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“You and I and Brendon get on all right, don’t we?” Sydney objected. In doing this, he chanced to raise his eyes and
half fancied he beheld, shaded by a pillar at the extremity of the western aisle,
the horrible countenance of the thief-taker. ”
Then she fell to thinking about her aunt. Something forbade him to draw her toward him and seal the compact with a kiss. I never even burrowed down into the trunk. 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. Whoever this might be, the
visit seemed to have some reference to the carpenter, for, shortly afterwards,
Sharples made his appearance, and informed the captives they were free. He
felt that he might soon be separated—perhaps, for ever—from the fond little
creature he held in his arms, whom he had always regarded with the warmest
fraternal affection, and the thought of how much she would suffer from the
separation so sensibly affected him, that he could not help joining in her grief. Nervously he pulled alongside the dilapidated oncewhite farmhouse. They had asked her to come to the first of the two great
annual Fadden Dances, the October one, and Ann Veronica had accepted with
enthusiasm.
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