I will make her my Grail, and some day, perhaps, if God wills, she shall become my wife!’” He looked very hard before him as he said this, and his voice was full of deep feeling. Stanley determined to improve the occasion. ’ ‘So that you may interest yourself in my affairs even more?’ ‘Then I will go with you,’ he offered. She taught him all the lore she had; about bird-life and tree-life and the changing mysteries of the sea. 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. One of his converted Kanakas dropped in one day. Whence had she come: whither was she bound? A temporary congestion in the street held up the caravan for a spell; and Ah Cum looked backward to note if any of the party had become separated. Why else?’ Gerald stared at her blankly. It seemed to him that a sort of mist had risen up between them. ’ ‘But this is idiot. Still, one has to be reasonable. However this may be, such was the ill report of the place that few passed along the Old Bailey without bestowing a glance of fearful curiosity at its dingy walls, and wondering what was going on inside them; while fewer still, of those who paused at the door, read, without some internal trepidation, the formidable name—inscribed in large letters on its bright brass-plate—of JONATHAN WILD. You feel that that smile is for you, the words are for you, the whole song is for you. From what do you wish to be rescued?’ The girl fluttered her eyelashes, sighed dramatically and spread her hands.
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