All alone; and nobody cared whether he
lived or died. ”
“Pretty name. May I do so to-day?”
“It’s your gate,” she said, amiably; “you got it first. ’ He nodded in the
direction of her pistol. Her face scarcely reflected his enthusiasm. ”
“It’s an unrest—a longing—What’s that?” The waiter had intervened. I can’t do it even decently myself, and I
dare not run the risk of ruining all my clothes. We do not remember to have met with a single individual, reported
to be under petticoat government, who was not content with his lot,—nay, who
so far from repining, did not exult in his servitude; and we see no way of
accounting for this apparently inexplicable conduct—for which, among other
phenomena of married life, various reasons have been assigned, though none
entirely satisfactory to us—except upon the ground that these domineering
dames possess some charm sufficiently strong to counteract the irritating effect
of their tempers; some secret and attractive quality of which the world at large is
in ignorance, and with which their husbands alone can be supposed to be
acquainted. One day her mother swept into the bedroom of the
family townhouse, sweeping across the floor with a
bundle in her arms. 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. It’s not far from twilight. “I cannot conceive,” he said, “how any other occupation could ever have
occurred to you.
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