. "What say you to carrying her off, Captain?" suggested Blueskin. “I mean REALLY independent. " "From Mr. What he did not know was this: Ruth surrendered these little secrets because the doctor had warned her that the patient must be amused and interested. 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. This was not the sort of confession which he had been expecting. All the furniture was moved, all the meals were disarranged, and everybody, Ann Veronica included, appeared in new, bright costumes. But this only incensed the assailing party the more. ’ Melusine did not reply. “Whither away?” he said, very distinctly in a curiously wheedling voice.
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