’ While he trod a deliberate path through the pink saloon towards the door, Gerald encouraged a flow of harmless chatter about the people Madame had met and the parties she had attended. 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. She must not tell Martha about Gerald. Wonderful! The water, dripping from you, must have looked like pearls. She hated it, she hated the mission-house; she hated the sleek lagoon, the palms, the burning sky. And then scratched it out and wrote instead, “Gérard”. Manning,” she said, “I warned you not to idealize me. In this way, more than a month passed over. Immediately the soldiers of the major will come from the gate. By and by he ventured to peer into this window. ‘C’est ridicule. The doleful procession at once assumed a festive character. ‘As to that, I am at this moment altogether displeased with Gérard, you understand,’ Melusine temporised. “Why did you lie to that man?” he asked fiercely.
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