No doubt they've all been rejected; but he couldn't throw them overboard. 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. “What a hypocrite you are. ‘What is it that you told him?’ ‘Nothing, miss, I swear. ” “She doesn’t care for him now?” “Not a bit. ToC Twelve years! How many events have occurred during that long interval! how many changes have taken place! The whole aspect of things is altered. You yourself, I am sure, recognize how impossible you have made it for me now to do anything of the sort. “Why come after me after all these years, Sebastianus? Haven’t you found any sycophants to convert, any nubile young nymphets to bring into the cannibal flock?” “Why should I do that if there is still the chance of you?” “What if there could be no chance of me? How do you know you can have me?” “I see your game. “I always get off here and lean over that rail for a bit.
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