" "You're agitating yourself unnecessarily, Joan," returned Wood, in a soothing voice. But where in the world was the girl? A door led to another chamber beyond. "I disown you. ‘Me, I have a name. The lips were straight and pale, the chin aggressive, the nose indomitable. 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. Naturally you shout yourself hoarse when she has finished, and feel jolly pleased with yourself. ’ ‘Aye, more’s the pity. In a little while—to-morrow—all these tender, beautiful emotions will pass away, and I'll become what I was yesterday, a cynical, miserly old spinster.
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