What was his transport on perceiving that a few yards above him a light was burning. Its heroes never had daughters, they borrowed other people’s. Monsieur could rely upon his special attention, and for the cooking—well, he had his customers, who came from their homes to him year after year. 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. Panting with effort, she held her point menacingly at Gosse’s chest. He found the wall, as he suspected, solidly constructed of brick and stone; and with the slight and inadequate tools which he possessed, it was a work of infinite labour and skill to get out a single brick. She flew up from her stool and faced the door. ‘You said it. "Then I presume you've not been arrested?" "I have not," answered Wood firmly.
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