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But suppose she merely said: "I'm sorry," handed over his coat, and continued to read her magazine. That would end it. And it mustn't end until he found out why she had emerged...

As he came out of his cabin, the sun hung low and red above the palm forest, and a few bats were already flying like tiny black devils above the scrub.

"I'm sorry, Miss Sandys," he said. "Only a few hours ago did I learn who it was camping here on the Causeway. And--I'm afraid I know why you are here.... Because the same reason...

"Your circumstances, with all their attendant horrors, are my own," she began. "I, also, since last night, inhabit a picturesque but most horrid bungalow not very far from here;...

"I don't know--oh, I really don't know," she said, her blue eyes wide with apprehension. "All I know is that I do not desire to see him--or to have him see me.... He _must_ not...

"I haven't very much to say," she said. "Only--to learn any art or trade or profession it is necessary to work at it unremittingly. But to discuss it never helped anybody."

As the minutes passed it became plain to White that the girl found the dingy little volume exceedingly interesting. And after a while she appeared to be completely absorbed in i...

"It was the first thing that I have ever been permitted to do all by myself. It meant so much to me.... And I wished to have a little record of it--even if you think it is of no...

She was lying on the bed when a relay of servants staggered in bearing gaudy piles of the most recent and popular novels, and placed them in tottering profusion upon the adjacen...

He studied her lovely face coolly and in detail--the dainty arch of the questioning eyebrows, the sensitive curve of the mouth, the clear, sweet eyes. Could it be possible that...

While she inspected him, several unrelated ideas passed through her head; she thought he was very much sunburned and that his hatless head was attractive, with its short yellow...

So he began his first great novel--"The Unquiet Sex"--and he made heavy weather of it that autumn--what with contributing to the literary atmosphere every afternoon and evening...

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"It comes perfectly natural to me to take a v-very v-vivid interest in you," he said. "What with snakes and scorpions and wood-ticks and unboiled water and the actinic rays of t...