”
“But it changes things. ’
‘Lord, yes,’ agreed Gerald, in mock horror. . He was like a man beside himself. After an affectionate parting with Winifred, Thames was conducted by the
carpenter to his sleeping apartment—a comfortable cosy chamber; such a one, in
short, as can only be met with in the country, with its dimity-curtained bed, its
sheets fragrant of lavender, its clean white furniture, and an atmosphere
breathing of freshness. Imbecile. “Can you spare me forty pounds?” she said. Oh, you must believe me. The drunken beachcombers; the one-sided education; the utter loneliness of a
white child without playfellows, human or animal, without fairy stories, who for
days was left alone while the father visited neighbouring islands, these pictures
sank far below their actual importance. Your aunt liked the pheasant. The terrific mental tension of the past few months
—that had held his bodily nourishment in a kind of strangulation—became as a
dream; and now his vitals responded rapidly to food and air. Though within the
last two days he had committed several heinous offences, and one of a darker
dye than any with which the reader has been made acquainted, his breast was not
yet so callous as to be wholly insensible to the stings of conscience.
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