’ ‘Do you tell me you think you can outwit Gerald? I wish I may see it. She felt a little ashamed of herself, a bit of a hypocrite. “You go home and think of all this,” he said, “and talk about it to-morrow. 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. Gerald tried it. She was as pale as death, but she seemed to have lost the power of movement. Dizziness overcame him like anesthetic and he slept. A new inexplicable madness that urged him to shrill ironically the story of his coat—to take it off and fling it at the feet of any stranger who chanced to be nigh. She had tried him as a Crusader, in which guise he seemed plausible but heavy—“There IS something heavy about him; I wonder if it’s his mustache?”—and as a Hussar, which made him preposterous, and as a Black Brunswicker, which was better, and as an Arab sheik. But the big job for you is yet to come. Lucy spotted Michelle and Missy, who were in the middle of the theater talking to a group of boys, one of which appeared to be the widely coveted Josh Durkin.
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