But at the beginning of the affray, when he thought every one was too much occupied with his own concerns to remark his absence, he slipped out of the room, not for the purpose of avoiding the engagement (for cowardice was not one of his failings), but because he had another object in view. He knew that at this moment Ruth lay upon her bed in torment, for she was by nature tender; and the reaction of her scathing words, no matter how justifiable, would be putting scars on her soul. He saw her, dripping with rosy pearls, rise out of the lagoon in the dawn light: he saw her flashing to and fro among the coco palms in the moonshine: he saw her breasting the hurricane, her body as full of grace and beauty as the Winged Victory of the Louvre. “We will do Paris like the tourists, and thank God here comes dinner. Whenever you grow impatient with her, remember the folly of her father. He found Abraham on guard as he had left him. I came to beg you instead to do me the honour of becoming my wife. I shall still wear your favor—even if it is a stolen and forbidden favor—in my casque. \"Sure, I'd love to borrow some clothes for the night.
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