Cathy sighed. The air became hot and swollen with June humidity. He seized a tray, squatted on the floor, and imitated the tom-tom. In the beginning it was a dictionary. And it’s no use thinking he’d stop her. “Do you hear!” she said “whatever you are, wherever you are! I will not be slave to the thought of any man, slave to the customs of any time. 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 I do not pay this penalty. “It’s no sort of good, Ann Veronica, pretending one does believe when one doesn’t. On a sudden, a change came over her countenance, which, up to this moment, had worn a smiling and satisfied expression. The carpet was a quiet drugget and not excessively worn, and the bed in the corner was covered by a white quilt. They were bathing in the stream. You understand me, I’m sure. He unlocked himself from her embrace. He could talk to her as frankly as he could to a man, that she would not take offence at anything so long as it was in the form of explanation.
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