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. Then she begins to have visions of what is forbidden to all mortals: knowledge of the future. ’ ‘I spit on your plan,’ Melusine told him furiously. "If you have contrived to break out of your confinement, villain, this is the last place where you ought to show yourself. I learned of your betrothal, gleaned all the information I could simply by eavesdropping. ‘Cover her, men. ” Her father’s irony deepened. On this I am resolved. ’ ‘Pah!’ rejoined Melusine, apparently unconscious of echoing him. Of course I know nothing of what really did happen in Paris—if even you ever saw him there. She roves the blue fields of the North, with the clean North Wind on her lips and her blonde head jewelled with frost— mocking valour and hardihood! Out of the West she comes, riding the great ships and the endless steel ways that encompass the earth, and smoke comes with her and the glare of furnace fires—commerce! From the East she brings strange words upon her tongue and strange raiment upon her shoulders and the perfume of myrrh—antiquity! But oh! when she springs from the South, her rosy feet trailing the lotus, ripe lequats wreathing her head, in one hand the bright torch of danger and in the other the golden apples of love, with her eyes full of sapphires and her mouth full of pearls! "With her eyes full of sapphires and her mouth full of pearls. He took her hand in his, raising it closer, and gently touched the maltreated skin. Sometimes I am frightfully busy; and then there will be periods of dullness.
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