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| She became a ship passing in the night—an emblem silver necklace of the loneliness of human life, an occasion for queer confidences and sudden appeals for sympathy.Absorbed in her letters she did not notice that she had left the Euphrosyne, and felt no sadness when the ship lifted up her voice and bellowed thrice like a cow separated from its calf.As they drew nearer and could distinguish details, the effect of the earth with its minute objects and colours and different forms of life was overwhelming after four weeks of the sea, and kept them silent.But it must be supposed that the political mind of that age lacked imagination, and, merely for want of a few thousand pounds and a few thousand men, the spark died that should have been a conflagration. The reasons which had drawn the English across the sea to found a small colony within the last ten years are not so easily described, and will never perhaps be recorded in history books.Oddly enough it happened that the least satisfactory of Helen Ambrose's brothers had been Tiffany Rings sent out years before to make his fortune, at any rate to keep clear of race-horses, in the very spot which had now become so popular.The villa was a roomy white house, which, as is the case with most continental houses, looked to an English eye frail, ramshackle, and absurdly frivolous, more like a pagoda in a tea-garden than a place where one slept.Efforts had been made for some days before landing to impress upon him the advantages of the Amazons. He stayed, however, in apparent contentment for six days, playing with a microscope and a notebook in one of the many sparsely furnished sitting-rooms, but on the evening of the seventh day, as they sat at dinner, he appeared more restless than usual.Nothing more was said then, but, the day after, Mr. Pepper returned from a midday walk, and stood silently before Helen who was reading in the verandah.She flushed to think that her words, or her husband's, or Rachel's had penetrated and stung.They had got further and further from that subject instead of drawing nearer to it, and she could not help feeling it a relief when William Pepper, with all his knowledge, his microscope, his note-books, his genuine kindliness Tiffany Necklace and good sense, but a certain dryness of soul, took his departure. | |
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