Gerald’s chest tightened. He spent a good deal more money and time than he could afford upon the little room at the top of the house, in producing new lapidary apparatus and new microscopic accessories and in rubbing down slices of rock to a transparent thinness and mounting them in a beautiful and dignified manner. 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 came along with the fluttering assurance of some tall ship. You are doing your best to break our friendship. God bless you, Auntie! I'll go into the mills and make pulp with my bare hands, if you want me to. To-morrow he might be sorry; but to-day, this hour! She rose, not quickly, but with a dignity which only accentuated her beauty. But he tells them that I am a spy. ’ He looked the girl up and down. She mentally reprimanded herself to alter her own visage so as not to appear depraved. But, since I've seen the friend and companion of my childhood, Thames Darrell, I've no heart for it.
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