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Chapter Thirteen
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Mr Jones, after firing his shot over Heyst’s shoulder, had thought it proper to dodge1 away. Like the spectre he was, he noiselessly vanished from the veranda2. Heyst stumbled into the room and looked around. All the objects in there — the books, portrait on the wall — seemed shadowy, unsubstantial, the dumb accomplices3 of an amazing dream-plot ending in an illusory effect of awakening4 and the impossibility of ever closing his eyes again. With dread5 he forced himself to look at the girl. Still in the chair, she was leaning forward far over her knees, and had hidden her face in her hands. Heyst remembered Wang suddenly. How clear all this was — and how extremely amusing! Very.
She sat up a little, then leaned back, and taking her hands from her face, pressed both of them to her breast as if moved to the heart by seeing him there looking at her with a black, horror-struck curiosity. He would have pitied her, if the triumphant6 expression of her face had not given him a shock which destroyed the balance of his feelings. She spoke7 with an accent of wild joy:
“I knew you would come back in time! You are safe now. I have done it! I would never, never have let him —” Her voice died out, while her eyes shone at him as when the sun breaks through a mist. “Never get it back. Oh, my beloved!”
He bowed his head gravely, and said in his polite. Heystian tone:
“No doubt you acted from instinct. Women have been provided with their own weapon. I was a disarmed8 man, I have been a disarmed man all my life as I see it now. You may glory in your resourcefulness and your profound knowledge of yourself; but I may say that the other attitude, suggestive of shame, had its charm. For you are full of charm!”
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