" "What do you require further?" asked Jonathan. ” “You cannot play at hide-and-seek with this creature all your life,” he answered. "Weigh anchor, Van!" he shouted to the skipper, "and consult your despatches. As she talked she made weak little gestures with her hands, and she thrust her face forward from her bent shoulders; and she peered sometimes at Ann Veronica and sometimes at a photograph of the Axenstrasse, near Fluelen, that hung upon the wall. The supreme effect for Ann Veronica was its surpassing relevance; it made every other atmosphere she knew seem discursive and confused. Queer old gentleman! The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge. ‘She ought to be. She was a lone white woman, therefore marked. He was a business man, pure and simple, his eyes were fastened always upon the practical side of life. " "At your peril, sirrah!" cried Wood. " "She cannot stay here," the manager declared. But it would serve. 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. The thousand voices which a few moments before had been so clamorous were now hushed.
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