It was rigged up for the occasion as it has been many a time before. 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. " "No; it is only—what shall I say?—troubled. " "Thames!" "Have I said anything to offend you?" "Oh! no. She took the tray with both hands, gulped, and gave way to tears. \"But you are so beautiful. She had been obliged to spend the night in that fateful bedchamber, the faithful Kimble—who had foraged at a nearby inn, bringing back a large pie and a jug of porter for his mistress—guarding the door outside. "Then, of course, you must know. ’ ‘Damnation!’ Gerald burst out, crossing towards her. Wood; "and I did so to see how far your effrontery would carry you. If I were a clean, free man—We’ll have to talk of all these things. "Oh! we've lost no time, as you perceive," replied Jack. But here was new music, tender and kindly and whimsical, that first roved to and fro in the mind and then cuddled up in the heart. There was first the Avenue, which ran in a consciously elegant curve from the railway station into an undeveloped wilderness of agriculture, with big, yellow brick villas on either side, and then there was the pavement, the little clump of shops about the postoffice, and under the railway arch was a congestion of workmen’s dwellings. She recoiled.
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