. 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. Perhaps I am still mad. Melusine turned to
look at the walls, and saw, immediately opposite, set between two candelabra
above a marquetry side table, a gilded mirror. ’
She put in her request for this requirement immediately on returning to the
little parlour downstairs, and instantly fell foul of Captain Roding again. The voice of the young seaman came floating down from the masthead,
and the story of the immortal lovers had begun.
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