"Right to a farthing. 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. . " "Isn't that lagoon gorgeous? I wonder if there'll be sharks?" "Not in the lagoon. Single pearls— Lord knows where they come from!—are always turning up, some of them of fine lustre; but I never set eyes on them. At last the panel swung back into the library. A. He turned round to keep Anna out by force if possible, but he was too late.
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