His Other Wife: A Novel — page 224: what you’re looking at

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216 MAN TO MAN. fairly roused. He did not wink an eye, nor stir a fiber, as he answered, with his steely glance quivering over the Minorcan’s face : ‘Yes, I understand that, and more, perhaps, than you care I should. But, Diez Valasco, I want you to under- stand that the pale little girl who is now aboard the Madcap is not the ‘affair’ of captain and mate, but man - and man.” ‘Aha! So you've had an eye to the beauty of our pretty little cargo, have you? Ho! ho! ho! I reckon well let her choose between us, mate; I fancy I'll have the odds on your sixty winters. ” The scorn of the captain’s bitter laughter rang out over the deck, and Conway waited quietly till it was hushed. His tone was low, but clear as a bell, when he said: ‘‘Captain, you’ve dared many a dark deed in your life, short as it is; but, by all the powers in heaven, I swear you shall not utter a word that a saint might not hearin the pure ears of that child, while a pulse beats in Graff Conway’s breast!” % With this the old sailor turned sharply away and de- scended to the cabin. Eomicbooks: (E(@)