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. 230
Rhea sprang, teeth flashing. Leonardo would not have
married her. I’ll try to stay as long as I can. Without a struggle he could give up his flesh and blood like that! "I
can now give myself to God utterly; no human emotion will ever be shuttling in
between. You
know the sort of thing. Everybody breathed
a collective sigh of relief in the neighborhood, no one
wanted to see how those kids would grow up.
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