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She lowered her voice to a whisper, her arms still lying on Lance's shoulders, her clouded blue eyes looking up into his. "That trouble with Scotty Douglas kind of changed Tom and the boys. You went away. You've changed too, but in a different way. It soured them, just a little. Tom wants to make his million quick and get outa here.
I couldn't! and I can't have Felix worried, and there was a startled sob in her voice; but he answered with the strength and sweetness that had upheld her in Lance's most suffering moments. 'I would not distress you or Felix for more than words can utter!
I must find out for Lance's sake. There were times when intense pity softened my heart, almost moved me to tears; then the recollection of the tiny white baby lying all night in the sea, swaying to and fro with the waves, steeled me. I could see again the pure little waxen face, as the kindly woman kissed it on the pier.
Bent over his book Lance's head would have made an interesting sketch even if she were unable to obtain a satisfactory likeness. Then Tory forgot Lance and the outward objects surrounding her. The words he was reading aloud were creating a beautiful image in her mind. She seemed able to see "The Princess Nausicaa, fair as the Immortals."
I think this is the greatest day of all my life. The getting her down, what with Lance's inexperience and want of height and strength, was anxious work; and just as it had been safely accomplished, the rest of their party were seen roaming the aisle in distress and perplexity.
So eager was he to hasten on the building of the schooner that he even proposed the abandonment of the old settlement at the bottom of the bay, and the establishment of a new one on the rock itself. This, however, by no means suited Lance's views.
There had been no doubting the genuine nature of Lance's fears and those fears were very close to Mr. Mitchelbourne now. They were feeling like cold fingers about his heart. He was almost in the icy grip of them. He turned and rode down the lane until he came to the end of the wall. A meadow stretched behind the house.
Lance's clambering was a harder matter, for he did not venture to trust much to the rope, though the girl's strength was added to that of the two boys; and it was a severe climb up the scarcely indented, slippery, moist, slimy rock, where his hands and feet could hardly find any hold; and when at length he reached the top, he was so panting and dizzy, that Somerville at first held him to hinder his slipping backward into the sea.
Then Fulbert and Robina came home; and the former was half suspicious, half jealous, of Lance's preoccupation with what he chose to denominate 'a black Yankee nigger. He avoided the room himself, and kept Lance from it as much as was in his power; and one day Lance appeared with a black eye, of which he concealed the cause so entirely, that Felix, always afraid of his gamin tendencies, entreated Fulbert, as a friend, to ease his mind by telling him it was not given in a street row.
And when she did marry you, she was as happy as a lark wasn't she, Juan? But I like to have the thing over with in well, say half an hour's time. Then we can have refreshments, and smoke, and discuss the prospects of the young couple." Uncle Lance's question was hard to answer.
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