She had to think of something fast, or her
reaction would start to make believers out of everyone. On coming to himself, he found he had been wrapped in a blanket and
put to bed with a couple of hot bricks to his feet. “I don’t know,” said Ann Veronica; “I think I am. It was a moment or two before Gerald realised that he could feel the
fluttering of her pulse beneath the light touch he had on her wrist, and that her
fingers were trembling in his. She wormed her way past Sebastian, glanced at her
mother’s blackened face, her obscenely naked body
bulging with yellow and black buboes under the arms and
in the groin that oozed stinking fluid. “I see nothing of my sister,” she said. "The poor young man!" she said. "
"I was educated in America. But the love of life
prevailed over his fears. 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. Crossing them, he ascended an eminence, which, from its singular shape,
seems to have been the site of a Roman encampment, and which commands a
magnificent prospect. Wood
and Thames taking their places on either side of it, and Jack at a little distance
behind. It may here be mentioned that this gate,
destined to bequeath its name—a name, which has since acquired a terrible
significance,—to every successive structure erected upon its site, was granted, in
1400, by charter by Henry the Sixth to the citizens of London, in return for their
royal services, and thenceforth became the common jail to that city and the
county of Middlesex. ”
“I borrowed it,” said Ann Veronica in a casual tone, with white despair in her
heart.
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