Just sit down on that stool again and let’s talk of
this in cold blood. A woman was born to have children, particularly
male children. The end of the world seemed at
hand. But
never mind that. It remains a bizarre idea to me that Lucy
Alberti could ever become so detailed or so real, but
I’m certainly glad to have made her acquaintance. "
"Well, Sir, I must say you deserve some credit for your ingenuity, at all events,"
replied Jonathan, repressing a smile; "but, before you put out your foot so far, it
would have been quite as prudent to consider how you were to draw it back
again. Knowing the South
Seas from hearsay and by travel, he knew something of that inertia which
blunted the fineness, innate and acquired, of white men and women, the eternal
warfare against indifference and slovenliness. He well knows that but two lives—those of
Thames Darrell and Sir Rowland Trenchard,—stand between you and the vast
possessions of the family.
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