“A ballot-box, you know,” he said, “is very largely just a box. Supposing Ah Cum's luck failed for once?
The manager made a gesture of dismissal, and added up the bill for the Misses
Jedson, who were returning to Hong-Kong in the morning. 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. ” Lucy instructed. “You little wretch!” she exclaimed weakly. ’
Noting the twinkle in her great-aunt’s eye, Melusine forebore to comment,
grateful to Lucilla for adjuring Captain Roding to give an account of himself. “Let’s go. . The house was full of aunts, uncles, and
cousins meandering about, stuffed until their seams and
zippers were bursting.
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