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certitude would have made her put up orse tor tormented She felt also helpless, as if the

whole enterprise had been too much for her This is the sort of

conviction whicha fatalist

Whatwere the necessities of daily life,

the intercourse of current trifles That naturally had to go on They

wished good ether to a,

especially at first What frightened her most was the duplicity of her

father, at least what looked like duplicity, when she remembered his

persistent, insistent whispers on deck However her father was a

taciturn person as far back as she could remember him best--on the

Parade It was she who chattered, never troubling herself to discover

whether he was pleased or displeased And now she couldn't fathohts Neither did she chatter to him Anthony with a forced

friendly smile as if frozen to his lips see ot hi that Flora had to recall hiized by a faint as if inward

ejaculation "Beg your pardon, Captain" Naturally she addressed Anthony

as Roderick and he addressed her as Flora This was all the acting that

was necessary to judge fro twitch of the oldthe rare "Rodericks" he had sorimace as faint and faded and colourless as his whole stiff

personality