[Franklin Kane by Anne Douglas Sedgwick]@TWC D-Link book
Franklin Kane

CHAPTER XIII
13/28

'I should think, after all you've done, you might rest on your oars for a bit,' he remarked.

'It's quite enough, I should think, for a woman to know so much.

If you liked to do anything, you'd do it awfully well, I'm sure.' Ah, what would she not like to do! Help you to steer to any port you wanted was the half-articulate cry of her heart.
'She really is an interesting little person, your Althea,' Gerald said to Helen.

'You were wrong not to find her interesting.

She is so wise and calm and she knows such a lot.' 'I'm too ignorant to be interested in knowledge,' said Helen.
'It's not mere knowledge, it's the gentle temperateness and independence one feels in her.' Helen, somehow, did not feel them, or, at all events, felt other things too much to feel them preeminently.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books