She wondered who the
girl might belong to as she patted dirt over the shallow
grave. ‘In love? I? Don’t be ridiculous. A bad man, in fact. The idea of anything criminal never entered her thoughts. Why, there was drama in the very dress
she wore! There was drama in the unusual beauty of her, hidden away all these
years on a forgotten isle!
"You've been lonely, too. *****
Spurlock possessed that extraordinary condition of the mind which is called New
England conscience. Alban's
to-night. Each time a daughter had been born to him he had concealed
his chagrin with great tenderness and effusion from his wife, and had sworn
unwontedly and with passionate sincerity in the bathroom. His back was no sooner turned, than she slipped this casket into
the box. As if God would not continue to mock him so long as his brain held a
human thought! God had given him a pearl without price, and he had
misunderstood until this day. ’
‘You are not on my side at all, and it will be better that, instead of saying such
things to him, you would say them to yourself. She stole the opportunity to peer at his departing
figure from the closed curtains of the front room
window, his shoulders slumped forward, his posture and
his ego slightly deflated.
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