” “Friend! What have a man and a girl in common to make them friends? Ask that lover of yours! And even with friends, would you have it all Give on one side and all Take on the other?. ‘What now?’ ‘Now,’ she answered flatly, ‘you will please to tell me at once why you have come here. Before midnight, your nephew shall be safe beneath the hatches of the Zeeslang. Always I have said I will take care of myself, and I have done so. But there were two places of punishment which merit some notice from their peculiarity. Still—I don’t know whether I quite like—Something ramshackle about those people, Vee. It was very pretty and very dainty while it lasted, but we played it with our eyes open, and we perfectly understood the game—both of us. A ragged gray moustache drooped from the corners of his mouth and a ragged wisp of whisker hung from his chin. “One has to live and learn,” she remarked, with a passable imitation of her father’s manner. She wanted to cry out upon herself for the uttermost fool in existence. Was it that the struggle of things to survive produced as a sort of necessary byproduct these intense preferences and appreciations, or was it that some mystical outer thing, some great force, drove life beautyward, even in spite of expediency, regardless of survival value and all the manifest discretions of life? She went to Capes with that riddle and put it to him very carefully and clearly, and he talked well—he always talked at some length when she took a difficulty to him—and sent her to a various literature upon the markings of butterflies, the incomprehensible elaboration and splendor of birds of Paradise and hummingbirds’ plumes, the patterning of tigers, and a leopard’s spots. The haste to send her upon her way now had but one interpretation—the recognition of his own immediate danger, the fear that if this tender association continued, he would end in offering her a calamity quite as impossible as that which had happened—the love of a man who was in all probability older than her father! The hurt was no less intensive because it was so ridiculous.
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