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. ” She leaned forward for another kiss, which he responded to. He walked her home. He saw that she was tense. Along the inner side was a wonderfully arranged series of displayed specimens that Russell himself had prepared. Sheppard did not dare to return any answer; but, disengaging herself from his embrace, endeavoured meekly to comply with his request. Gerald’s voice came back to her, saying that she could not hope to outwit “a man who means business”. Youth finds it pleasant sometimes to be melancholy. To divide the agony into two spheres so that one would mitigate the other.
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