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. I saw their boat swept away, and heard the
roar of the fall beneath the bridge; and no one, who was present, could doubt the
result. It was Ramage, the occupant of the big
house at the end of the Avenue. It isn’t sentiment but it’s horse sense. ”
She said, knowing that his kindness was certainly not the
primary motivation for his magnum opus. ” She said. Looked all over
that dratted convent of yours—or at least Trodger and the men did so—but no
sign of them. People who would not go. She was not afraid exactly, but there was that about her
loneliness to-night she distrusted. It has been already intimated that Jack had an
excessive passion for finery; and it might have been added, that the chief part of
his ill-gotten gains was devoted to the embellishment of his person. But he was destined to have every tide of feeling
awakened—every wound opened. As this had been Mrs. ”
“It’s impossible. "
"But I was intoxicated!"
"So was the man you just fought in this room.
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