” “It is my wish to be alone,” she said wearily. "So I think," replied Kneebone, again applying to the snuff-box, and by that means escaping the angry glance levelled at him by his companion. Gerald went through all the papers in front of Gosse and that woman of his, one by one. 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. ” The wedding-breakfast was for Ann Veronica a spectacle of the unreal consuming the real; she liked that part very well, until she was carelessly served against her expressed wishes with mayonnaise. It was she who had come out from the flat only a few minutes before. “Were you ever in love, aunt?” she asked. . ’ ‘Is it, now? Well you won’t, then, for he won’t hear nothing, missie. He opened the door for her with a faint disagreeable smile. “You look great, Lucy. " "You are interested?" "In a way, naturally. .
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