"No more, please! I am bewildered enough. “Lucy, do you forgive me?”
She looked at him in earnest. 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. I’m sorry to
disappoint you. . In response to an almost imperative gesture from the
nurse, Anna laid her hand upon his. They had been so considerate of the earth
they had touched that they barely left a footprint. Part 2
In the late afternoon, as Ann Veronica was gathering flowers for the dinnertable, her father came strolling across the lawn toward her with an affectation of
great deliberation. I thought it
was a mirror at the first, for it was so very like myself. She was not afraid exactly, but there was that about her
loneliness to-night she distrusted. The operation was effected with so much rapidity and so
little noise, that even if any one had been on the alert, he could scarcely have
detected it.
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