I bent over him. Life! Life and love! It makes me want to be always young, always strong, always devoting my life—and dying splendidly. Sometimes I try to talk. Why had she married him, off-hand, like that? She did not love him, or he knew nothing of love signs. So, in broken, rather breathless phrases, he told his story; and when he had done, he laid his arms upon the table and bent his head to them. When a mere child she fixed her affections upon a youth named Thames Darrell, whom her father brought up, and who perished, it is supposed, about nine years ago; and she has determined to remain faithful to his memory. It was something that would create a mutual claim, a relationship. A beachcomber in embryo, and she had lent a hand through habit as much as through pity. Sometimes I think she’s tired of us. The inherent conscience keeps most of us away from jail, from court, from the gallows; the acquired conscience helps us to preserve the little amenities of daily life. "Is it a bargain?" "Take half of my estate—take all—my life, if you will—I am weary of it!" cried Trenchard passionately. Between his lectures—and primarily he was an itinerant lecturer—he manoeuvred in vain to acquire some facts regarding the girl, who she was, whence she had come; but always she countered with: "What is that?" Guileless she might be; simple, never. Barleycorn had sent to the mat for the count of nine: unless the young fool's daddy had a bundle of coin. After fifteen years, to find that peculiarly Occidental attribute—college loyalty—still alive in his heart! A Western idea that had survived; an idea that was merely the flower of youthful enthusiasm! With his hands still in his sleeves, his chin down in speculation over this phenomenon, he continued his patrol.
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