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Small discredit to her if she staggered under its onset, trembled and turned faint! For as she now perceived, it was exactly this relation of brother and sister of which she had some prescience, some dim intuition, from her first sight of Faircloth as he stood among the skeleton lobster-pots on board Timothy Proud's old boat.
That's a fine thing and a strong one. For your first ship is as a bride to you, and your first command makes you as a king among men. Oh! on a small scale I grant; but, as far as it reaches, your authority is absolute. On board your own ship you are master with a vengeance if you like. And I do like." Faircloth said the last few words softly, but with a weight of meaning not to be misunderstood.
Faircloth, Captain Faircloth? You are not, I earnestly hope, speaking of the owner of that low public-house on the island?" "Yes him," Mary returned grimly, her eyes still lowered.
To do so, without serious necessity, would be, as she saw it, a wanton endangering of his peace. If only the dear man with the blue eyes hadn't removed himself! She had counted upon his permanent support and counsel, on his smoothing away difficulties from the path of her dealings with Faircloth; but he appeared to have given her altogether the go-by, to have passed altogether out of her orbit.
I won't weary you with explanations of exactly what led to Darcy Faircloth coming here with me on Sunday. But you ought to know that he and Aunt Felicia met. I hadn't planned that. It just happened. And she was lovely to him lovely to us both. She made him stay to luncheon inviting him in your name."
"How can I speak to you when I don't understand," she answered gravely. "Either you lie which I should be sorry to accuse you of doing or you tell me a very terrible thing, if, that is, I at all comprehend what you say. Are you not the son of Mrs. Faircloth, who lives at the inn out by the black cottages?" "Yes, Lesbia Faircloth is my mother. And I ask for no better.
But it must represent this brother of hers in and by himself, divorced, as far as might be, from that pursuing, and, to her, singularly agitating likeness. Her design and her scrutiny were easier of prosecution that, during the last few minutes, Faircloth had retired into silence, and an attitude of abstraction.
Their very loyalty which she for no instant doubted went only to fill the cup of her humiliation to the brim. Reginald Sawyer's voice continued; but what he said now she neither heard nor cared. Her martyrdom could hardly suffer augmentation, the whole world seemed against her, she set apart, pilloried. But not alone. Faircloth was set apart, pilloried, also.
Would openly acknowledge the bond which joined Faircloth to her and to her people, by openly claiming his protection now, in this hour of her disgrace and supreme dismay. She would offer no excuse, no apology. Only there should be no more attempted concealment or evasion of the truth on her part, no furtiveness in his and her relation.
For, as with decreasing distance the figure grew distinct, she saw, to her blank amazement, not Sir Charles Verity, her father, as she expected, but the blue reefer jacket, peaked cap, and handsome bearded face of Darcy Faircloth, the young merchant sea-captain, emerge from the blur of the wet.
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