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. Stanley and his sister into a taxicab, and had waved an amiable farewell from the pavement steps. "Thames!—Thames!" cried Winifred, rushing to the window. ” He looked at her intently. . Cosette sat under the table, still as a mouse, fondling her pitiful doll. Last time I left home I felt as hard as nails. It’s kind of the World War II thing. " Amazed at the boy's assurance, Wood left off boxing his ears for a moment, and, looking at him steadfastly, said in a grave tone, "Jack, Jack, you'll come to be hanged!" "Better be hanged than hen-pecked," retorted the lad with a malicious grin. Ruth shivered; she was cold. ” “Yes, yes. "My child!" he groaned faintly. I had to sell out, you see, when my father died, for the estate is in my hands. His own heart was too full of melancholy foreboding. As for this infatuation—it’s like some obsession, some magic thing laid upon you.
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