“Do not be frightened, dear,” she said. She moved towards it slowly and picked it up, holding it out in front of her
whilst the familiar perfume seemed to assert itself with damning insistence. It’s no good. ”
She was frightened—his anger always did frighten her—and in her resolve to
conceal her fright she carried a queen-like dignity to what she felt even at the
time was a preposterous pitch. ‘Get out! Out, I say! Think I want another miserable cowardly good-for-nothing
wastrel on my hands? Begone! Out of my house!’
He drove them to the door, grimly satisfied when the girl’s nerve broke. Wood, despair will come over me; and, dear as this babe is to me, far dearer
than my own wretched life, which I would lay down for him any minute, I have
prayed to Heaven to remove him, rather than he should grow up to be a man, and
be exposed to his father's temptations—rather than he should live as wickedly
and die as disgracefully as his father. Gerald’s breath caught. Until the last few months. She
saw the moonlit waters, the black shadow of the proa, the moon-fire that ran
down the far edge of the bellying sail, the silent natives: no sound except the
slapping of the outrigger and the low sibilant murmur of water falling away from
the sides—and the beating of her heart. "To-night you shall be my
wedded wife. S. He stalked her, he stared at her, he craved her,
he sidled slinking and propitiatory and yet relentlessly toward her, until at last
she awoke from the suffocating nightmare nearness of his approach, and lay
awake in fear and horror listening to the unaccustomed sounds of the hotel. ”
They were in the elder Widgett girl’s bedroom; Hetty was laid up, she said,
with a sprained ankle, and a miscellaneous party was gossiping away her tedium.
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