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“That is another French custom,” he remarked, “which is not so agreeable. Some day, when the rewards of literature permit the arduous research
required, the Campaign of the Women will find its Carlyle, and the particulars of
that marvellous series of exploits by which Miss Brett and her colleagues nagged
the whole Western world into the discussion of women’s position become the
material for the most delightful and amazing descriptions. While the strife
raged between the principals, the watermen in the larger wherry were occupied
in stemming the force of the torrent, and endeavouring to keep the boats, they
had lashed together, stationary. His interest was divided: while his ears drank
in the sounds, his glance constantly roved from Ruth to the performer and back
to Ruth. Ms. . Then he would turn his face to her, and she would have to think of
herself in his eyes. Something has changed her tremendously. I have been thinking these things over
lately, and it seems to me that marriage for a girl is just the supremest thing in
life. . 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 thought he was in Newgate.
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