Her hair
was gathered up behind, in a sort of pad, according to the then prevailing mode;
and she wore a muslin cap, and pinners with crow-foot edging. That
was something in his favour. There was first the Avenue,
which ran in a consciously elegant curve from the railway station into an
undeveloped wilderness of agriculture, with big, yellow brick villas on either
side, and then there was the pavement, the little clump of shops about the postoffice, and under the railway arch was a congestion of workmen’s dwellings. She was always asking questions
about her mother and supplying the answers. ”
Her hand hung over the side of her chair nearest to him. Something namelessly abhorrent in the eyes of those men…!
She knew what arms were for—to fold and embrace and to hold one tightly; but
why men wished to kiss women was still a profound mystery. Carried out to sea by Van Galgebrok,
and thrown overboard, while struggling with the waves, he had been picked up
by a French fishing-boat, and carried to Ostend.
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