The one fault, indeed, of this school of
fiction for him was that it had rather a light way with parental rights. He had had a crush on Lucy since she had
arrived, he seemed to find her attractive both for and
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despite her strangeness. Goopes’s: “Advanced people,” she said, with an air of great elucidation, “tend to
GENERALIZE love. The news that his granddaughter desired an audience
Lord Charvill had greeted with merely a grunt, which turned into a roar as his
gorge rose when he heard that she was accompanied by her husband. 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. They joined the rabble of aspiring James Deans in torn
jeans and bomber jackets and girls with Clairol black hair
smoking clove cigarettes. The woollen-draper looked
at his watch.
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