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But if I were not boozed I couldn't ask ask even for the job of gorse-grubbing or road sweeping. I haven't even the courage to ask you for a kiss if I'm not boozed." He looked at her. His eyes were infinitely pathetic. "Is there anyone about?" she whispered. "Only the man in the crow's-nest," he said, "why?" "Never mind him give me a kiss, Louis.
He turned over in his hammock ready to go to sleep. She came across to him and bent over him. "Louis, what's going to happen to-morrow?" she asked presently. "Gorse-grubbing. We've to get it all cleared now without delay." "You know what I mean, dear. Can't you won't you try not to go to Klondyke at all?
He bade her good-bye and went without a word of kindliness, of hope. Louis took him to Cook's Wall. When he came back he said nothing in answer to all Marcella's enquiries about what they had said on the long drive. Louis went back to the gorse-grubbing and worked feverishly for almost a month, as he always did after being drunk.
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