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Manning. I—In fact, I dislike him extremely. 15 <3> A MARRIAGE, PART ONE School was winding down. 1. “I see the difficulty. The odds were astounding and yet he had it bad. Balanced on his nose were enormous tortoise-shell spectacles. ” Michelle shrugged. 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. There was a trader—a man who bought copra and pearls. But always this new phase in life which civilization called convention threw up barrier after barrier. He smothered it down with such a good will that the reaction set his heart to pounding. The wound lay open for five seconds, and then closed neatly as if it had been stitched by invisible hands. Capes was inclined to support Miss Klegg until Miss Garvice cornered him by quoting him against himself, and citing a recent paper in the Nineteenth Century, in which, following Atkinson, he had made a vigorous and damaging attack on Lester Ward’s case for the primitive matriarchate and the predominant importance of the female throughout the animal kingdom. White looked mysteriously about the room as though to be sure that no one was listening.
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