’
‘But that would make her half French,’ Hilary pointed out. ”
“Thank you, Jane. 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 chair was then rapidly put in motion, and speedily disappeared. She watched
them sleep for what seemed hours from the high window
until her body grew colder than the stone sill she perched
upon. He had meant to be master of his fate that evening
and it had escaped him altogether. ‘Don’t concern yourself.
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