"Well, lad, supposing you read what the editor has to say?" was McClintock's suggestion, when the frolic was over. 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. “What is the good of pretending?” she said. The boy would never know just how lucky he was. They seem to spend their time yawning and inspecting their neighbour’s dresses through those hateful glasses. ‘She has constituted herself leader of the émigrés here, and feels justifiably slighted by having taken the pretend Valades under her wing. G. ‘Which is why I feel sure he will utterly repulse the girl, even if she is his granddaughter.
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