Grasping it firmly with both hands, he quickly wrenched if from the
stones in which it was mortised, and leapt to the ground. “Forgive me,” he
decided to say at last, and his voice had a little quiver of emotion, and he laid his
hand on hers upon her knee. 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. He stood away from her. ”
“You would marry a divorcée?” she asked. Enough to
let her find out a piece of information most urgent. They unloaded Michelle’s
sleeping parents who had been propped up in the back
seat, necks craned against each other. The less said, therefore, on this point the better;
because, as nothing is to be gained by it, it would only be trouble thrown away. We have him as safe as a linnet in a cage; and could wring
his neck round as easily. Rats and things crawling all over. Taber? There is a possibility. “No,” she
answered, reluctantly.
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