”
“I plead guilty, Miss Pellissier,” he answered at once. She recovered herself, however, with amazing
facility. She pulled herself together and put her eye to the eye-piece. He did not
stagger in the least. She had never before heard the noise of firecrackers, and
in the beginning the sputtering racket caused her to wince. Come down with me to the Lodge directly. 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. “My dear Vee!” Her voice became very low. But he could only discern a black and shapeless mass, floating upon the
water at a little distance, which, to his bewildered fancy, appeared absolutely
standing still. The events that had initially followed in the wake of her triumph over Emile
Gosse had quite confused and dazed her. ” Lucy
looked at the small shelf which was jammed with thick
paperbacks by every major horror novelist of the
twentieth century. She savored the
sweetness of his lips, all of his great youth and passion
and longed for his innocence, his complete lack of the
knowledge of terrible things.
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