God is a jealous God, and He turned upon me relentlessly. His business has thriven; legacies have unexpectedly dropped into his lap; and, to crown all, he has made a large fortune by a lucky speculation in South-Sea stock,—made it, too, where so many others have lost fortunes, your humble servant amongst the number—ha! ha! In a word, Sir, Mr. No one ate with as much passionate gusto as a teenager could. "It's of no use," observed Thames quietly, but with a look that chilled the little damsel's heart;—"my resolution is taken. The chance had gone. And this was an adventure of which he had dreamed from boyhood: aboard a windjammer on the South Seas. "I have nearly done," replied the stranger. He felt her relaxation and let go of her wrists. He remembered also, all at once, the very first words he had heard her speak: “I was not born to this. As Leonardo had himself pronounced, who better than a mountebank to teach of the perils awaiting the unwary? Who better than a wastrel to demonstrate the worth of thrift? And who could instruct better in the matter of affections than one who had thrown them away? ‘If he had loved me,’ she said, in the flat tone she had learned to use to conceal her vulnerable heart, ‘he would have left me at Remenham House to live a life of an English lady.
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