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The island had evidently grown round this lagoon, approached it gradually from the volcanic upheaval—an island of coral and lava. He touched her hand, soft and cool to his fingers—she turned at once to look at him. Divers plans and figures were chalked upon the walls; and the spaces between them were filled up with an almanack for the year; a godly ballad, adorned with a rude wood-cut, purporting to be "The History of Chaste Susannah;" an old print of the Seven Golden Candlesticks; an abstract of the various Acts of Parliament against drinking, swearing, and all manner of profaneness; and a view of the interior of Doctor Daniel Burgess's Presbyterian meeting-house in Russell Court, with portraits of the reverend gentleman and the principal members of his flock. He stalked her, he stared at her, he craved her, he sidled slinking and propitiatory and yet relentlessly toward her, until at last she awoke from the suffocating nightmare nearness of his approach, and lay awake in fear and horror listening to the unaccustomed sounds of the hotel. ‘Ah, now I may see what damage Gérard has done to me,’ she muttered, crossing to the table and putting her hand to the sore place at her neck. “But I—I went to Nigel Ennison for help. The clerk at the Raffles Hotel had accorded her but scant interest. Presently he began to weave a tale, sorry enough, with all the ancient claptraps and rusted platitudes. She had eaten them, murdered them routinely, and yet he loved her still. ‘Dare I guess at the reason for your sudden interest in émigrés, Gerald?’ ‘Lucilla,’ barked Hilary warningly. The young fellow was almost as odd in his way as the girl was in hers. " "Then you're heartily welcome, Sir, whoever you are. ‘You! Have you pen and paper?’ ‘Pen and paper now, is it?’ grumbled the old man as he shuffled down the hall.
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