‘Only you made me lose my temper, and—’ ‘I made you do so? Pah!’ Gerald at last succeeded in ripping the handkerchief from her grasp, and swiftly held it to her neck, oblivious to her now bloodied fingers clawing at his hand. Await me in the coach. In fact he was thinking of other things. Let us search it. I believe that his recovery was considered almost miraculous. “You blithering idiot!” he exclaimed. ’ ‘You always were an old sobersides, even as a boy,’ retorted the major, who was close on thirty now, yet as ripe for excitement as he had been on receiving his first commission at sixteen. 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. I found the door locked as usual, but when we entered this room everything was as you see. Your aunt liked the pheasant. ’ ‘What?’ ‘Neat little toy. You are too credulous. What a frightened fool he was! If he could not remember her name, it was equally possible that already she had forgotten his. She’d prefer that I read classic literature, of course, but she only reads paperback romance novels, so she can’t exactly complain.
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