His Other Wife: A Novel — page 282: what you’re looking at

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274. THE WOLF AND HIS PREY. The captain was silent for a little while, and, though his lids were cast down, he still saw, passing and repassing before him, the fairy-footed delicate girl. The twilight had fallen while they talked, and the first stars were throbbing through the purple haze that vailed the unclouded sky. No longer the distant sail was visible on the dim horizon, for the grayness of the evening shut’it out. : After a long silence the captain said: _**But suppose you could see some one who loved you better than all of those you have spoken of, and a million like them, could love you?’ ‘‘T would still long for them, and only them. Their love is enough for me.” ne She spoke the words slowly and sadly. Evidently she had taken no personal inference from Valasco’s significant question. ee _ After a few turns more she went below, and remained in her state-room until tea-time, half an hour tater. a Comicbooks: (E(@)