I Forbid the Banns! — page 61: what you’re looking at

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ON SHADOWS. SI Marian Travers was not one of those people. Mr. Charl- ton had been quite as cordial in speaking to her after the last of the visitors had left the ship’s side and the moonlit rocks of the island were becoming more indistinct every moment as he had been in the morning. And yet she felt that a change had passed over him. Could it be, she wondered, that he had seen that young officer of engineers by her side? Could it be,that he fancied that she was devoting herself to that young man, after the fashion of the greater number of the girls on the same deck in regard to the other young men, who were paid for maintaining St. Helena as a British depen- dency in the face of the other Powers that are consumed with jealousy at our good fortune in possessing such a treasure? Could it be that Charlton was actually jealous of the Sapper ? She rather hoped that it was a case of pique. It would, indeed, be a healthy sign if he were actually piqued on account of the officer’s attentions. She began to feel really happy, as any good girl would, as she became impressed with the idea that, after all, nothing but jealousy was the matter with Charlton. She had not lived very long in the world, but there are some great truths that are apprehended without the aid of a vast or varied experience. One of these—perhaps not the greatest, but still an eminently useful one—is that the course of true love is marvelously accelerated by the intro- duction of a little jealousy. She knew that there is nothing so bad for a husband or so good for a lover as a little jealousy. It acts upon lovers as mulching acts upon roses—it brings them on. She went to sleep, being almost satisfied that the change which she had noticed in Charlton was only the result of a little healthy jealousy. CONMNIELIOOKS (E(@)