Ruth sighed; Spurlock stood up and drew his hand across his forehead as if awakening from a dream. His grip twisted her wrist. She feasted reluctantly, partly out of wonder at the new function of her often elongated canines. " "Be pleased, then, in future not to let your surprise find vent in words," rejoined Jonathan, sternly. And then she had been disturbed by the eruption into the room of Major Gerald Alderley and his companion, Captain Hilary Roding. He had remarkably skilful fingers and a love of detailed processes, and he had become one of the most dexterous amateur makers of rock sections in the world. " Still his brain refused to assimilate the news or to deduce the tremendous importance of it. "He'll not trouble you on the liquor side, Mac. His mouth was sensuous but his eyes became frenetic. The conversation which her entrance had interrupted began to buzz again all around her. I thought I’d see Paris, do the thing—like a toff. —'How so?' says I. 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.
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