She creaked, groaned, and rattled; but that was
only her way of yawning when she awoke. “I am giving my understudy a chance. On his return to
London, he found that applications had been made from a somewhat doubtful
quarter by two individuals, for the posts of subordinate officers in his troop. Its walled heaved with black
mildew and sea-salt. Just as
soon as I deal with this little tramp, I’m going to divorce
you and take every penny that you’ve ever made,
including your pension and your measly inheritance from
125
your dishrag of a father!”
Something in the little man’s mind snapped. "Release her instantly,
villain!"
Both Winifred and her suitor started at this sudden apparition. Afterward goes on to Oxford. 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. I mean my
cut-offs and boots.
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