"We have had a sad loss, my dear Winifred," he began,—"for I must use the
privilege of an old friend, and address you by that familiar name,—we have had
a sad loss in the death of your lamented parent, whose memory I shall for ever
revere. Yet she never once thought
of changing it. “This,” he said, and then: “No! Is this
sweeter? Very well. “No. ”
“Alcide’s songs are not atrocious,” Ennison remarked. One side of the
face was white with foamy lather and the other ruddy-cheeked and blue-jawed. "Here, take this and get the letter and open
and read it. 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. "
Not many days after this event, on a bright October morning, the bells rang a
merry peal from the old gray tower of Willesden church.
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