"Tell me, what did they call you ?" "Well, the old Kanaka cook used to call me the Golden One, but the natives called me the Dawn Pearl." "The Dawn Pearl! Odd, but we white folks aren't half so poetical as the yellow or the black.

What did you do when your father went on trips to other islands ?" "Took off my shoes and stockings and played in the lagoon." "He made you wear shoes and stockings ?" "Always." "What else did you do when alone ?" "I read the encyclopaedia.

That is how I learned that there were such things as novels.

Books! Aren't they wonderful ?" The blind alley of life stretching out before her, with its secret doorways and hidden menaces; and she was unconcerned.

Books; an inexplicable hunger to be satisfied.