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The Sea-Wolf

CHAPTER XXXV
12/23

Look at those three-cornered tears.

And such a waist! It would not require a Sherlock Holmes to deduce that you have been cooking over a camp-fire, to say nothing of trying out seal-blubber.
And to cap it all, that cap! And all that is the woman who wrote 'A Kiss Endured.'" She made me an elaborate and stately courtesy, and said, "As for you, sir--" And yet, through the five minutes of banter which followed, there was a serious something underneath the fun which I could not but relate to the strange and fleeting expression I had caught in her eyes.

What was it?
Could it be that our eyes were speaking beyond the will of our speech?
My eyes had spoken, I knew, until I had found the culprits out and silenced them.

This had occurred several times.

But had she seen the clamour in them and understood?
And had her eyes so spoken to me?
What else could that expression have meant--that dancing, tremulous light, and a something more which words could not describe.


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