‘Poor Gerald has been very busy about your affairs this last week. But Sheppard was not to be silenced. The picturesque scoundrel had the true gift; and Spurlock was filled with pity at the thought of such genius gone to pot. So, you see—’ ‘Do not say any more,’ Melusine uttered, flinging away and moving to the fireplace. And Blueskin, who, for a moment, had looked round distrustfully, concluding it was a feint, now laughed louder than ever. ‘What’s more,’ went on Martha, ‘I knew something Mr Charvill didn’t, or he wouldn’t so readily have left it behind him. He noted the strong white teeth as they snipped the thread. 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. I am determined to fight my own little battle with the world —there must be a place for me somewhere, and I mean to find it.
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