Cumner's Son and other South Sea Folk, Volume 4 by Gilbert Parker

"See, madame -- there, on the Hill of Pains, the long finger of the Semaphore! One more prisoner has escaped -- one more."

"One more, Marie. It is the life here that on the Hill, this here below; and yet the sun is bright, the cockatoos are laughing in the palms, and you hear my linnet singing."