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. You could not have aided and assisted us more effectively
by trying to drown yourself in the sea. “I didn’t know you were half-Gypsy
either. He looked the boy over with
interest. "Surely," she said, after a pause, "you don't attach any importance to what my
mother has just said. Gerald began to ease forward, deciding just how he would accost her. And then she came out into the street, sure only of one thing—that she could not
return directly to her lodgings. He'll
settle it bravely. "
"Let me have them. . .
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