"Oh! you did, did you?" said the janizary. “In Paris our lives were far apart, and we
had seldom the same friends. ”
“Strongly,” said Mr. "The youth whom you delivered to Van Galgebrok,—Thames Darrell, is
returned. He carried a small bag. I do not ask if you are entirely English, but if you say truly when you
say you are at my service. 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. “I will tell you all that I know,” Anna said. He was a civil servant of some
standing, and after a previous conversation upon aesthetics of a sententious,
nebulous, and sympathetic character, he had sent her a small volume, which he
described as the fruits of his leisure and which was as a matter of fact rather
carefully finished verse. She had a gold watch, a
very good gold watch that had been her mother’s, a pearl necklace that was also
pretty good, some unpretending rings, some silver bangles and a few other such
inferior trinkets, three pounds thirteen shillings unspent of her dress and book
allowance and a few good salable books. . He taught her how to
read and write in Latin and Greek, often rewarding her
for her efforts with a flower or a trinket.
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