168 < 20 > HISTORY OF AN ABDUCTION She had not seen him for hundreds of years. ” It was nearly half an hour before they dared ask him the question. . "He does," replied Kneebone, "and, what is more surprising, it seems to increase. See how he gets on, father," he added, appealing to Wood: "the box seems to grow under his hands. To be free of outward distraction, he shut his eyes and concentrated upon the scraps she had given him; and shortly, with his eyes still closed, he began to describe Ruth's island: the mountain at one end, with the ever-recurring scarves of mist drifting across the lava-scarred face; the jungle at the foot of it; the dazzling border of white sand; the sprawling store of the trader and the rotting wharf, sundrily patched with drift-wood; the native huts on the sandy floor of the palm groves; the scattered sandalwood and ebony; the screaming parakeets in the plantains; the fishing proas; the mission with its white washed walls and barren frontage; the lagoon, fringed with coco palms, now ruffled emerald, now placid sapphire. They went to the gate and stopped there, gabbed with their men, and didn’t even dismount. If she could not marry him, she would not marry any one. "Why, what the devil would you have had me do!—make myself scarce, eh? You should have tipped me the wink. "Confusion!" he cried; "something has happened. Ah! I shall never forget the figure Jack cut on that occasion. "Be still!" "Oh, come along! I've just got to have my muck bath. “I know,” she said quietly, “that Paris, where she has been so much admired, is not a good place for her. "By G—! she has missed her footing.
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