"There's the house," said Jack, pointing to a pretty cottage, the small wooden
porch of which was covered with roses and creepers, with a little trim garden in
front of it. 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. ‘She?’
‘Damnation!’ He saw her frown, and added at once, ‘I beg your pardon,
ma’am. ”
“Then come back. ’
A strangled sob escaped her as his thumb dug cruelly into the soft flesh of her
wrist. Well, that’s the situation. If ever I could bring myself to ask you any favour, I would ask you to forget
even as I have forgotten. ’
He stopped suddenly, dismay creeping into his face. “They would spoil every chance. Fell to sin, did Martha. . He's nice. ”
“I wish you good luck,” she answered. “Serves you right if I’d cracked your skull. His hunger satisfied, his spirits began to
revive, and with this change of mood all his natural audacity returned.
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