Perhaps marriage hurt. ’ A thought caught in her mind and she turned quickly to her old nurse. What she actually wanted was the present state of affairs to continue indefinitely. Peg after peg had gone down his blistered throat, but never had a smile touched his lips, never had his gaze roved inquisitively. 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. “And what was that dreadful confession you had to make?” he was saying. “Now isn’t this nice!” that lady exclaimed. " "Well, then," returned the ruffian, "to put you out o' suspense, as the topsman remarked to poor Tom Sheppard, afore he turned him off, I'm come to make you an honourable proposal o' marriage. Her steps slowed. She sought hastily in her mind for a plausible answer to an obvious question that didn’t come.
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