Baptist Kettleby (for so was the Master named) was a "goodly portly man, and a corpulent," whose fair round paunch bespoke the affection he entertained for good liquor and good living. 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. She began to draw on her gloves thoughtfully. Capes stood beside Miss Stanley, who was beaming unnaturally, and Mr. ’ ‘But he gives them to me. Her father and her husband, who had both been a little pale at their first encounter, were growing now just faintly flushed. She had come to the end of her resources. But what he could do or might do she could not imagine. ” Ann Veronica perceived that she must not forget to remain eminently reasonable. "It's very well Mr. ‘Besides, I don’t want the men blundering in here and frightening off our spy.
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