“I don’t see,” gasped Ann Veronica, “why parents and children. In Europe or in America people would have smiled; but in Singapore—the half-way port of the world—where a human kaleidoscope tumbles continuously east and west, no one had remarked her. Once a sick sailor drew three pictures for me and set down every stay and brace and sail—square-rigger, schooner, and sloop. Breakfast, too, was an impossible occasion. But the restraint exercised by her instinctive delicacy was very great; over and above coarse or sexual matters it covered religion and politics and any mention of money matters or crime, and Ann Veronica found herself wondering whether these exclusions represented, after all, anything more than suppressions. "Shall I fetch the light, Captain?" whispered Blueskin. Just as the attendants were preparing to lower the corpse into the earth, Jack fell on his knees beside the coffin, uttering the wildest exclamations of grief, reproaching himself with the murder of his mother, and invoking the vengeance of Heaven on his own head. Wood grasped his companion's arm to attract his attention to this unexpected means of escape. Otherwise, every effort has been made to remain true to the author's words and intent. She had never been "My child" or "My dear"; always her name—Ruth.
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