” A momentary bitterness crept into Anna’s tone. 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. ’ ‘Don’t be too sure,’ said Miss Froxfield darkly, with a mischievous glance at her betrothed. ‘Bête,’ she flung at him. She was, by certain signs, charged with anger, but she saw upon the faces of these two young fools the look of angels and an ineffable kindness breathed upon her withered heart. Kneebone," she added, with a glance at that gentleman, which was meant to speak daggers, "will do as he pleases. ” “But what are you going to do—where are you going to live?” Annabel asked. ‘For instance, why have you reverted to your nun’s habit for this particular adventure?’ ‘That is easy. ‘You are rude, and stupide, and altogether a person with whom I do not wish to speak. She glanced into her companion’s face, and she saw there strange things. Very likely you will disapprove highly of what I have done—I wonder? You may, perhaps, think I have done it just in a fit of childish petulance because my father locked me in when I wanted to go to a ball of which he did not approve. He came as an agreeable diversion from an insoluble perplexity. Why must her old nurse discover her precisely at this moment? ‘What are you at now, may I ask?’ Martha glared at the footman.
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