All his interest in Ruth, all his care and solicitude, could now be translated into a single word—love. “Miss Pellissier,” he said, “don’t!” “Why not?” she asked, smiling. I would like to talk to you about this—soon. But let that verse tell my secret. She bathed frequently with ash and lye soap stolen from traders. She held it away from her with an instinctive repulsion, born of her unconquerable antipathy to the touch of strangers. It had been intensified and corrupted by time, as if to add insult to injury. 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. And I suppose it is too much to expect that any entirely English young lady would be prepared to tolerate me for the remainder of my life. Sheppard. Amongst others, Mr. "He will pull through?" "Positively.
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