Captain Roding
either did not know, or did not remember that she had it. He had finally put aside The Lilac
Sunbonnet, gone into his study, lit the gas fire, and written the letter that had
brought these unsatisfactory relations to a head. She lingered over
donning her winter coat, buttoning each toggle and
placket, double knotting her long scarf. ' But, gentlemen,
though they talked so largely, and looked so fiercely, they did not do it; they did
not hang the bailiffs; and where are they?"
"Ay, where are they?" echoed the company with indignant derision. As
they passed beneath the thick trees that shade the road to Dollis Hill, the gloom
was almost impenetrable. Dolby was portly and handsome. She leaped to a
world of shabby knowledge, of furtive base realizations. And then she fell into a musing about Capes. ”
“Who was annoyed?”
“Mr. 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. No
one had lived here since old man Remenham had died some eighteen months
ago, for the heir, so it was rumoured, was a relative with property of his own. —'We'll do it,' said they, filling their glasses, and looking as fierce as
King George's grenadier guards; 'here's your health, Mint.
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