“I should imagine,” he said, shaking out a copy of The Times, “that it is your brain which is addled. ” “Well!” “He greeted me effusively. “Much as I hate rows, I’ve either got to make a stand or give in altogether. "He's safe enough, I assure you. Many’s the bullets I’ve dug out of fellows in my time. ” “Why did you keep her all of these years? What good can it do?” “She created me, Lucia. It was a large, littered, self-forgetful apartment, decorated with unframed charcoal sketches by various incipient masters; and an open bookcase, surmounted by plaster casts and the half of a human skull, displayed an odd miscellany of books—Shaw and Swinburne, Tom Jones, Fabian Essays, Pope and Dumas, cheek by jowl. Deuce take it! I was very near spelling my name with one P. "Let's try, at all events," returned the Amazon. 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. ‘You have rifled his papers.
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