"Come with me to the Castle. Lucy stared at the girl for a long ten seconds, and then looked away. 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. His tongue was more ready, his wit more keen than usual. “I have no wish,” he said, “to altogether ignore the fact that you are my wife’s sister, and have therefore a certain claim upon me. He moved, after quiet intervals, with a quick little movement, and ever and again stroked his small mustache and coughed a selfconscious cough. To make Ruth pay for the whole shot! To wash away his sin by crucifying her: that was precisely what he had set about. . What had urged her to wrench loose and fly was the guarding instinct of the good woman. Gwen—I saw Gwen the other day, and the paint’s thicker than ever. They had turned into the street, on the opposite side of which were the flats where Anna lived.
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