![]() ![]() The fundament of his crystallizing desire was for companionship in the blazing life of this place of rapid growth and early fading, where time slipped away so fast. Here fresh instincts, newly released, stirred, flared up, at the glare of early-afternoon sunlight, at the painful scarlet of the hibiscus blooms, the incredible indigo of the sea-all these flames of vividness through burning days, wilting into a caressing coolness, abruptly, at the fall of the brief, tropic dusk. The half-formulated yearnings which these sights and sounds were begetting were quite new and fresh in his experience. It summoned him from the palm fronds, rustling dryly in the continuous breeze love was telegraphed through the shy, bovine eyes of the brown girls in his estate-house village love assailed him in the breath of the honey-like sweet grass, undulating all day and all night under the white moonlight of the Caribbees, pouring over him intoxicatingly through his opened jalousies as he lay, often sleepless, through long nights of spice and balm smells on his mahogany bedstead-pale grass, looking like snow under the moon. previous 1 2 3 4 next sort by previous 1 2 3 4 next Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. Love whispered to him vaguely, compellingly. 2,707 ratings 331 reviews shelved 10,522 times Showing 30 distinct works. ![]() ![]() “His new friends did not, perhaps, realize the overpowering effect of the sudden change upon this northernbred man the effects of the moonlight and the soft trade-wind, the life of love which surrounded him here. ![]()
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