Sit down, I command you. Mr. Neither the manners, the looks, nor the attire of
these gentlemen prepossessed Mrs. ‘A spitfire, ain’t she, sir?’
Roding ignored this. ” He said. The servants had left the room. 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. ”
This made her even angrier, so she stopped speaking
to him for a week.
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