' We must not omit to
mention that a family group from the pencil of little Winifred, representing Mr. Instinctively she had fallen into the posture of the poster,
her hands behind her, her head bent slightly forward, her chin uplifted, her eyes
bright with the drollery of the song. 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. Passing the old rectory, and still older church, with its reverend screen of trees,
and slowly ascending a hill side, from whence he obtained enchanting peeps of
the spire and college of Harrow, he reached the cluster of well-built houses
which constitute the village of Neasdon. Living’s just material. In the meanwhile, as he talked, he scrutinized her face, ran his
eyes over her careless, gracious poise, wondered hard about her. She would buy a Greyhound ticket to
New Orleans, make a kill or two, then travel into Texas
and seduce some wandering man into taking her to
Mexico, feast upon him once they got there. ’
Charvill eyed the girl with resentment. ”
“No you’re not. At last I tried a dramatic agent, and got on the
music hall stage. Distress, deep-rooted, and age old. ’
‘So you think she is an émigré?’ Lucilla put in before the incensed Roding
could respond. "
"Never!" replied the woollen-draper; "and if that treacherous rascal, by your
side, doesn't make himself scarce quickly, I'll send a bullet through his brain.
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