CHAPTER XXIII Next morning Ruth did not refer to the episode on the sands of the lagoon. Buck up. I must provide for my safety. In mailing the tales he had not enclosed return postage or the equivalent in money. The youth of them! And what was he going to do when they left his island? What would Donald McClintock be doing with himself, when youth left the island, never more to return? Ruth was thrilling with joy. That's the kind, my friend, that always fall soft. An unexpected vacancy, wasn’t it? Every one comes in on unexpected vacancy. The chief of these was a figure of Liberty, with a cat at her feet, in allusion to the supposed origin of the fortunes of its former founder, Sir Richard Whittington. She was an indignant queen, no doubt she was alarmed and disgusted within limits; but she was highly excited, and there was something, some low adventurous strain in her being, some element, subtle at least if base, going about the rioting ways and crowded insurgent meeting-places of her mind declaring that the whole affair was after all—they are the only words that express it—a very great lark indeed. Wood's reply, if he intended any, was cut short by a loud knocking at the door. Ah, these English! They travelled all over, up and down the world, not to acquire information but rather to leave the impress of their superiority as a race. With a well-simulated unconcern and a heightened color she finished her breakfast. And I am grateful to you.
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