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. Sebastian began to maintain a harem. He was fast rising to an
eminence that no one of his nefarious profession ever reached before him, nor, it
is to be hoped, will ever reach again. He
had the appearance of a man who has known no rest for many nights. ”
“Oh, you mean Mr. "Remember the devil!" retorted Terence, who had recovered his natural audacity. "This young fool is come to
restore the article—whatever it may be—which Lady Trafford was anxious to
conceal, and which his companion purloined. Nor be otherwise circulated in any form of
binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this
condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Morgan the trader did
not haggle over the pearls, but gave me at once what he judged a fair price. Sheppard's habitation terminated a row of old ruinous buildings, called
Wheeler's Rents; a dirty thoroughfare, part street, and part lane, running from
Mint Street, through a variety of turnings, and along the brink of a deep kennel,
skirted by a number of petty and neglected gardens in the direction of Saint
George's Fields. Maybe the girl was telling the truth, and then again,
maybe she wasn't. And, after all, a fine clear sky of bright colors
is the signal to come out of hiding and rejoice and go on with life.
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