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 did not quarrel with Rowland's profusion, for his own revenues were ample; but he did object to the large sums lavished by him in the service of a faction he was resolved not to support. " "Infernally provoking!" echoed Langley. 13 with a latchkey went humming lightly up to her room. “Annabel,” she said, “you are my sister, or I would bid you take the flowers if you care for them, and leave the room. What happened between Ruth and her father that made him hurry off without passing ordinary courtesies with me?" "I suppose I ought to tell you," said Spurlock; "but it is understood that Ruth shall never know the truth. He forgot for the moment his own self-pity, the egotism of his own passionate love. It is a precaution merely. . To a woman she might have confided; but to this man, kindly as he was, it was unthinkable. “And yet you still live, Butterfly. “And now tell me, please, how you eloped from Morningside Park. Then for a time she forgot the Fadden affair altogether. Or run me through. Michelle was sounding alarm bells everywhere in Lucy’s brain, but Lucy felt the pull of a 188 greater inertia, the urge to stay put so strong that to deny it was to deny the existence of gravity.
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