“I had the pleasure of—er—meeting you more than once, I believe. But,
be like a son to her. Why should he
stare at her in this fashion?—for all the world as if she had pointed a pistol at his
head?
CHAPTER III
He had said it, spoken it like that … his own name! After all these weeks of
trying to obliterate even the memory of it!… to have given it to this girl without
her asking!
The thought of peril cleared a space in the alcoholic fog. The fascination of the idea of throwing
himself upon his knees and crying out all that was in his heart! As his eyes began
to focus objects, he saw one of her arms extended upon the counterpane, in his
direction, the hand clenched tightly. ”
Lucy and Sebastian returned to the mausoleum. She was mentally transported for an instant
to the old castle in Herculis. And yet, mulling it over, he began to understand why the white man was so
powerful in the world: he was taught loyalty and fair play in his schools, and he
carried this spirit the world which his forebears had conquered. She ought to have been disposed to faint and scream at all these
happenings; she ought to have maintained a front of outraged dignity to veil the
sinking of her heart. Over here men drink because they are lonely; and when they drink too hard
and too long, they wind up on the beach.
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