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CHAPTER VIII A RUN ON THE BEACH
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THE girl’s kiss was so spontaneous and so natural that it could not convey any false impression to me. It was a manifest expression of gratitude1, and that only. Nevertheless it set my heart beating and my veins2 tingling3 with delight. From that instant I did not feel quite a stranger to the giver; nor could I ever feel as quite a stranger again. Something of the same idea may have passed through the girl’s mind, for she blushed and looked around her shyly; but, with a proud lifting of her head and a slight stamp of her foot on the rock, she put the matter behind her, for the present. The old lady, in the midst of her concern for her companion and herself, was able to throw a glance of disapproval4 on me, as though I had done something wrong; from which I gathered that the younger lady was not only very dear to her, but held in some sort of unusual respect as well. It was peculiar5 that she should in the midst of her present condition be able to give a thought to so trivial a thing. For though death did not now stare her in the face, she was cold and wet; the rock she stood on was hard and slippery, and the foam6 of the breaking waves was even now curling around her feet.
She looked about her apprehensively7; she did not know whether or no we were on another isolated8 rock. I reassured9 her on this subject, and we scrambled10 as quickly as we could over the rocks on our way shoreward. The[67] elder lady took up most of my time. Here and there in a difficult place, for the wind by now blew so strongly that one found it hard to balance oneself as is necessary when walking on rocks, I offered the younger my hand. At first she firmly declined; but then, manifestly thinking it churlish, she relented and let me help her. That kiss was evidently
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gratitude
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veins
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disapproval
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peculiar
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apprehensively
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ominous
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woe
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groaned
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delightful
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torment
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apprehension
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metallic
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shimmer
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stolidly
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spoke
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accounting
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fixed
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inquisitive
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pathos
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merged
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wringing
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granite
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plural
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affected
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bliss
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breach
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reticence
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pretences
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proceeding
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toils
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appalling
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interpretation
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forth
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thoroughly
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fatigue
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eyebrows
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stiffening
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demurely
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noted
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cosy
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premature
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homely
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enjoyment
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doze
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