. ’
‘Hélas, poor you,’ Melusine rejoined sarcastically. "I believe I'll tear them up. She lay still for a long time, and her mind resumed at a
more tolerable pace. Presently they came to a
wall, on the other side of which the dog began to bark violently; but Blueskin
tossed him a piece of prepared meat, and uttering a low growl, he became silent. Mistresses neither
deserve consideration nor commiseration. You are a great deal more like what I
was a few months ago than I am now. “Good evening, Dorling,” he said. May I do so to-day?”
“It’s your gate,” she said, amiably; “you got it first. From this peaceful scene Jack's eye fell upon
Jonathan, who, seated upon the stile, under the shade of an elder tree, was
evidently watching him. 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. ’
***
It must have been fate, Gerald decided, near an hour later, staring intently at the
closed French windows on the raised alcove that led out to the terrace. More than half the city perished.
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