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. You'll do. \"What about scholarships?\"
\"Can't get 'em if your parents are rich. "Will he live?" asked Ruth. So, here he was, on the last lap of
middle age, in China, having missed all the thrills in life except one—the war
against Death. ‘The outcome, I think, is in
very little doubt. Blueskin might have butchered you and your brat before I'd have lifted a finger
to prevent him, if it hadn't suited my purposes to do so, and he hadn't incurred
my displeasure. Horrible doubts assailed her. I
don’t see any good in life if it hasn’t got you in it. ‘Perhaps she don’t understand English,’ suggested Roding. Nothing more forlorn could be conceived. "
"They're lifting her out of the carriage," interposed Charcam; "will it please your
honour to send for some advice and the chaplain?"
"Fly for both," returned Sir Rowland, in a tone of bitter anguish. Ann Veronica took off her jacket and sat down in the corner chair, and leaned
forward to look into the great hazy warm brown cavity of the house, and
Ramage placed his chair to sit beside her and near her, facing the stage.
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