Beadle's Dime Novels No. 208: The Ocean Outlaw — page 22: what you’re looking at

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- 24 ; THE OCEAN OUTLAW. him, the evening had passed much more pleasantly than was anticipated. He had found Ethel posse&sed of a de- gree of intelligence and refinement that he little expected to find developed in one who had passed her life so exclu- sively. He thought it a strange plant to spring from such a soil, and it was with a feeling of regret, that he reflect- ed on the improbability of seeing her again, as his vessel was expected to sail the next day. The more he thought of the matter, the more strange did it appear to him, that one, with her refined tastes and ladylike accomplish- ments, could be the afflanced bride of such a man as Granger, whose face and figure was, in his opinion, his only recommendation to a woman like Ethel Gray. Traly, he thought to himself, love is blind, not tosee through a character so transparent. But after-experience showed Lieutenant Howard that Granger was a more accomplished deceiver than he took him to bewand was even able to mystify as wise a person as himself, when occasion re- quired it. As for our heroine, she could not help being pleased with the gentlemanly manners and polished ad- dress of her visitor, independent of the feeling of yester- day, she felt toward him as the preserver of her life; and yery possibly she might have entertained sentiments of a more tender nature. If so, it was a subordinate feeling, of which she was unconscious at the time; simply a seed sosvn, that, under favorable circumstances, might take root and spring up. COMME DOO <SaeOlin -