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He upbraided himself What else could he have expected? He had rushed

in like a ruffian; he had dragged the poor defenceless thing by the hair

of her head, as it were, on board that ship It was really atrocious

Nothing assured him that his person could be attractive to this or any

other woh in themselves to make

anyone odious He must have been bereft of his senses Shecould make up for such brutality And yet

somehow he resented this very attitude which seemed to him completely

justifiable Surely he was not too monstrous (morally) to be looked at

frankly sometimes But no! She wouldn't Well, perhaps, so for forgiveness With the

repulsion she felt for his person she would certainly uarded words, the most careful advances Never! Never!

It would occur to Anthony at the end of such meditations that death was

not an unfriendly visitor after all No wonder then that even young

Powell, his faculties having been put on the alert, began to think that

there was soiven him his chance in

life Yes, decidedly, his captain was "strange" There was so that his young and

candid eyes were in the presence of a passion profound, tyrannical and

itself

helpless and dis itself incurable

Powell had never before felt thiswhen it had been his good fortune to h