He flung open the door and cast a quick glance round. She stood up and he sat down at the microscope, and for a time he was busy scrutinizing one section after another. 1. Part 5 The next morning she waited in the laboratory at the lunch-hour in the reasonable certainty that he would come to her. 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. "Confusion! the rascal must have picked my pocket of your letters," whispered Kneebone, "What's to be done?" "What's to be done! Why, I'm undone! How imprudent in you not to burn them. There’s sure to be a place somewhere. Kneebone!" "That you would not accept him were he to offer—" "Be silent, Sir. She owed the nun a great deal, including her command of English, for no one else thought to ensure she could speak her mother tongue. " So saying, he hurried up stairs, opened the back door, and was quickly in the yard. ” She spoke rather quickly, because she found her father’s question the most awkward she had ever had to answer in her life.
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