How little he
knew about Ruth—the background from which she had sprung! He knew that
her father was a missioner, that her mother was dead, that she had been born on
this island, and that, at the time of his collapse, she had been on the way to an
aunt in the States. He had fallen off when trying to tie down his
aluminum paint ladder. A fortnight passed, then a month. But I see now. He seemed to possess infinite reserves of patience
when she refused him or purposely tried to bait and anger
him, but his patience only made him seem more sinister. “Don’t you think I ought to?” she
asked, very submissively. ‘Well, that depends. “Where were you?”
He inquired, rubbing her
shoulders. It began in the eyes and spread to the lips:
warm, embracing, even fatherly. "You are not. “Michelle, don’t do this. Why should God give particular attention to such a
prayer, when He had ignored all others? Certainly there was a trap somewhere. Before retracing his steps, however, he allowed his gaze to range
over the vast and beautiful prospect spread out beneath him, which is now
hidden, from the traveller's view by the high walls of the General Cemetery, and
can, consequently, only be commanded from the interior of that attractive place
of burial,—and which, before it was intersected by canals and railroads, and
portioned out into hippodromes, was exquisite indeed. At the least,
the tales had the ability to make her forget where she was; which was something
in their favour. At the bottom of her heart she was not
a bit afraid of Ramage.
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