His Other Wife: A Novel — page 237: what you’re looking at

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4A LAMB AND A WOLF. 229 day that the creole had lied about his relations with the girl, he much more than guessed that all the love was on Vernois side, and that Faith both avoided and mistrusted the man who claimed to be her husband. But her manner of sustaining herself with such quiet courage had won the mate’s profound sympathy and re- spect ; and, now that he knew the extent to which she had been taxed, his admiration knew no bounds. In providing her against a possible danger, as he had done, he, of course, had quite another enemy than pirates in his mind, but he thought best not to excite her fears by a more definite caution than the one he had just given. Moreover, he could easily see, from the manner in which she had received his vague expressions and pre- pared herself against the possible peril, that her own in- stinctive bravery would suggest all that was needful if the time ever came for her to employ the means of self-pro- tection with which he had furnished her. For the rest, the old ‘sea-lion, as he was fond of calling himself, intended to save her the trouble of guarding bcth her life and her honor against the desperado, whom he knew to be capable of sacrificing either, if it suited him, and occasion served, __ Two or three days went by, as still the cutter was tacking about at the mercy of contrary winds. But, while oppressed with impatience to reach the land and her friends, the life on shipboard had grown far more tolerable to Faith since Julian Vernois no longer composed one of Eomicbooks: (E(e) mM =)