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It was Eve's fault in the first place or Adam's, rather, because it might be argued that he should have been master. Some men are too lazy to be masters in their own homes, and run the show properly; some are too careless, and some too drunk most of their time, and some too weak.
Had it been possible, nothing would have gratified me more than to have consulted you, and asked your approval and blessing, but with three thousand miles of ocean, and I know not how many hundred miles of land between us, that you know, was out of the question; besides, it could not have altered matters, for the thing is fixed. "My Eve's mother was an Indian.
How would you like to be hanged?" Will watched the working features. He saw and appreciated the terror he was causing, the suffering. But he could draw no further retort. As a matter of fact he had no definite idea yet as to what he should do with his captive. He was Eve's brother, but that did not influence him.
In Eve's behaviour there appeared a very noticeable reserve; she rarely turned her face to him while he spoke, and seemed to make only the briefest remarks. Her attention was given to the objects they passed. Totally unconscious of the scenes through which he was moving, Hilliard tracked the couple for more than an hour.
Eve's face quivered with emotion, and Reuben, seizing his advantage, continued: "Perhaps you think I'm saying this because I'm wanting you for myself, but, as God will judge us, 'tisn't that that's making me speak, Eve;" and he held out his hand toward her.
The letter through which the blow fell was not voluminous. It was written on cheap paper in a disguised hand, and the contents covered only half a page. Loder read it slowly, mentally articulating every word; then he laid it down, and as he did so he caught Eve's eyes raised in concern.
But when day after day rolled by, and no Font Abbey, he was dashed, uneasy, and, above all, perplexed. What could be the reason? Had he, with his rough ways, offended her? Had she been too dignified to resent it at the time? Was he never to go to Font Abbey again? Eve's first feeling was unmixed satisfaction. We have seen already that she expected no good from this rash attachment.
These chances only befall bold inquirers into Nature's methods! "Now," said he to himself, "I must contrive to do by machinery and some chemical agency the thing that I myself have done unconsciously." When his wife saw him, his face was radiant with belief in victory. There were traces of tears in Eve's face.
'Don't you think, dear, that Eve's object was not so much the acquisition of knowledge as the gratification of curiosity. 'That may be, said the elder lady in a doubtful tone; 'but my dear, who is to enlighten us as to which is which? We are apt in such matters to deceive ourselves.
Eve's warm skin colored more deeply; for a second the inscrutable underlying expression that puzzled him showed in her eyes, then she sank back into a corner of the chair. "Why do you make such a point of sneering at my friends?" she asked, quietly. "I overlook it when you are nervous." She halted slightly on the word. "But you are not nervous tonight." Loder, to his great humiliation, reddened.
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