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. Here and there, a building might be
seen with the doors and windows driven in, and all access to it prevented by the
heaps of bricks and tilesherds. Meanwhile, she
doesn’t realize she’s pregnant and he’s still after her, day
after day. Many knew Diane’s
disdain for the Beck family as well, “who would take in
any stray that arrived mewling at their doorstep. Yet there was nothing for her to do. ‘Or perhaps to marry the soi-disant
cousin that Emile portrays?’
That silenced Martha, for the Mother Abbess had sent her off with Melusine to
England not only for the sake of the girl herself, but to save at least one of her
nuns from the growing wrath of the populace of France. —BRENDON.
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