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CHAPTER XVI Popularity
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And now behold1 C. B. launched upon a totally new series of adventures, but still with that same quiet mind which accepted the events of each new day as being all ordained2 by God, and consequently fraught3 with blessing4, no matter how hard it might be for him to see the benefit at the time. Hitherto I have said nothing about his feelings with regard to those whom he so fondly loved and from whom he had of course heard no word. But when he left them both he and they had resigned themselves to a complete separation without any communication until God should please to reunite them again. Letters never came to that isolated5, self-contained little community, who indeed seldom had any interest outside of their own boundaries.
Yet it must not be supposed that for one day, hardly for a waking hour, he ever forgot them. In his lonely vigils at the mast-head, or when by himself at night, he looked out over the wide expanse of sea, he always formed a mental picture of the peaceful happy home he had left, saw his mother and father and friends at their simple tasks, heard their united praises arising in the sweet evenings, imagined their discussions concerning his whereabouts, until he almost fancied himself among them in spirit, so vivid was his inner vision. And often it was with a physical pang7 that he came back to his present surroundings.
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It must not for a moment be supposed either that he felt great delight at leaving the ship, for he was in no way weary of his life on board. But he calmly awaited each development as being just the right thing for him, and indeed felt that in this latest move he was likely to be of more use than he had ever been before. Besides, as I have before hinted, he and his fellow-islanders were passionately8 attached to the mother-country which they had never seen, and had consequently idealized almost out of all reasonable recognition. The nearest approach to
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