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Willow watched her accept payments and cross out numbers at the bottom of little columns while customers waited proudly with bags containing six-packs, cigarettes, potato chips, and quarts of milk. "I've got to get a job soon," Willow said, taking another bite of salad. "What for?" Amber's father made a deposit every month to her account. While you're in school, he told her. "I want to.
Out of doors something made a circuit of the cabin, like a beast of the night, stealthy footsteps muffled by the snow: pad pad pad.... In the emerald ring on Amber's finger the deathless fire leaped and pulsed.
And then Amber's intelligence was smitten by a thought as by a club; and he began to tremble violently, uncontrollably, being weakened by fatigue and the strain of that endless, terrible night. A strangled cry escaped him without his knowledge: "Sophia!" Sophia Farrell, the woman he had promised to wed, nay even the woman he loved with all his being a half-breed, a mulatto!
Raikes put a room at Amber's disposal, and the Virginian contrived to bathe and get into his evening clothes within less time than had been allowed him. Sophia, contrary to the habit of her sex, was little tardier. At thirty minutes past eight they sat down to dine, at a table in the garden of the Residency.
He was quietly dressed and had intelligent eyes, but was altogether unimpressive of manner, save for a certain vague air of reserve that assorted quaintly with his present attitude. "You've the advantage of me, sir," Amber summed up the result of his scrutiny. "It's not the first time," asserted the other, with an argumentative shake of his head. "No-o?" Light leaped in Amber's eyes.
Above its sight his eyes met Amber's with a level and unwavering glance, shining out of a dark, set face cast in a mould of insolence and pride. A bushy black beard was parted at his chin and brushed stiffly back. Between his thin hard lips, parted in a shadowy smile, his teeth gleamed white.
"You say true," replied Edward; "but if in this instance I have incurred an expense and responsibility, it must be considered to be more my misfortune than my fault." Edward Forster then entered into the particulars connected with Amber's rescue.
Captain Amber's first idea, it appeared, was to establish his little following in one of His Majesty's American colonies.
"It mightn't be safe, with that other devil skulking round Heaven knows where." "Right-O!" agreed Quain. His hand sought Amber's. "Good-bye, and God be with you," he said huskily. Amber tightened his clasp upon the man's fingers. "I can't improve on that, Tony," said he with a feeble smile. "Good-bye, and God be with you." He dropped his hand and turned away. "Come along, Doggott."
And while the black steamer with the buff super-structure toiled on, cleaving its arduous way through the turbulent yellow flood between the contracting shores of the Sunderbunds, while the offshore wind buffeted Amber's cheeks with the hot panting breath of Bengal, his eyes, dimmed with dreaming, saw only Her face.
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