How she hated talking of the man who was responsible for her being brought into the world. Hours were spent in preparation for the event. Some indeed carried themselves, dressed themselves even, rather as foreign visitors from the land of “Looking Backward” and “News from Nowhere” than as the indigenous Londoners they were. 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. " Thames hastily cast his eyes over it, and transferred it, with a look of incredulity, to Wood. She drifted back into the welcoming arms of sleep, feeling herself surrounded in silk. Neither your aunt nor I have any other thought but what is best for you. For my own part, I don't see in what way it is to be accomplished, except by the payment of our customary fees. ” He repeated several times that he would trust her, though it remained obscure just exactly where the trust came in.
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