Disillusion stands in
one doorway of our house and Mockery in the other. Chapter XIII
“HE WILL NOT FORGET!”
The external changes in Brendon following on his alteration of fortune were
sufficiently noticeable. ‘Do you think I could bear to be without you for a moment longer? I am quite
jealous of Melusine taking up all your attention. She was
breathing hard, dragging for air, half in fright and half because the sudden effort
had used up what little air she had managed to draw so briefly. Fast and Loose. 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. “You’re kidding, right?”
“Not kidding at all. Spurlock felt very well pleased with himself. No police officers or lurking storms were
anywhere in sight. ‘Let me see if our minds are attuned. “I will go,” he said. Not at all. His clothes were smartly pressed, his linen white, his jaws
cleanly shaven; but the day would come when he would grow indifferent to
bodily cleanliness.
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