You speak as one injured—as though I had been the one to take your name—as though you had been the one to make sacrifices. You mustn’t do things like that. At least, I frustrated her design in calling upon him this morning. It will be altogether you. Not conceiving that his sister—feeble as she was, and yielding as she had ever shown herself to his wishes, whether expressed or implied—would depart without consulting him, he was equally surprised and enraged to hear the servants busied in transporting her to the carriage. Sheppard, again arresting his departure. "Do you know anything further of Sir Rowland?" he asked. 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. . As she talked, the drift and significance of what she was saying shaped itself slowly to Ann Veronica’s apprehension. Somewhere she had read that it was the proper thing to do and that men liked to be alone with their tobacco.
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