” The two women shook hands. “I think,” he said, “that you have found the real home of the lotus-eaters. Everything was fresh and bright, from the kindly manners of the Frutigen cobbler, who hammered mountain nails into her boots, to the unfamiliar wild flowers that spangled the wayside. Listening on the dimlit landing, he saw Roding’s face muscles tighten. “If you really are going to wait, make yourself as comfortable as you can. But the sheer immensity of the tract! James Boyle was certainly up against it, hard. He remembered also, all at once, the very first words he had heard her speak: “I was not born to this. Here they were regaled with another plentiful meal by the hospitable carpenter, who personally superintended the repast. The two lovers sat together, and their sole discourse turned upon Jack and his ill-fated mother. Indeed, I've heard him say that, but for his wife, he would shelter her under his own roof. But now confound it! how can you prevent it? I will kiss you. Were the parents agreeable? Were they of age? Had the license been procured? But here, in a far country, only the velvet manacles of wedlock were necessary. So while he talked to this girl of work and freedom, his slightly protuberant eyes were noting the gracious balance of her limbs and body across the gate, the fine lines of her chin and neck. She did not think Ann Veronica would do as her companion.
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