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And she knew that, strive as he might to silence that soul-craving with earthly things, it would beat on unsatisfied through all. She came nearer to understanding him that night that ever before. "I am greatly honoured to be your first guest," said Crowther. "The honour is ours to get you," Avery declared.
Wilcox had filled up, had reappeared, and her track through the dew followed the path that he had turfed over, when he improved the garden and made it possible for games. "This is not quite our house yet," said Helen. "When Miss Avery called, I felt we are only a couple of tourists." "We shall be that everywhere, and for ever." "But affectionate tourists "
He spoke the words softly into her ear. There was only tenderness in the holding of his arms. "I am not," she whispered back. "Nor sorry?" urged Piers. She turned her face a little towards him. "No, dear, not a bit sorry; glad!" He held her more closely but with reverence. "Avery, you don't love me, do you?" "Of course I do!" she said.
He glanced up as she did not speak. "Shall we go?" he said. But Avery stood hesitating, asking herself if this could indeed be the end, if the impulse that had drawn her thither had been after all a mistaken one, or if even yet it might not carry her further than she had ever thought to go. He turned towards the conservatory door by which she had entered, and quietly opened it.
"Everyone feels like that sometimes," she said. "But Aunt Avery says it's only because we are too little to understand. Won't you begin and pray again? It does make a difference even though we can't see it." "I can't," said Piers. And then with swift compunction he kissed her face of disappointment. "Never mind, my queen! Don't you bother your little head about me!
As for our lost, but now found comrade, her complement of men was 180, or thereabouts; and Captain Avery had about 300 men with him, whereof he had ten carpenters with him, most of which were taken aboard the prize they had taken; so that, in a word, all the force Avery had at Madagascar, in the year 1699, or thereabouts, amounted to our three ships, for his own was lost, as you have heard; and never had any more than about 1200 men in all.
Pete's reply was lost in the shuffle of feet as the men rose and shook hands with him, asking him a dozen questions in as many seconds, asserting that he was looking fine, and generally behaving like a crowd of schoolboys, as they welcomed him to their midst again. Pete sat in the absent Bill Haskins's place. And "You must 'a' knowed he was coming" asserted Avery. "Bill is over to the line shack."
Lorimer very gently, "it was his right to be here." "Then that night that night " gasped Avery, "he really did come to me that night after the baby was born." "My darling, you begged for him so piteously," said Mrs. Lorimer apologetically. Avery's lip quivered. "That was just what I feared what I wanted to make impossible," she said. "When one is suffering, one forgets so."
Through the disinterested kindness of this worthy gentleman, I was in a few days after my arrival, well established in a store of provisions and groceries. The five kind gentlemen, to whom I was so deeply indebted for the loan, were: Everard Peck, George A. Avery, Samuel D. Porter, Levi W. Sibley, and Griffith, Brother & Co.
She drew herself together with an instinctive effort at self-control. "I thought you would respect my wish," she said, her voice very low. "Did you?" said Piers. "Then why did you lock the door?" He swung it closed behind him and came to her. "Listen to me, Avery!" he said. "You are not your own any longer to give or to take away. You are mine."
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