‘Go and fetch her home,’ he said; ‘it isn’t what we thought! It’s just a practical joke of hers. She kicked both of her legs with the force of a bull, sending a blow into Rhea’s borrowed legs. It was her distinctive test of an emotional state, its interference with a kindly normal digestion. But what's to be done?" "The first thing I do," replied Jack, "will be to visit my poor mother in Bedlam. Her specialty is the central thing in life, it is life itself, the warmth of life, sex—and love. 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. Only the night before, in the dining room of the Hong-Kong Hotel, she had watched him empty glass after glass of whisky, and shudder and shudder. Hurrying on, his progress was soon checked by a strong door, several inches in thickness, and nearly as wide as the passage. Ennison’s signet-ring had cut nearly to the bone.
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