”
She shook her head deliberately, hopelessly. Can't I make you understand? Perhaps it sounds
cruel to you; but we women often have to be cruel defensively. 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. But whatever she may have said was lost as Gerald pinned her to the wall, the
point of the sword at her throat. He added, ‘Also others, but I don’t recall them. ’
The expression on Emile Gosse’s face was vicious under the smile. Heard voices. The moment I entered the room, and found you a prisoner in the hands
of Jonathan Wild, I guessed how matters stood, and acted accordingly. He beheld the grey tower of Willesden Church, embosomed in its grove of trees,
now clothed, in all the glowing livery of autumn. You are not going to that infidel Russell’s classes.
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