Rowland and his companions instantly started in pursuit, leaving the lady to recover as she might. 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. But she could tell by the dullness of his eyes that he saw only some inner vision. He was a stranger. Something as yet unformulated within her kept her estranged from all these practical aspects of her beliefs. We’re regarded as inflammable litter that mustn’t be left about. ’ ‘Distract me? She nigh on gave me an apoplexy. ” “Why not?” “Free woman—and equal. ’ ‘Valade?’ ‘Aye, sir. She really must not go to that affair. ‘But who was he, Gerald?’ ‘A damned condottiere,’ exploded Gerald, forgetting his company.
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