He had been for months without music of the character he loved—and he
dared not play any of it!
McClintock, after the music began, left the piano and sat in a corner just beyond
the circle of light cast by the lamp. "Leave us, Mrs. ’
‘So did your business about marrying an Englishman seem to me,’ Gerald
returned. After quarter of an hour, she followed. He unhooked it from the front clasp. ”
“We will go to a very quiet place,” he assured her, “a place where I have often
taken my own sisters. But I give you this warning, and let it sink in. "Not proud in the least, I declare. ’
‘Will you have done, Gerald?’ demanded Hilary, exasperated. She saw herself building up a life upon that
—a life restrained, kindly, beautiful, a little pathetic and altogether dignified; a
life of great disciplines and suppressions and extensive reserves. His heart hammered in his chest. Down there, whisky raises the very
devil with white men. I had already won wars and sailed ships to
distant lands by the time I was thirty. They agreed that they must marry at once, this morning,
before the doctor could suspect what was toward. Better get back
now! You be careful.
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