When I told her that there were no available
nurses this side of Hong-Kong, she offered her services at once, and broke her
journey. "I will struggle
no longer with destiny. While the carpenter irresolutely quitted the room, with a strong presentiment of
ill upon his mind, a light quick step was heard descending the stairs, and before
he could call out to prevent it, a man was admitted into the passage. If he laid his own suspicions
boldly before the girl, and in the end the boy came clean, he would always be
haunted by the witless cruelty of the act. ‘He is not in England, you understand. She was never able to
trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed
herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love
(and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she
realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he
cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired,
for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the
sawdust in its doll. There came to
Spurlock the recurrence of the grim resolution of what he had set out to do: that
comradeship was all he might ever give this exquisite creature; for she was
exquisite, and in a way she dominated this picture of sea and sky and sail. Near as idiot as this capitaine of yours.
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