“No, I must have had hope lurking somewhere too. You
simply can’t. Still—you must learn for yourself. And for that I am connected with the Valades, after what
you have told us has happened to them, the Mother Abbess will not consent that
I remain in France. Stanley decided to treat that as irrelevant. "
"Understand what?"
"You or this girl. I’m a man, and
I know what I mean. “You’ve no right to badger me like this, Veronica,” he said. Supposing that was it; at least, a solution to part of this
amazing riddle? Supposing her father had made her assist him in the care of the
derelicts solely to fill her with loathing and abhorrence for mankind?
"Didn't you despise the men your father brought home—the beachcombers?"
"No. "
"An excellent maxim!" replied his wife, approvingly; "the best I ever heard you
utter. I thought if you were living, and not captured, I
should find you here,—and I was right. Peste, she had forgot the sword. She had,
by the magic of recollection, set the picture of the typhoon between herself and
her table companions: the terrible rollers thundering on the white shore, the
deafening bellow of the wind, the bending and snapping palms, the thatches of
the native huts scattering inland, the blur of sand dust, and those two outcasts
defying the elements. You will make her suffer.
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