Sheppard looked round, and exchanged kindly glances with several of those who addressed him. You won’t want to be late the first evening, and it’s ten minutes past seven now. And as for not knowing me, you abominable little liar, you’re perfectly aware that we met at Remenham House. Wood, now more buxom and more gorgeously arrayed than ever,—as well as a young and beautiful female, in whom he was at no loss to recognise the carpenter's daughter. Youth! You denied me even that," said Ruth, her glance now flashing to her father. " "I wish you hadn't mentioned her," said Jack, in a broken voice, while his whole frame shook with emotion. 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. She cursed the treachery of memory, its frailty and spottiness.
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