Imagination, coloured by the obscurity, peopled the air with phantoms. When they made love, he
seemed to shift into the realm of possessiveness. 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. ToC
London, at the period of this history, boasted only a single bridge. Too late now. “I always get off here
and lean over that rail for a bit. People sat in unusual pews, and a wide margin of hassocky emptiness
intervened between the ceremony and the walls. You
simply can’t. ‘Oh, famous.
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