I am a physician first, which
gives the man in me a secondary part. The dress of this person was excessively
showy, and consisted of a scarlet riding-habit, lined and faced with blue, and
bedizened with broad gold lace, a green silk-knit waistcoat, embroidered with
silver, and decorated with a deep fringe, together with a hat tricked out in the
same gaudy style. ‘Not at all
ladylike. 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. ‘Gerald had to change
both shirt and breeches. It was always jabbing him with white-hot barbs, waking or sleeping. You won't have him long. Ruth will
be a gold mine for a man of your peculiar bent. “You certainly are. Went up to Somerset House to examine the will before he did it. ‘I can’t help but be sure,’ he returned shortly. After a while one began
to talk.
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