”
Annabel shrugged her shoulders. But, on the bursting of that bubble, his hopes
vanished with it. "
"I am calm—perfectly calm," replied Winifred. "
"It'll not need to be repeated, at all events," rejoined Jonathan, looking with a
smile of malignant satisfaction at the body. 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. “His love-making,” she remarked, “struck me as unconvincing. Urging his steed along Oxford Road,—
as that great approach to the metropolis was then termed,—he soon passed
Marylebone Lane, beyond which, with the exception of a few scattered houses,
the country was completely open on the right, and laid out in pleasant fields and
gardens; nor did he draw in the rein until he arrived at Tyburn-gate, where,
before he turned off upon the Edgeware Road, he halted for a moment, to glance
at the place of execution. One must be
on guard. But the fall was too great, and he abandoned the attempt. “But Julian, we don’t even know each other!” She
exclaimed. “Of course,” he ventured, “I could try for more at the ‘Alhambra.
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