“And somehow or other,” she added, after a long interval, “I must pay Mr. They had got all this down already—they
heard the substance of it now for the fourteenth time. "
"Bah!" ejaculated Marvel, gruffly. She was amazed that at over sixhundred years old that she could miss her parents so
bitterly. “I suppose I ought to congratulate you,” he said. CHAPTER XXII. It
did seem in so many ways exactly what Ramage said it was—the sensible thing
to do. Then go
and fetch this daughter of yourn. 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. “Either I want to shout,” said Mr. Here was the same Ruth who had left him a few minutes
since: the same outwardly; and yet…!
On the ninth day Spurlock was up and about; that is, he was strong enough to
walk alone, from the companion to his chair, to lean upon the rail when the chair
grew irksome, to join Ruth and his employer at lunch and dinner: strong enough
to argue about books, music, paintings. Lucy marveled at the billiards table
and the sauna.
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