ToC
In an incredibly short space of time,—for her anxiety lent wings to her feet,—
Mrs. ‘Soi-disant? Then he is not Valade?’
‘How can I know?’ she countered crossly. The arrested women were herded in a passage of the Panton Street
Police-station that opened upon a cell too unclean for occupation, and most of
them spent the night standing. "
"Pearls!"
"Sounds romantic, eh? Well, forty years ago the pearl game hereabouts was
romantic; but there's only one real pearl region left—the Persian Gulf. 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. ”
“Poor you!” said Ann Veronica. . A certain irritation crept into his manner as he did
so. He next searched for his stockings and shoes, and
when found, put them on. You have grown into my life, and I cannot tear you out. . CHAPTER III.
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