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. ” He shook his head. To preach a fine sermon every Sunday so that he would lose neither the art nor the impulse; and this child, in secret rebellion, taking it down in long hand during odd hours in the week! Preaching grandiloquently before a few score natives who understood little beyond the gestures, for the single purpose of warding off disintegration! It reminded the doctor of a stubborn retreat; from barricade to barricade, grimly fighting to keep the enemy at bay, that insidious enemy of the white man in the South Seas—inertia. “I’m not in the mood right this instant. The smile had become a laugh. “It’s nothing to what I WILL do. The next hour makes, or mars you for ever. ‘But she will not shoot you,’ Melusine told him flatly. He would talk to Spurlock, but from the bench; as a judge, not as a chagrined lover. The intensity of the eyes and the defiant tone bewildered the doctor, who found his well-constructed jeremiad without a platform. It is quite light yet, and I want to have one more look at that angry red sun. ” CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH THE SAPPHIRE RING Part 1 For a time that ring set with sapphires seemed to be, after all, the satisfactory solution of Ann Veronica’s difficulties. I may want you. A physiognomist, indeed, would have likened him to that crafty animal, and it must be owned the general formation of his features favoured such a comparison. With what airs we human atoms invest ourselves! What ridiculous fancies of our importance! We believe we have destinies, when we have only destinations: that we are something immortal, when each of us is in truth only the repository of a dream.
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