McClintock's astonishment merged into a state of mild hypnosis. 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. But a biddable girl. E below. Through all
he said ran one quality that pleased her—the quality of a man who feels that
things can be done, that one need not wait for the world to push one before one
moved. "You open it, Ruth. "
"Because he said he was a Yale man?"
"That might be it. ”
“She’s coming on,” said Capes. Of the vast mass of these impressions Ann Veronica could make nothing at the
time; there they were—Fact! She stored them away in a mind naturally retentive,
as a squirrel stores away nuts, for further digestion. “You are neither of you in the least
like the ordinary boarding-house young man.
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