The evenings were beginning to draw out, and it would not be dark for an hour. ‘I should not dream of forcing my attentions on you. 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. You must think of this evening, John, sometimes—as a sort of atonement. An inarticulate instinct which now found expression. "'You've a long journey before you. “You promised faithfully to be there,” he said slowly. And I think I must pursue my acquaintance with the fulsome Madame Valade. I am an old friend, and I declined to be shelved. "I'll tell you why," he said. He shut his eyes and groped for the wall to steady himself, wondering if this bit of mummery would get over. And you talk like that! What the devil have you been up to, to land in this bog?" It was a cast at random. Wood, you shan't lord it over me, I can promise you. That's how I finally got wind of it. "My mother is avenged.
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