. 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. ” Chapter XIX “THIS IS NOT THE END” “I said some afternoon,” she remarked, throwing open her warm coat, and taking off her gloves, “but I certainly did not mean to-day. I'll think no more about her. But in its stead—toward morning—there appeared another idea which appealed to him as sublime, appealed to the primitive conscience, to his artistic sense of the drama, to the poet and the novelist in him. . As for that, what man ever had? "That's a remarkable young woman," he offered, merely to note what effect it would have. "My good friend, Owen Wood,—Heaven preserve him!—is still living. He was content to watch her accepting compliments and gaudy bouquets full of red roses, white carnations, and purple statice. And thus it was that she came upon a book of Stevenson's verse—her first adventure into poetry. ‘What in God’s name do you think you’re playing at?’ ‘Let me alone, man,’ Gerald muttered under his breath. I have always understood that men avoid like the plague a woman with a sense of humour. "Who? Jack!" exclaimed Jonathan.
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