A Struggle for a Ring — page 144: what you’re looking at

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ms 4) 140 A DREAM BY THE SEA. She looked up at him, her eyes filled with love and laughter. She liked him exceedingly. ‘“Do you not know what to do if you want the light?” she asked. ‘‘ You must follow it.” ‘‘But its rays are shifting, Lady Ethel; they never fall long in the same place.” ‘*You cannot tell that, Lord Carsdale,” she replied ; and she thought to herself how strange it was—she had never shown so much kindness to any man before, and yet he did not seem to understand it. ‘‘T have shown him so many marks of favor,” she thought to herself, ‘‘and yet he does not seem to know it.” ‘‘T shall mever see the sea, either in sunlight or in moonlight,” he continued, ‘‘without thinking of you; and when the stars shine on it, as they are shining now, I shall see your face with that same smile on it, the same light in your eyes, the wave of your hair—I shall see you, and call you in my theughts ‘My dream by the sea.’ ” _ “Shall I always be a dream, then?” she asked. ‘‘ You speak, Lord Carsdale, as though you were going to bid me an eternal farewell.” ‘‘So I am,” he thought to himself; to her he said simply, ‘‘I am going to Gibraltar, as you know, ‘Lady Ethel.” ‘‘You are going because you choose to go,” she said ; ‘*you can do just as you like. If you prefer to remain Ya England, you can remain. Besides, Gibraltar is not distant, and you can come home when you like.” There were a few minutes of dead silence, while the tide rippled in slowly and the stars gleamed in the water. In that moment, had he been free, he would have asked her to marry him, and she would have consented; but the waves rippled on, the stars shone, the wind whispered, a os (oy payicel exore) cS (ele)