‘I am entirely English. " "I don't understand you," replied Kneebone, in some confusion. "Much that I would willingly forget. 2. You know my fixed determination. Why had he kissed her? What had led him into that? Neither love nor passion— utter blankness so far as reducing the act to terms. There is some deep treachery hidden beneath his words. " "But how in the Lord's name was she brought up? There's a queer story back of this somewhere. " "I feel I have, dear Winny!" replied Thames, abashed at his own rudeness; "my conduct is inexcusable. 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.
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