He liked to draw her in, and
she did her best to talk. He fancied that
when they had had time to reflect, they would regret it still more. “You are magnificent,” she said, “but the steel of your truth is a little
oversharpened. m. Two persons, besides the clergyman and sexton,
alone attended the ceremony. ”
“And you knew, of course, that we were old friends?”
“Indeed!”
“Lady Ferringhall, I love your sister. I wouldn't keep an apprentice to set my authority at
defiance. Her knees
almost sank beneath her as she raised the latch of the front door and looked out. “Of course,” she said diffidently, “this is a boarding-house, although we never
take in promiscuous travellers. 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. He began munching his water-chestnuts—a small brown radish-shaped
vegetable, with the flavour of coconut—that grow along the river brims. As it was, the
mob went on alternately hooting and huzzaing as the names of Wild and
Sheppard were pronounced, while some individuals, bolder than the rest, thrust
their faces into the coach-window, and assured Jack that he should never be
taken to Tyburn.
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