’ ‘How could he when he didn’t even handle it himself? Went off, I told you, and left it all to me. It would not be possible otherwise to live in daily contact with this level-eyed, lovely girl without loving her. 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. ‘Tchah! So you’re the whelp’s girl, are you? Suppose you’ve nothing but that villainous French in your tongue. Sordid; but that was not Ruth's term for it; she had no precise commentary to offer. ‘But this Englishwoman,’ asked the man Valade, his puzzlement plain to see, ‘who was she?’ The question irritated Charvill. “I would give my life for you. ” “There are some French customs,” he declared, “which are admirable. Do you not remember that this capitaine has heard us talking? You may believe that Gérard will not let the soldiers leave from the gate. ” She put her face closer to his.
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