Books!
She knew now what had saved her—her mother's hand, reaching down from
heaven, had set the giver's flaming eyes upon the covers of these books. "I don't know what I think," Wood answered sulkily; and he bent his eyes upon
the water, as if he wished to avert his attention forcibly from the scene. When I carried you up here like a bride, that is the
way I wanted us to be, Mary Lucia. She felt that
perhaps, in her desire to play an adequate part in the conversation, she had talked
rather more freely than she ought to have done, and given him a wrong
impression of herself. To
her great surprise and mortification he was not alone; but brought with him a
couple of friends, whom he begged to introduce as Mr. “I’ve broken off my
engagement,” she said, in a matter-of-fact tone, and found her heart thumping in
her neck. The stretch
of red dirt disappeared into a stretch of trees like Van
Gogh’s painting. After all a thousand
pounds is a trifle to rid you of an upstart, who may chance to deprive you of tens
of thousands. ‘Not kill me, I mean. She took the tray with both hands, gulped, and gave way to tears. If only this man had
been her father! The world would have meant nothing; the island would have
been wide enough. To work then
he went, and with wonderful industry filed off two of the iron bars.
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