His Other Wife: A Novel — page 207: what you’re looking at

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|THE MADCAP TAKES A PRIZE. 199 CHAPTER XxXI. THE MADCAP TAKES A PRIZE. Faith awoke early the next mcrning from the uneasy sleep that came over her after retiring to her state-room, with a sound like the roar of artillery booming around her, and the little vessel wildly plunging about amid furlous waves. She listened for some sound of life in the cabin, from which she was separated only by a thin partition; but an hour went by without a sign to assure her that any human creature was near. At the end of that time she was relieved from her feel- ing of utter isolation by hearing a rap on her door. She opened it at once, and found that her visitor was her companion in misery, Julian Vernois. The lamp still burned in the cabin, and in its wan, sickly rays the olive-hued face of the creole wore a haggard pallor, which was enhanced by the almost preternatural luster of his splendid eyes. | He held a.cup of black coffee in one hand and a small plate of sea-biscuit in the other, and smiled, as he said: ‘Tam playing stewardess to you, you see. You must take something to refresh you. .Have you been sleeping?” ‘‘Yes; but I have been awake and up for an hour,” (E(@) Eomicbooks: