All at once they came to the top, the faded blue sky overhead, and whichever way he looked, the horizon, the great rocking circle which hemmed them in. She glanced into her companion’s face, and she saw there strange things. ” She suddenly caught hold of his shoulders and drew him down towards her. She seemed bursting with the desire to talk, and watching for her opportunity. She knew that the primary reason lay in the fact that both she and Chen were physically attractive people. ’ ‘Eh bien? And so?’ ‘He says as how he’s going to take you with him to France with his new wife. The girl stood with her hands behind her back, sulky, resolute, and intelligent, a strand of her black hair over one eye and looking more than usually delicate-featured, and more than ever like an obdurate child. " And, walking up to the animals, which were chained to the wall, they instantly recognised him, and suffered the others to pass without barking. Where her husband saw only two youngsters in the mating mood, she felt that tragedy in some phase lurked in this room—if only in the loneliness of these two, without kith or kin apparently, thousands of miles from home. 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. "Is she married?" he asked, after a brief pause. And the fences are down for good. He smiled tenderly.
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