Nevertheless, she was still fighting. Tell me all
that happened, one sister-woman to another. 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. The sing-song girls in Hong-Kong
are far handsomer. Then her
head disappeared suddenly in her hands, and her shoulders shook violently. Towards this box Sharples directed his steps, and, unlocking a hatch in the door,
disclosed a recess scarcely as large, and certainly not as clean, as a dog-kennel. ”
“In a minute, in a minute,” he answered, his eyes fixed upon Anna. "
By this time, the chair had been brought into the Lodge. But when Ruth's hand fell gently upon his bony head, he knew that
no one in this house would ever offer him a kick.
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