Bulging out more in the
middle than at the two extremities, it resembled an enormous cask set on its end,
—a sort of Heidelberg tun on a large scale,—and this resemblance was increased
by the small circular aperture—it hardly deserved to be called a door—pierced,
like the bung-hole of a barrell, through the side of the structure, at some distance
from the ground, and approached by a flight of wooden steps. You must say farewell to her, for I
cannot. ’
‘I’ve a good mind to leave the pair of you to it and take myself off,’ threatened
his junior, marching across the room and snatching up a decanter. The Dawn Pearl! To be
with her constantly, with no diversions to serve as barricades! Damn McClintock
for putting this thought in his head—that Ruth loved him!
He flung himself upon the beach, face downward, his outflung hands digging
into the sand: which was oddly like his problem—he could not grip it. ‘You know
pretty much everything you need to know. With astonishment,
Gerald saw a rheumy film rimming his old commander’s eyes. Me—I’m nothing but a country wench, and one who went to the bad. But his own situation was too perilous to admit of his
rendering any assistance to the ill-fated waterman. Something in her lack of embarrassment irritated him. If you met her you would, I am certain, think
her as fine as I do. Your first treatment
of a subject is always correct, always suggestive. Still—” Then, with incredible and obviously deliberate stupidity,
and a voice as flat as her own, he asked, “Who is the man?”
Her spirit raged within her at the dumbness, the paralysis that had fallen upon
her. . It heralded you, promised
you. If this is true, it must be owned that the boy's
mouth showed a strong tendency on his part to coarse indulgence.
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