A sudden knock at the door startled her. She heard the ocean in the distance, waves crashing on the beach, high tide. ’ He bowed slightly, and indicated the house behind them with a wave of his hand. Help—should she need it—from the natives was out of the question. Manning. Before a month has elapsed, your mother will be mine. She stole the opportunity to peer at his departing figure from the closed curtains of the front room window, his shoulders slumped forward, his posture and his ego slightly deflated. The mob pursued the thief-taker and his party all the way, and such missiles as could be collected were hurled at them. A strong arm pulled her closer, and the lips that mouthed her own in tender touches sent her senses reeling. “Thank you,” she said coolly. Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed, in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount.
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