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"Well, let us sit here," he said, and taking Eve's hand, he went to a great baulk of timber lying below the wheels of a paper-mill.
My frying-pan can have another cleaning." "Thanks, old friend," cried Jim, linking his arm in Eve's. "You're a great feller. You'll see us married." He squeezed the girl's arm. "And then?" "And then?" Peter looked away at the dying light. His eyes were full of the kindly thought his two friends knew so well. "Why, I'll just hit the trail again," he said. "Where to?"
"But social prejudices set you as far apart as if she were living at Pekin and you in Greenland." "The will of two lovers can rise victorious over all things," said Lucien, lowering his eyes. "You will forget us," returned the alarmed lover, as Eve's fair face rose before his mind. "On the contrary, I have perhaps sacrificed my love to you," cried Lucien. "What do you mean?"
She had selected Templeton as a residence on account of its cheapness, and, having neglected to comply with the forms of the world, by hesitating about making the customary visit to the Wigwam, she began to resent, in her spirit at least, Eve's delicate forbearance from obtruding herself, where, agreeably to all usage, she had a perfect right to suppose she was not desired.
If I were in your place, Sir Lionel, I should give no more thought to the matter; you have given the truth to-night to gentle woman, who will give it to the London world; Adam will only taste through Eve's palate; and the mighty Labouchere, Lawson & Co. will cry joyfully, 'hear! hear!" Both the men laughed.
At first the position was interesting; but, as the seconds followed each other, it gradually became irksome. Loder, watching the varying expressions of Eve's face, grew impatient of the delay, grew suddenly eager to be alone again in the fragrant darkness. Impelled by the desire, he leaned forward and opened the window. "Let's find the meaning of this," he said.
It was related among the spectators that Eve's family, and particularly old Justus Steinberger, her father, was not in reality much displeased by the affair. The old man sneeringly remarked, indeed, that he knew his daughter well enough to wish her to belong to his worst enemy. In the banking business there is a class of security which one is pleased to see discounted by one's rivals.
The very differences between the sexes in garb and social forms go back to the origin of man and woman for their reasons. Woman covers her hair in token of Eve's having brought sin into the world; she tries to hide her shame; and women precede men in a funeral cortege, because it was woman who brought death into the world.
Peter was the one to break the silence, and he ignored that which was in his thoughts. "Goin' to the ranch on foot, and by way of Eve's shack," he said in his gently humorous fashion. "Ye-es," responded Jim after a moment's thought. Then he added with a conscious laugh, "My 'plug' is back there at Rocket's tie-post, waiting, saddled." Then he went on, becoming suddenly earnest.
He turned quickly and rejoined his waiting friends. In another second the horses had wheeled round, and Eve and Loder were carried swiftly forward into the darkness. In the great moments of man's life woman comes before and after. Some shadow of this truth was in, Eve's mind as she lay back in her seat with closed eyes, and parted lips.
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