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. It was a castoff of Shari’s from her brief obsession with sewing. En tout cas, we are not talking of that kiss, but of this one. “I really owe him something of an apology. I have one shilling and sevenpence halfpenny left. It appeared he had already ordered dinner and wine, and the whiskered waiter waved in his subordinate with the soup forthwith. The scent of cloying pine dust filled the air as floodlights shone eerily through the jungle gym of new wood. ” She replied. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.
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