’
‘She told you!’
‘And,’ pursued Gerald, ignoring his friend’s scornful interjection, ‘that it was
not always convenient to be dressed as a young girl. Courtlaw is looking after you, Miss Pellissier,” she said. "
"O Jack, dear, dear Jack!" cried Mrs. A glance satisfied Jonathan that
the turnkey was not aware of the prisoner's escape; and he resolved not to
destroy what he considered a good jest, by a premature disclosure of it. Every now and then her general presence became radiantly dazzling
in his eyes; she would appear in the street coming toward him, a surprise, so fine
and smiling and welcoming was she, so expanded and illuminated and living, in
contrast with his mere expectation. But his daughter might well have a
claim. A
cat came and rubbed herself against him as he entered the house, and seemed by
her mewing to ask him for food. . While the watermen were contending with the eddies
occasioned by the fall below the bridge, Jonathan observed a perceptible shudder
run through Trenchard's frame. Oriental rugs adorned the sea of shiny
hardwood floors, kept polished with an eye for detail that
bordered on Japanese. 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.
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