“My name,” Anna replied calmly, “is certainly Pellissier, but I repeat that I do not know you. Wood required little pressing. Now, she was the very reverse of all this. 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. He was accustomed to such surprises, and enjoyed them. ‘I would read your body,’ he whispered, and lifted her fingers to his lips. “You!” she exclaimed. Not the most stringent search, conducted all morning, turned up one solitary sheet. Soot was everywhere, for the lamp would not stay trimmed in the gale. ’ He sighed. I had no curiosity of that kind.
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