That shining
slope of snow, and how we talked of death! We might have died! Even when we
are old, when we are rich as we may be, we won’t forget the tune when we cared
nothing for anything but the joy of one another, when we risked everything for
one another, when all the wrappings and coverings seemed to have fallen from
life and left it light and fire. That was one of the
mysterious qualities of this child of the lagoon: she had always at instant service
that Oriental mask of impenetrable calm that no Occidental trick could dislodge. His first reaction had been explosive as the hurts of the past rose up to taunt him. And meanwhile, we’ll just have these no
doubt potentially lethal little claws of yours out of harm’s way. He smiled. . ‘Odds
were against it. And from that point they went on to a thoroughly embittering wrangle. Cased and ribbed with stone, and
braced with horizontal beams of timber, the piles, which formed the foundation
of these jetties, had resisted the strong encroachments of the current for
centuries. “For nothing, do you call it?” he declared. 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. We'll be upon the ban-dogs before they can shake their trotters!"
And the alarm was sounded more loudly than ever.
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