I'm trying to make you see the worldly point of view, which always inclines toward the evil side of things. The two great hotels on their right were still ablaze with lights. ‘Aye, that she was. What marriage really meant (aside from the idea of escape), Ruth had not the least conception, no more than a child. But she made a pretence of struggling a little, for it would be out of character for her not to do so and she did not want to arouse his suspicions. She ought to have been disposed to faint and scream at all these happenings; she ought to have maintained a front of outraged dignity to veil the sinking of her heart. Here he was almost stunned by the deafening clamour resounding on all sides. 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. "By all means," rejoined Quilt.
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