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. On weighing the matter over, he grew so uneasy that he resolved to descend, and inform him of his misgivings. The world, she discovered, with these matters barred had no particular place for her at all, nothing for her to do, except a functionless existence varied by calls, tennis, selected novels, walks, and dusting in her father’s house. She tried not to pant, not to reveal herself, and she began to shake. Then instinct took over. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and research. . Nobody could possibly find him now. But as the mystery which surrounded Ruth fell away that which enveloped her father thickened.
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