Wood in a sharp tone. What is the matter with you?” Dunster had withdrawn discreetly. ” “I think,” Lady Lescelles said, putting down her teacup, “that I must send Nigel to plead his own cause. Well, come back in half an hour. " "Why did you use the name of Taber?" "To keep my real name out of the mess I expected to make of myself over here. 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. His face was downcast. " "A terrible dream, indeed," said Jonathan thoughtfully. ” He retorted smartly, looking at her with mischief. Gerald lifted an eyebrow. “He does not come here,” she exclaimed, quickly. She had had to do away with many a leering foster father since she had started frequenting foster homes in the middle of the century. She felt like Snow White in a secret forest house populated by dwarves. Conscientious objectors to that process are not permitted, she found, in Canongate.
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