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Chapter Three
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That morning, as on all the others of the full tale of mornings since his return with the girl to Samburan, Heyst came out on the veranda1 and spread his elbows on the railing, in an easy attitude of proprietorship2. The bulk of the central ridge3 of the island cut off the bungalow4 from sunrises, whether glorious or cloudy, angry or serene5. The dwellers6 therein were debarred from reading early the fortune of the new-born day. It sprang upon them in its fulness with a swift retreat of the great shadow when the sun, clearing the ridge, looked down, hot and dry, with a devouring7 glare like the eye of an enemy. But Heyst, once the Number One of this locality, while it was comparatively teeming8 with mankind, appreciated the prolongation of early coolness, the subdued9, lingering half-light, the faint ghost of the departed night, the fragrance10 of its dewy, dark soul captured for a moment longer between the great glow of the sky and the intense blaze of the uncovered sea.
It was naturally difficult for Heyst to keep his mind from dwelling11 on the nature and consequences of this, his latest departure from the part of an unconcerned spectator. Yet he had retained enough of his wrecked12 philosophy to prevent him from asking himself consciously how it would end. But at the same time he could not help being temperamentally, from long habit and from set purpose, a spectator still, perhaps a little less
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intimacy
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inexplicable
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abysmal
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attentively
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sensuous
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snares
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harmoniousness
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decomposed
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