” Michelle’s tone grew livelier and
more excited. 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. But one could not count with
any confidence upon Capes. Half a day had turned the corner of the hours; and Ah Cum admitted that this girl
puzzled him. Perhaps, as you say, I do not really care—but I cannot do
it. "Ja," replied the skipper. . ”
“And besides, when it comes to the idea of queens,” Ann Veronica went on,
“there’s twenty-one and a half million women to twenty million men. Finding remonstrances of
no avail, he had recourse to threats; and when threats failed, he adopted more
decided measures. ”
“It isn’t precisely faults,” said Ann Veronica.
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