His Other Wife: A Novel — page 194: what you’re looking at

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186 ON BOARD THE MADCAP. presence until he stood very near her, and, bending low over her head, laid his hand on her brow. She gave a violent start—it was like a spasm—and a frightened cry broke from her lips, as she opened her eyes and drew herself away from the light touch of the man be- side her. . Did I wake you?” he asked, in a tone of mournful solicitude; then- added, penitently, as he moved a step backward and folded his arms: ‘‘I am sorry if I dis- turbed you, but I felt so anxious lest you ‘should be feverish and ill.” j _The lady reclosed her eyes with a shudder, as she re- plied : ‘‘T believe I was almost asleep. Oh, when will this miserable voyage end?” Her voice had sunk to a piteous moan, as she asked the question. _‘**Very soon, I hope. You know I told you that the vessel] had been driven from its course, and been be- calmed for a day anda night. That is why we are out so long.” ‘“‘But we are moving now?” eae _**QOh, yes. A wind has sprung up, and we are now making for an island that is in sight, where we must stop until the storm now brewing is past. Our vessel is ‘s0 small and {poor I could not think of trusting your life to its aay protection in one of these Boas: from the equinox, Ecomicbooks. (E(0) im