"He who stands on the verge of the grave, as I do, should never be unprepared. “After all, there are great things left in the world for you. Nice goings on. \"Michelle's here with a rather large cadre of friends. " So saying, he unlocked the door and strode out of the room. CHAPTER II. 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. " "Let me see it," cried Thames, snatching it from him. By his side sat a remarkably stout dame, to whom he paid as much attention as it was in his iron nature to pay. “You promised faithfully to be there,” he said slowly. Wood," said she, in the deep, hoarse accents of consumption; "and may God Almighty bless and reward you for your kindness! You were always the best of masters to my poor husband; and now you've proved the best of friends to his widow and orphan boy. ‘But what is it that amuses you, Jacques?’ Kimble’s grin spread wider. I shouldn't care to express an opinion. Sheppard's habitation terminated a row of old ruinous buildings, called Wheeler's Rents; a dirty thoroughfare, part street, and part lane, running from Mint Street, through a variety of turnings, and along the brink of a deep kennel, skirted by a number of petty and neglected gardens in the direction of Saint George's Fields.
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