A sense of loss was amongst us. "I cannot—will not suffer you to
remain here. ‘What are you going to do now, Gerald?’
He sipped his wine and shrugged. Why had he offered her that kiss on
board The Tigress? Perhaps that had been his hour of disenchantment. He impetuously
grasped a hold of her hand, looking for a callous. The
wish was vain: and, endeavouring to banish every earthly thought, he addressed
himself deeply and sincerely to prayer. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's
story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable
impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way?
CHAPTER XV
Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry,
so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool
which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there
were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in
normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. She would marry him. At the door to the kitchen, he
called out, ‘Pottiswick!’
The old man came out, shoving his chin in the air and glaring. Since her husband
has laid me under such a weight of obligation, I couldn't, in honour, continue—
hem!" and he took another explanatory pinch. The bridesmaids and pages got rather jumbled in the aisle, and she
had an effect of Alice’s white back and sloping shoulders and veiled head
receding toward the altar. She kicked him in
the shin, trying to knock him off his feet.
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