” Lucy’s eyes smiled and a weary closed lipped smile arose on her face. She clenched her hands together and leaned forward in her chair, gazing steadily into the fire. " CHAPTER XXV. 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. Then Mr. Winifred screamed. Lucy could sense her mental resolution to nip Michelle’s burgeoning obsession with the occult in the bud. Through her door curtain she could see the light from the study lamp. Did she suppose him a possible pretender to her daughter’s hand? The girl—Dorothée, if memory served—was clearly marriageable, but he imagined most of these unhappy exiles were all but penniless.
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