When you reach San Francisco, you can buy something more appropriate." It occurred to the spinster to ask: "Have you ever seen a fashion magazine ?" "No.

Sometimes we had the _Illustrated London News_ and _Tit-Bits._ Sailors would leave them at the trader's." "Alice in Wonderland!" cried Prudence, perhaps a little enviously.
"Oh, I've read that!" Spurlock had heard distinctly enough all of this odd conversation; but until the spinster's reference to the family album, no phrase had been sufficient in strength of attraction to break the trend of his own unhappy thoughts.

Out of an old family album: here was the very comparison that had eluded him.

His literary instincts began to stir.

A South Sea island girl, and this was her first adventure into civilization.