" "Ah, my father! The way you treated him…!" "Good money after bad. You are a sisterless man; you have never heard the ordinary talk that goes on at a girls’ boarding-school. Her long incarceration at the convent in Blaye had taught her to be dismissive of her own appearance. 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. But it is no longer necessary. ’ *** Gerald Alderley stepped out of a house he had been visiting in Hamilton Place and the door closed behind him. He uttered one word over and over, monotonously: "Fool! … Fool!" But invariably the touch of Ruth's hand quieted him, and his head would cease to roll from side to side. Life is two things, that’s how I see it; two things mixed and muddled up together. The door is open, so it is needless to ask leave to enter.
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