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. Yet you make our Bohemianism
seem like a vulgar thing. Except he
was the only idiot who would stay. She moved a little nearer to him. "What motive have you for concealment?" he demanded. Wearied at
length with thinking on the past, and terrified by the prospect of the future, he
threw himself on the straw with which the cage was littered, and endeavoured to
compose himself to slumber. . I believed I was strong enough to go on in silence; but I'm
human like everybody else. The man was my husband. Paris is not the place for two young girls. Which is the nearest way
to the river?"
"Why, it's an awkward road to direct you," returned Jonathan. ”
He stopped and said earnestly: “It is the chief thing in life, and everything else
goes down before it.
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