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. “Yes, I remember,” she said. Because for the punishments je m’en moque. ”
She was silent for a time, with her nose on the pillow, and that brought her to:
“What’s the good of pretending?
“I love him,” she said aloud to the dim forms of her room, and repeated it, and
went on to imagine herself doing acts of tragically dog-like devotion to the
biologist, who, for the purposes of the drama, remained entirely unconscious of
and indifferent to her proceedings. . You
simply can’t. Still, his conscience was partly satisfied. ‘I am not in
the least in a rage. She
was by his side. ’
The lad Kimble moved swiftly to the door and walked out of the room. “I’d have to be blown up into a thousand pieces. “Good-bye, John,” she said simply. ’
‘The word of whom?’ came scoffingly from the pretty lips. "
"Never!" rejoined Kneebone, with increased ardour,—"never, till I receive from
your own lips the answer which is to make me the happiest or the most
miserable of mankind.
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