She sat, crouched together, by the corner of the hearthrug under the bookcase that supported the pig’s skull, and looked into the fire and up at Ann Veronica’s face, and let herself go. 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. Presently he began to weave a tale, sorry enough, with all the ancient claptraps and rusted platitudes. He laughed once or twice at himself as he paced backwards and forwards. Well, this was the side of the world where things like that happened. " "What for?" demanded the turnkey. Supposing they find you and take you away?—and she unprepared? Have you thought of that? Why did you marry her?" "God alone knows!" "And you don't love her! What kind of a woman do you want, anyhow?"—with rising anger. It's a bad omen to be thrown near that door. ” She stopped, and then suggested: “I wonder—I should love—if it was anything I said. " And running on in this way, he carefully concealed the tools. I’d take it— forgive me if I seem a little urgent—as a sort of proof of friendliness. “Lord!” she said. ” “I began to be afraid you might not come at all. Brendon. ‘Never trust a gun in female hands,’ grumbled Hilary, dropping the nun’s habit and backing to join his friend.
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