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. He barely shook the rose petals from her
hair. All the money he earned—serving McClintock and the muse—could be
laid away. ’
Gerald stood back, and watched her cross the room to the closed French doors. It was so hopeless to put it to them. His subjects,
however, were no longer entirely under his control; and, though he managed to
enforce some little attention to his commands, it was evident his authority was
waning fast. Wood, you shan't lord it over me, I can
promise you. Manning displayed distress. Ireton rushed forward to open the
wicket for him. I think you are hard. ” She whispered. Ireton and his friends to taste it. What they do with him afterward is off my ticket, no concern of James
Boyle; they can lock him up or let him go.
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