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. His room was last at the end of one winding corner. A dozen shynesses and intellectual barriers were being outflanked or broken down in her mind. She meditated long and carefully upon her letter to her father before she wrote it, and gravely and deliberately again before she despatched it. “Men are curious animals, with a trick of falling in love readily with girls about your age. "Has any one been here?" he asked. There was now a girl in the picture, so it seemed. She wondered why he was so distinctive, so unlike other men, and it never occurred to her for some time that this might be because she was falling in love with him.
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