" "Could I credit your wild story, I might do so," returned Thames, with a look of perplexity. "I was born in the South Seas and I am on my way to America, to an aunt. “I wonder why people in love are so defiant, so careless of other considerations?” “The very hares grow brave. A broken laugh followed the action. “Married already,” he said, with his mouth full. You can scribble if you want to, but after you've given your eight hours daily to the mills. There isn't a nurse this side of Hong-Kong to be had. 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.
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