“Miss Pellissier,” he said, “I don’t understand this change in you. " "Aye, music hits them. She was flushed, and her eyes were bright and angry; her breath came sobbing, and her hair was all abroad in wandering strands of black. " "I do not doubt it," returned Jack; "none but those who have experienced it can understand the miseries of imprisonment. 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. “I feel justified then,” he said, “in annexing his chair. Think—think of that engagement!” Their talk had come to eloquent silences that contradicted all he had to say. "What is it?" "Can't you see? Together, down there; you and I!… As my wife! Both of us, never to be lonely again!… Will you marry me, Ruth?" As many a wiser woman had done, Ruth mistook thrilling eagerness for love. "Good work. Secretly she was gratified to be assigned to the rôle of an old traveller. "Get up, mother," cried Jack; "do not kneel to him.
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