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The Tesmans appointed agents, a contract for government mail-boats secured, the era of steam beginning for the islands a great stride forward Heyst's stride! And all this sprang from the meeting of the cornered Morrison and of the wandering Heyst, which may or may not have been the direct outcome of a prayer.
He seemed to think he seemed to try to give me to understand that you were in special well, danger. You know how he talks." She said nothing; she made no sound, only the faint tinge of colour ebbed out of her cheek. "Yes," Heyst went on. "He seemed to try to warn me. That must have been it Did he imagine I had forgotten your existence? The only word he said was 'two'. It sounded so, at least.
I dare say if I were to die you would remember me right enough. And what good would that be to anybody? It's while I am alive that I want " Heyst stood by her chair, a stalwart figure imperfectly lighted. The broad shoulders, the martial face that was like a disguise of his disarmed soul, were lost in the gloom above the plane of light in which his feet were planted.
You don't take a woman into a desert jungle without being made sorry for it sooner or later, in one way or another; and Heyst being a gentleman only makes it worse." We said no more about Heyst on that occasion, and it so happened that I did not meet Davidson again for some three months. When we did come together, almost the first thing he said to me was: "I've seen him."
Such as she was, a fiddle-scraping girl picked up on the very threshold of infamy, she would try to rise above herself, triumphant and humble; and then happiness would burst on her like a torrent, flinging at her feet the man whom she loved. Heyst stirred slightly. "We had better be getting back, Lena, since we can't stay all night in the woods or anywhere else, for that matter.
Meantime Pedro, being introduced to some kindling-wood and a bundle of dry sticks, had busied himself outside in lighting a fire, on which he placed a ready-filled kettle handed to him by Wang impassively, at arm's length, as if across a chasm. Having received the thanks of his guests, Heyst wished them goodnight and withdrew, leaving them to their repose. Heyst walked away slowly.
Heyst had not acknowledged it in any way, though it seemed to him impossible that its effect on him should not be visible to anyone who happened to be looking on. And there were several men on the veranda, steady customers of Schomberg's table d'hote, gazing in his direction at the ladies of the orchestra, in fact. Heyst's dread arose, not out of shame or timidity, but from his fastidiousness.
"I assure you," Heyst interrupted, "that my wonder at your arrival in your boat here is so great that it leaves no room for minor astonishments. But hadn't you better land?" "That's the talk, sir!" Ricardo began to bustle about the boat, talking all the time.
"But Martin did!" he added in a faint whisper, which Heyst's ears just caught and no more. "I kept her out of sight as long as I could," said Heyst. "Perhaps, with your bringing up traditions, and so on; you will understand my reason for it." "He knew. He knew before!" Mr. Jones mourned in a hollow voice. "He knew of her from the first!" Backed hard against the wall he no longer watched Heyst.
She abandoned all her weight to that encircling and protecting pressure, while a thrill went through her at the sudden thought that it was she who would have to protect him, to be the defender of a man who was strong enough to lift her bodily, as he was doing even then in his two arms. For Heyst had done this as soon as they had crept through the doorway of the room.
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