His Other Wife: A Novel — page 238: what you’re looking at

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230 A LAMB AND A WOLF. its elements. Besides this, the father-like devotion of the old sailor went far toward reconciling her to the inevita- ble delays. The captain, too, had changed sensibly from his surly, silent ways, and often joined in social chat, or a game of cards with the mate and his fair profegee, and Graff Con- way was almost inclined to believe that Valasco had meant nothing more than a brutal jest in the ugly words he had spoken concerning the girl, or that he had come to the decision it were wisest not to meddle with anything that Graff Conway chose to protect. They knew each other well, these two wild ‘‘toilers of the sea,” but no man ever lets any other man see all the sides of his character. Hard as she tried to be agreeable and civil to the cap- tain, Faith could not always disguise the shrinking distrust which she felt toward him. .A cold, indefinable dread of his scintillating black eyes, and fierce, cruel smile, that had neither mirth nor good nature in it, caused her to have as little as possible to say to the Minorcan. He seemed unaware of such a feeling on her part, and his attentions became less constrained and more generally kind in their outward appearance each day. One afternoon, about a week after they had left the island, Faith sat under an awning on deck, diligently stitching on a garment of linen which she was fashioning from a supply of stuff so kindly urged upon her accept- ance by the mate. ‘This labor of replenishing her ward- 3 cComicbooks.co