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To them the place was comfortable enough, but to the girl who sat swathed in sodden undergarments it was like a refrigerator. More than once she regretted her heedless refusal of the Countess Courteau's offer of a change; several times, in fact, she was upon the point of returning to claim it, but she shrank from facing that wintry wind, so low had her vitality fallen.
"Some folks is absolutely depraved that way. You'd probably enjoy a broken arm it would feel so good when it got well." The Countess Courteau's lip was curled contemptuously when she said: "Listen! I'm not going to be held up. There's a chance, of course, but hundreds have gone through. I can pull an oar. Pierce and I will row the first boat."
The brave can afford to be generous. I well, I've always had a feeling for you; I've never been blind to your attractions, my dear. Lately I've even experienced something of the er the old spell. Understand me? It's a fact. I'm actually taken with you, Hilda; I have the fire of an impetuous lover." Courteau's eyes gleamed; there was an unusual warmth to his gaze and a vibrance to his tone.
A boisterous wind had roused Lake Linderman, and out of the inky blackness came the sound of its anger. As Pierce groped his way up to the nearest skiff he was startled by receiving a sharp challenge in the Countess Courteau's voice. "Who is that?" she cried. "It's I, Pierce," he answered, quickly.
"I never dreamed that you cared enough for me to do what you did. To risk so much." "Risk?" Hilda nodded, and her loose straw-gold hair brushed Courteau's cheek. "Don't pretend any longer. I knew from the start. But you were jealous. When a woman loses the power to excite jealousy it's a sign she's growing old and ugly and losing her fire. She can face anything except that." "Fire!"
As the Yukon increased in volume it became muddy, singing a low, hissing song, as if the falling particles of snow melted on its surface and turned to steam. Out of all the traffic that flowed past the dance-hall party, among all the boats they overhauled and left behind, Pierce Phillips nowhere recognized the Countess Courteau's outfit.
"What happened? I I haven't heard. Don't they think Pierce did it?" "You KNOW he didn't do it," Rouletta cried. "Neither did he steal Courteau's money." "What do you mean, 'I know'?" Laure's voice was harsh, imperative.
Hardship, monotony, fatigue score the very soul; constant close association renders men absurdly petulant and childishly quarrelsome. Many are the heartaches charged against those early days and those early trails. Of course there was much less internal friction in outfits like Kirby's or the Countess Courteau's, where the men worked under orders, but even there relations were often strained.
But, after all, when a woman really cares, there's a satisfaction, a compensation, in sacrifice, no matter how great." Hilda Courteau's eyes were misty, their dark-fringed lids trembled wearily shut. "Yes," she nodded, "I suppose so. Bitter and sweet! When a woman of my sort, my age and experience, lets herself really care, she tastes both.
Her subjugation was made complete when he led her into a box at the Rialto Theater and insisted upon the two McCaskeys joining them. The brothers at first declined, but by this time Courteau's determination carried all before it. Joe halted him outside the box door, however, to inquire into the meaning of the affair. "It means this," the Count informed him.
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