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Updated: May 28, 2025
A beam of the sun would fall upon her to warm her pale beauty and make it glow, the wind of mid-June play softly in her hair, and fold her in a child's embrace. Then again she would toy with her ring. "Ring, ring, he will come again, and put thee where thou shouldest be. Meantime lie still until he lie there instead of thee." July heats stilled the forest leaves; the coal-stacks grew apace.
"That was the old man," whispered Per Kofod. "That's how he treats them all and yet they don't want to give him up." Pelle could not utter a word; he stood there cowering, oppressed as by some terrible burden. Suddenly he pulled himself together, pressed his comrade's hand, and set off quickly between the coal-stacks. After a time he turned aside and followed the young girl at a little distance.
But though Gabriel Strood occupied no seat in that train, one of his successors was traveling by it to Chamonix after an absence of four years. Of those four years Captain Chayne had passed the last two among the coal-stacks of Aden, with the yellow land of Arabia at his back, longing each day for this particular morning, and keeping his body lithe and strong against its coming.
"That was the old man," whispered Per Kofod. "That's how he treats them all and yet they don't want to give him up." Pelle could not utter a word; he stood there cowering, oppressed as by some terrible burden. Suddenly he pulled himself together, pressed his comrade's hand, and set off quickly between the coal-stacks. After a time he turned aside and followed the young girl at a little distance.
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