” “Why can’t you take me with you?” He begged. . But recently he had asked God to pile it all on him; and God had added this, with a fresh portion for Ruth. ” Ogilvy reflected. Save us!" he cried, as his glance accidentally alighted on the drawing, which Winifred had dropped in her agitation. The bedding was removed; Mrs. The room was papered with green, large-patterned paper that was at worst a trifle dingy, and the arm-chair and the seats of the other chairs were covered with the unusual brightness of a large-patterned chintz, which also supplied the window-curtain. He heard the panting of the donkey-engine, then the slithering of the anchor chains. 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 borrow the expression from Melusine.
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