I'm an old hand at such things. Something, then, to appease the wrath of God; something to blunt this persistent agony. " "Oh, Ruth couldn't put it on paper, to be sure; but there was no reason to hide the source. But underneath this tolerance there is always the vague hope that your manhood will someday reassert itself. Amongst others, the watchman whose box was placed against the churchyard wall, near the entrance to Shoe-lane, rushed out and sprung his rattle, which was immediately answered by another rattle from Holborn-bars. Here are your indentures, if you choose to seek another master. Wood then led the way up a rather high and, according to modern notions, incommodious flight of steps, and introduced his guest to a neat parlour, the windows of which were darkened by pots of flowers and creepers. The Chinamen raised the limp body and carried it to the hall staircase, up which they mounted laboriously. 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 have it on my conscience that I offended you—” “Offended me when?” “I’ve been haunted by the memory of you. But you must promise me not to go near that abandoned hussy at Willesden. His fellow-prisoners nicknamed him the gallows-provider, from a habit he had of picking out all those who were destined to the gibbet. Not only that, but he carried himself erect— the slight slouch which had bent his shoulders had altogether disappeared. ’ She sipped at the liquid in her glass, but her eyes remained fixed, rather unnervingly, on Gerald.
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