[Foul Play by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookFoul Play CHAPTER XXVI 40/45
Do you think I am all body and no soul, that shelter and warmth and enough to eat can keep my heart from breaking, and my cheeks from blushing night and day? When I wake in the morning I find myself blushing to my fingers' ends." Then she walked away from him.
Then she walked back.
"Oh, my dear father, why did I ever leave you! Keep me here? make me live months and years on this island? Have you sisters? Have you a mother? Ask yourself, is it likely? No; if you will not help me, and they don't love me enough to come and find me and take me home, I'll go to another home without your help or any man's." Then she rose suddenly to her feet.
"I'll tie my clothes tight round me, and fling myself down from that point on to the sharp rocks below.
I'll find a way from this place to heaven, if there's no way from it to those I love on earth." Then she sank down and rocked herself and sobbed hard. The strong passion of this hitherto gentle creature quite frightened her unhappy friend, who knew more of books than women.
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