Montague Hill. ‘The whole town is talking. He had pictured her, if indeed she had ever had the courage to do this thing, as sitting alone, convulsed with guilty fear, starting at her own shadow, a slave to constant terror. The slim knife was wrested from her grasp, and she was flung backwards, towards the bookcases. ’ He thought a wary look came into her face, but it was difficult to be sure. She could now see to read; so she stirred the manuscript about until she came upon the first page. “I opened my eyes, and she was bending over my bedside. She gave up as he finished, spending himself in her mouth. 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. F. Ice had begun to form in the shallows. ’ ‘It was so,’ said Valade, becoming a trifle more fluent.
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