His
eyes caught at hers with passionate inquiries. "
"Be pleased, then, in future not to let your surprise find vent in words," rejoined
Jonathan, sternly. She decided to go on, after a momentary halt. 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 turned to Martha as the lad exited by the back door, but her nurse
forestalled anything she might have said. Nothing, however, could be discerned, except the
crumbling brickwork. He's the most daring and expert housebreaker that ever
used a crow-bar. Meanwhile, the object of all this fearful disturbance had made his escape to
Newgate, from the roof of which he witnessed the destruction of his premises. Sir
John and Annabel seated themselves at one of them, and the proprietor himself,
a small dark-visaged man, radiant with smiles, came hurrying up, followed by a
waiter. So Mrs.
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