The audience clapped more
heartily. Leonardo he was my—’
‘Don’t say it,’ Gerald cut in hoarsely. But heavens, I must pack!”
She sprang to her feet and disappeared in the room beyond, from which she
emerged a few minutes later with flushed cheeks and dishevelled hair. Gosse would have killed me, and
perhaps in the fight I might kill him. 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 was in one of her old
walking-dresses, her hair was done in an unfamiliar manner, she wore a
wedding-ring, and she looked as if she had been crying. ’
‘But, no,’ cried Melusine anxiously. "Miss Enschede, you're seven kinds of a brick!"
"A brick?"
He chuckled.
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