‘Ah, no,’ Gerald uttered at once, lowering his voice and infusing it with all the
promise he could command. By instinct. 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. ”
“Remember that you are young still, and fond of admiration,” Anna said. His mind was filled
briefly with psychic images of a charnel house that
danced like a spider in his head. That would not help her. "Not the sort of stories young ladies should read. Preparations were next made
for taking Thames on board. ”
Annabel rose slowly to her feet, walked to the door as though to see that it was
shut, and came back with slow lagging footsteps. Had it come already?
Chapter XXVII
JOHN FERRINGHAM, GENTLEMAN
“Confess, my dear husband,” Annabel said lightly, “that you are bewildered. You fell in at once with her quixotic and damnable
scheme of foisting her reputation and her follies upon your shoulders whilst she
marries a rich man and commences all over again a life of selfish pleasure. Wearied at
length with thinking on the past, and terrified by the prospect of the future, he
threw himself on the straw with which the cage was littered, and endeavoured to
compose himself to slumber. ” She said.
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