“Oh, I can’t thank you. I want to make you feel that here is a place where the crowd does not clamor nor ill-winds blow. Now, it was a wilderness of weeds. And if he won’t—” But she did not give even unspoken words to the alternative at that time. Prior to the great adventure, her mirrors had been the still pools in the rocks after the ebb. ” He said nothing for a space. Her figure, though slight, had all the fulness of health; and her complexion—still pale, but without its former sickly cast,—contrasted agreeably, by its extreme fairness, with the dark brows and darker lashes that shaded eyes which, if they had lost some of their original brilliancy, had gained infinitely more in the soft and chastened lustre that replaced it. ’ ‘Do you tell me you think you can outwit Gerald? I wish I may see it. She had lost her nerve, and there was no more freedom in London for her that night. She went about in a negligent November London that had become very dark and foggy and greasy and forbidding indeed, and tried to find that modest but independent employment she had so rashly assumed. That was one of the mysterious qualities of this child of the lagoon: she had always at instant service that Oriental mask of impenetrable calm that no Occidental trick could dislodge.
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