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Oh, let him in whom the flame of Devotion is ready to go out, who has never worshipped, and knows not what to worship, pace and repace, with austerest thought, the pavement of Monmouth Street, and say whether his heart and his eyes still continue dry. To most men, as it does to ourselves, all this will seem overcharged.
The spring of a panther was in Margaret's action as she began to repace the room. All her blood quickened to the thought suggested by her husband's soft voice. In the mirror she saw a crimsoned face and shamed eyes from which she turned away. All the pain and repression, the fight and bitter resignation and trained indifference of the past months were as if they had never been.
"No, we can't hide on the tug always, and we can't run her engines. You don't know anything about marine engines, do you, Caradoc?" "Very little. I couldn't run one." For several minutes, the two adventurers sat in silence, watching the small erect figure of the guard pace and repace his short path. Presently Madden said: "I've thought of one chance, Caradoc, to escape being starved or murdered."
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