“Soon she will return. 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. "Here, Tom," he added, calling to a shop-boy, "run and fetch a constable. "That's tremendous!" he cried. "What's the particular dope?" "If I told you, you would laugh," answered Ah Cum, gravely. I wonder whether you would mind, Lady Ferringhall,” he went on, with a sudden glance at her, “if I tell you that you yourself remind me a great deal more of what she was like then, except of course that your complexion and colouring are altogether different. Spurlock was no longer a man before this instinct; he was a child in trouble. And, though it's a long time ago, I feel as sore on the subject as ever. I don’t mean I’m not a good woman—I mean that I’m not a GOOD woman. I’ve a dread of love dropping its petals, becoming mean and ugly. Cheveney was another Paris friend, was he?” she asked.
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