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. We have seen pitted cheeks, which we would not exchange for dimples and a satin skin. He was also, had she known it, more than a little insincere. “You’ll get me to allude to it, but you’d have to torture me to admit it. Mike was showing his territorial instincts, brought out by the fact that he was drunk. But through the fault of that pig, who dared to call himself Valade and masquerade in society under her birthright. Gosse twisted his body to avoid another thrust, and the heavy candlesticks fell, rolling with a noise like thunder, and falling with a thud to the floor. We were only—les autres. That is very bad, certainly, and for this he was extremely sorry.
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