She felt pride sashay into her thoughts. “Miss Pellissier,” Brendon said gently, “I am afraid that some fresh trouble has come to you. 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. She thought study would be better. ’ ‘And she’d be right,’ Martha said severely. But as she got out of the train at Morningside Park Station she had a shock. The drunken beachcombers; the one-sided education; the utter loneliness of a white child without playfellows, human or animal, without fairy stories, who for days was left alone while the father visited neighbouring islands, these pictures sank far below their actual importance. Without hindrance—present occupation. If I’d meant it, my girl, you’d be dead meat. Here was Ruth Enschede—sick of love! Love—something the world would always keep hidden from her, at least human love. Robbed of their prey, the fury of the mob became ungovernable. Cathy Beck was outraged.
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