Wood's anxiety to please her distinguished guests speedily displayed itself in a very plentiful, if not very dainty repast. ‘I’m damned if I see what you have to complain of,’ uttered Charvill, a faintly bewildered note underlying his irascibility. The locket contained the face of her mother—all the family album she had. “It was poison—why not?” she answered. “You are quite right, I think. And of course! She had a brilliant idea. " "I see. " There were two Condemned Holds,—one for each sex. " "That was my doing, dearest," urged the carpenter; "I was afraid if you saw her that some such scene as this might occur. ” Ann Veronica made no answer. The echoes of his hard, unpleasant laugh reached Anna on her way upstairs. She would just have to show up and hope for the best. 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. The raising of twenty-five pounds was a task altogether beyond her powers.
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