If such a thing in connexion with him had been possible they
would have declared that he was in a towering rage. "
The woollen-draper made no answer, but hastily starting up, bolted the door. There was already a score or more of people there, some standing up and talking
together, others seated in chairs ranged along the wall. ”
“Isn’t it enough that I love you? Turn me now. Horrid snorters! So long, Vee! Just
suggested 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. He roused curiosities. She succumbed to cancer of the breast
at age forty-three, it was slow and wasting. She was ashamed of herself for the
simple gladness she felt wash over her as the infant’s
screams ended.
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