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. I’m a man, and I know what I mean. Sometimes the music would be tender and dreamy, like a native mother's crooning to her young; sometimes it would be so gay that the flesh tingled and the feet were urged to dance; again, it would be like the storms crashing, thunderous. The knots and broken pale that made the garden-fence scalable, and gave access to the fields behind, were still to be traced. The slack cloth of her habit caught on a curlicue in the carved back of the pew in front, pulling her suddenly about. Martin proceeded to grab Lucy by the shoulders and air-kiss both of her cheeks teasingly. His spirits began to rise. “So, Rhea must have known you for what you are. "Where is the boy?" demanded Sir Rowland. "I'll gibbet the rascal. And here she was—in a mess because it had been impossible for her to avoid leaning upon another man. Your fingers are even now as stiff as a schoolgirl’s. She threw her arms around Rollo's neck and laid her cheek upon the flea-bitten head. She was the first to hear another car approaching from the street, an odd occurrence in an elementary school lot that had been abandoned for the weekend.
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