CHAPTER XVI. The walls were bare, and painted in stone-colour; the floors, devoid of carpet; the beds, of hangings; the windows, of blinds; and, excepting in the thief-taker's own audience-chamber, there was not a chair or a table about the premises; the place of these conveniences being elsewhere supplied by benches, and deal-boards laid across joint-stools. Very soon she would be able to forget it. A great bowl of scarlet carnations gleamed from a dark corner, set against the background of a deep brown wall. . She saw the moonlit waters, the black shadow of the proa, the moon-fire that ran down the far edge of the bellying sail, the silent natives: no sound except the slapping of the outrigger and the low sibilant murmur of water falling away from the sides—and the beating of her heart. “Lucy, where is your callous? All violinists have calluses on their necks and hands from playing. Lights were on and Michelle’s mother was up, occasionally pacing as Michelle and Lucy had been gone for over two hours.
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