His Other Wife: A Novel — page 278: what you’re looking at

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270 THE WOLF AND HIS PREY. an expression of more intense-sensibility to her exquisite face. Evangeline upon her rock was not lovelier nor sadder than this fair creature. But the pathetic meanings of her beauty were all lost upon the fierce, passionate heart of the dark Spaniard at her feet, who thought only of her exquisite womanhood that he had been daily watching with an. increasing in- terest. It had even occurred to Valasco that he might win the heart of this pure pearl, and to his sensuous. admiration had been added a tinge of romantic passion that. he had never yet conceived for any woman. _ Prey, and not conquest, had been the alg of the hardy, bold seaman’s loves, What if, like the adventurous pirates of old sea tales, he might win him a bride in this delicate blossom that the waves had borne to his bark from the ‘‘Land of Flowers?” In the roughest and rudest natures some chord lies hushed and waiting for the ove touch that can evoke its notes to harmony with the diviner music of the higher life. Amid his wild career of bloodshed, and pillage, and. general lawlessness, this evil soul had never till now caught a glimpse of that starry radiance that, like a halo, encircled the ideal woman to whom a man’s spirit renders a homageas sincere as the ardent desires that thrill his mortal being in her presence. Eomicbooks: (ef)