Hill’s first night back amongst us, too. ” She solemnly replied. Will you read to me? I am tired; and the sound of your voice makes me drowsy. She might scream until her voice failed; the natives would not come to her aid; they never meddled with the affairs of the whites. Her companion was a portly handsome man, also dressed in a full suit of the deepest mourning, with the finest of lace at his bosom and wrists, and a sword in a black sheath by his side. They did not speak until he had driven past town limits and were on the highway. ’ ‘You have seen him? Exactement. “I have loved you,” he was saying, “ever since you sat on that gate and talked. But what can we do? Here am I, fixed to respectability and this laboratory; you’re living at home. “I hope you will not compel me to say again that I do not know the man’s name, nor, to the best of my belief, have I ever seen him before in my life. Spurling was standing near the fire superintending some culinary preparation; but she no sooner perceived him, than hastily quitting her occupation, she elbowed a way for him and the knight through the crowd, and ushered them, with much ceremony, into an inner room, where they found the objects of their search, Quilt Arnold and Rykhart Van Galgebrok, seated at a small table, quietly smoking. Above the work-table was a drop-light—kerosene. She was never able to trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love (and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired, for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the sawdust in its doll. He sounds to me like a soldier of fortune.
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