She was perfectly aware that the boy had
gotten some sort of bug in his craw over her despite her
sloppy, strange appearance. "
"That's reasonable. 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. She wasn’t sure of herself when she said it. McClintock never threw away any
advertising matter; in fact, he openly courted pamphlets; and they came from
automobile dealers and great mail-order houses, from haberdashers and tailors
and manufacturers of hair-tonics, razors, gloves, shoes, open plumbing. "I'm sorry for old Newgate that another jail should have it. You are
much more like what I was then. Indignation carried her through that night, that men and the world could so
entreat her. ”
“Thank you very much,” Anna said. “I’m rather a persistent person. He was tender with her as he had not been in
years.
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