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. . She gazed with a quiet detachment toward the window and the Oxford Street traffic, and in her heart she was busy kicking this man to death. ’ A multitude of changes flitted across Melusine’s features as she stood there for a space, unusually silent. He returned the locket without comment. It’s one of their worst traits, one of their very worst. Suddenly he understood what had happened. I’ve told you that practically already. Shalford says—the accidental conquering the essential. Her father was an astute businessman and a hard worker, but also handsome in the face which had aided partly his ascension to the Guild. He took up his hat and went. And I’m off to America, and if my steamer goes to the bottom of the Atlantic I’ll thank the Lord for it. ‘And nor do I. Maggot, who promptly interposed her cudgel.
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