“What is the good of pretending?” she said. While they were thus occupied, a maid-servant entered the room, and stated that a person was without who had a packet for Captain Darrell, which must be delivered into his own hands. His salvation—if there was to be any—lay in her ignorance of life. Wild wishes to keep a man out of the way, he'll speedily find the means to do so. Every window, from the groundfloor to the garret had its occupant, and the roofs were covered with spectators. “You ARE a female thing at bottom,” he admitted. 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. " "The very face," exclaimed Gay, advancing to look at it;—"with all the escapes written in it.
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