26/42 In the afternoon, with Gertrude, he got into one of the boats and floated about with idly-dipping oars. They talked a good deal of Mr.Brand--though not exclusively. "It was really heroic." Gertrude sat musing, with her eyes upon the ripples. "That was what he wanted to be; he wanted to do something fine." "He won't be comfortable till he has married us," said Felix. "So much the better." "He wanted to be magnanimous; he wanted to have a fine moral pleasure. |