Chapter XXIII MONTAGUE HILL SEES LIGHT AT LAST At exactly ten minutes past ten Annabel rang the bell of her sister’s flat. At other times, it would seem that the sea itself had gone away. I could tell it was Italian, you see. He felt like a boy again, the taste for adventures was keen upon his palate, the whole undiscovered world of rhythmical things, of love and poetry and passion seemed again to him a real and actual place, and he himself an adventurer upon the threshold. She was posing before the mirror, critically, miserably, defensively, and perhaps bewilderedly. 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. Charley Pevenill was our host. Whatever he wrote he was: he became this or that character, he suffered or prospered equally. . “Will you be moral and your species, or immoral and yourself? We’ve decided to be immoral. She touched it, and her gaze lifted. - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
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