As he returned to the table, he put his finger to his nose; and, though he said nothing, he thought he had a much better chance of winning his wager. Perhaps some one had kissed the brow that was now so cadaverous, rubbed that sunken cheek with loving fingers, held that stringy neck with passionately living hands. I think she might be up to something. He removed his cocked hat and came towards her. At times he was brilliant and masterful, talked round and over every one, and would have been domineering if he had not been extraordinarily kindly; at times he was almost monosyllabic, and defeated Miss Garvice’s most skilful attempts to draw him out. The very sight of these impediments, would have appalled a less courageous spirit than Sheppard's—but nothing could daunt him. “You are magnificent,” she said, “but the steel of your truth is a little oversharpened. Upon my word, Anna,” she declared, with a strange little laugh, “you are a thousand times more like me as I was two months ago than I am myself. She was as fair as the lily of the lotus. I will never wed you. But now it’s beads by the cask—like the hold of a West African trader.
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