‘Damnation!’ Confused, he released her, and in an instant she had darted away and was running down the garden. To love in such a way, it is excessively selfish. She was nude and horribly maimed. But if he's in bed, how the devil is he going with me, supposing I decide to hire him? The mudhook comes up to-morrow night. 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. ’ Melusine gasped. I want you beyond measure or reckoning. ’ ‘And who, may I ask, is Dorothée?’ asked Gerald. I shall start at the bottom. Or else I would have finished him. Time enough to do so when she has her affairs settled—if she can settle them. As she went on, the story began to sound more and more like a recitation. For what could be more ironical than for Howard Spurlock to see himself grow famous under the name of Taber? The ambrosia of which he had so happily dreamt!—and this gall and wormwood! He stood up and rapped his pipe on the rail.
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