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 had scarcely entered the arch, when the indraught was so violent, and the noise of the wind so dreadful and astounding, that he almost determined to relinquish the undertaking. Her words, as she said them, seemed to her to mean nothing, and there was so much that struggled for expression. Oh, and weeks and months of thought and feeling there are bottled up too. Talk to her of the new story; divert her; for this day her heart has been twisted sorely. “But all the rest of our case is right. “I wonder,” he said, “how you would like to be made love to—boldly or timorously or sentimentally. Even this man-hunting machine was willing to grant the boy his honeymoon. Buried under various ancestral sixteenths, smothered under modern thought, liberty of action and bewildering variety of flesh-pots, it was still alive to the extent that it needed only his present state to resuscitate it in all its peculiar force. How dreary it all looks.
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