To be free of outward distraction, he
shut his eyes and concentrated upon the scraps she had given him; and shortly,
with his eyes still closed, he began to describe Ruth's island: the mountain at one
end, with the ever-recurring scarves of mist drifting across the lava-scarred face;
the jungle at the foot of it; the dazzling border of white sand; the sprawling store
of the trader and the rotting wharf, sundrily patched with drift-wood; the native
huts on the sandy floor of the palm groves; the scattered sandalwood and ebony;
the screaming parakeets in the plantains; the fishing proas; the mission with its
white washed walls and barren frontage; the lagoon, fringed with coco palms,
now ruffled emerald, now placid sapphire. The night was now advancing, and the party began to think of separating. Arrived in the plantation she sat down with her back against a tree trunk. But his gloom appeared to be occasioned
by remorse, rather than sorrow. ‘I never met a rat what wandered about the place with a lantern, I didn’t,’
grumbled the old lodgekeeper aggrievedly. As soon as he was gone, the two women divested themselves of their hoods and
cloaks, and threw them, as if inadvertently, into the farthest part of the angle in
the wall. A home MAY be a sort of cage, but still—it’s a home. She detected that the young officer’s
shoulders tensed whenever she moved in the back of his
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car. ” He met her questioning eye, and repeated,
“Oh! it IS a success. F. He told some of the particulars. ”
“Act two,” she continued. He then said that if
she would not obey him in this course she should “never darken his doors
again,” and was, indeed, frightfully abusive.
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