’
At this, the fellow Valade burst into unwise speech. "What is it you want of me?"
"All you know about this young fellow Spurlock. The world, perhaps,
will be educated out of its idea of fixed standards. "You'll not be offended, I hope," returned Wood, drily, "if I say that your voice,
your manner, and, above all, your very extraordinary way of laughing, put me
strangely in mind of one of the 'droll dogs,' (as you term them,) who helped to
perpetrate the outrage I've just described. For it was not a good thing
to like one man too much when one was going to marry another. ” He sprang to action. It has come,—and sooner than you expected. 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. ”
He rejoiced over this emancipation. I have often felt before that it is only when one has
nothing to say that one can write easy poetry. Will you find your destiny, I wonder, or will you go through
life like so many others—a wanderer, knocking ever at empty doors, homeless to
the last? Oh, if one could but find the way to your heart. And thus it was that she
came upon a book of Stevenson's verse—her first adventure into poetry. ’
She sighed relief to see a faint grin as he ventured to raise his head. "I haven't quite recovered the fright I got in the Vell-Hole," replied Abraham.
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