His Other Wife: A Novel — page 203: what you’re looking at

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SERPENT AND DOVE. 195 and person, and his own deep sorrow for the disaster. But. even a credulous, immature girl is often a problem to baffle the most skillful and experienced libertine; and, although he approached the encounter armed with the most honorable proposals, and supported by a seemingly veritable’ necessity for Faith to place herself under his most sacred protection by assuming his name, he found that in that slight, willowy creature, whose fibers and nerves seemed made of a gossamer texture, there was a protean resistance to his sophistry that would have done credit to a moral acrobat. He opened the contest thus: It was past midnight, and the cutter was flying before a stiff wind southward, when Faith wakened from her long sleep. The heat from her limbs and the warmth of the cabin had thoroughly dried her light garments, and, oppressed by the weight of the heavy blanket, she had thrown it from her in her restless tossing, and lay in a careless and graceful attitude upon the low, broad sofa where they had first placed her. The dim light of a single lamp revealed to her the strangeness of the place, and, passing her hands over her eyes as if to rouse herself more fully from what seemed to be a dream, she looked about her. Slowly a sense of reality came to her, and then her thoughts recurred to her last conscious moment, ere her thoughtless movement had overturned the little skiff. (eo) Eomicbooks: