" When Spurlock had finished the tale, touched here and there by his own imagination, McClintock made a negative sign. Once he chuckled aloud. She was mentally transported for an instant to the old castle in Herculis. Yet before she turned once more to resume her flight she schooled herself with an effort to look where it had happened. ‘Pen and paper, do you have them?’ ‘Danged if I have,’ came the truculent response. ’ Lucilla eyed him with one of those particularly feminine looks it was difficult for a mere male to interpret. You would rather live like the scum of the earth, in that little brown hovel you call a house, in bourgeois paradise. "Rowland," she rejoined, "you strive in vain to terrify me into compliance with your wishes. Determined, however, not be taken with life, he held on. " "Don't go near him, dear Thames," said Winifred; "he may have some ill intention. His features were regular, and finely-formed; his complexion bright and blooming,—a little shaded, however, by travel and exposure to the sun; and, with a praiseworthy contempt for the universal and preposterous fashion then prevailing, of substituting a peruke for the natural covering of the head, he allowed his own dark-brown hair to fall over his shoulders in ringlets as luxuriant as those that distinguished the court gallant in Charles the Second's days—a fashion, which we do not despair of seeing revived in our own days. His food lay untouched about his plate. 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. Get nothing out of me. But I am always afraid that he may get in while I am away.
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