Her mother had died when she was thirteen, her two much older sisters had married off—one submissively, one insubordinately; her two brothers had gone out into the world well ahead of her, and so she had made what she could of her father. Hitherto, no visiters had been permitted to see him. " Spurlock's glance shot up, flaming again. A stack of chimneys, on the house above them, had yielded to the storm, and descended in a shower of bricks and stones. Never had her father explained. " Sheppard was no match for his opponent, for, though he possessed more science, he was deficient in weight and strength; and, after a short round, in which he had decidedly the worst of it, a well-directed hit on the nob stretched him at full length on the floor. You simply can’t. 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. Don’t be frightened, dear. There are sentimental and traditional deferences and reverences, I know, between father and son; but that’s just exactly what prevents the development of an easy friendship. The primitive superstition of his Puritan forbears was his; and before this the buckler of his education disintegrated. But on Sunday he had been obliged to attend to certain matters for the nuns. ’ ‘Very well, Melusine, you win,’ Gerald said unguardedly, and dug his hand into his pocket.
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