She wore a plain black dress, reaching almost to her throat—her small oval face, with the large brown eyes, was colourless, delicately expressive, yet with something mysterious in its Sphinx-like immobility. It would be easy enough for me to write an eloquent letter about something else. Do not mistake me. Before the question could be answered, a side-door was opened, and a very handsome woman of Amazonian proportions presented herself, and marched familiarly up to Mr. ‘I know her, ma’am, but I know next to nothing of her story. I have it on my conscience that I offended you—” “Offended me when?” “I’ve been haunted by the memory of you. Lucy collapsed to the floor in a sob. 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 boy had all kinds of opportunity; but it's the old story of father making it too easy. I find it impossible to associate you with—my little friend of the ‘Ambassador’s. He was only a younger son, and you know what trouble we had.
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