It knew no body.
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world was not. It knew only itself and the vastness and profundity of the quiet and the dark.
Chapter 39
THE DAY CAME FOR OUR DEPARTURE. There was no longer anything to detain us on Endeavor
Island. The Ghost's stumpy masts were in place, her crazy sails bent. All my handiwork was
strong, none of it beautiful; but I knew that it would work,
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as I looked at it. 'I did it! I did it! With my own hands I did it!' I wanted to cry
aloud. But Maud and I had a way of voicing each other's thoughts; and she said, as we
prepared to hoist the mainsail: 'To think, Humphrey, you did it all with your own
cheap uggs online hands!' 'But there were two other hands,' I answered- 'two small hands. And don't say
that was also a phrase of your father's.' She shook her head and laughed, and held her
hands up for inspection. 'I can never get them clean again,' she wailed, 'nor soften the
weather-beat.' 'Then dirt and weather-beat shall be your guerdon of honor,' I said,
holding them in
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had she not swiftly withdrawn them. Our comradeship was becoming tremulous. I had
mastered my love long and well, but now it was mastering me. Willfully had it disobeyed and
won my eyes to speech, and now it was winning my tongue- aye, and my lips, for
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this moment to kiss the two small hands which had toiled so faithfully and hard. And I, too,
was mad. There was a cry in my being like bugles calling me to her. And there was a wind
blowing upon me which I could not resist, swaying the very body of me till I leaned toward
her,
uggs discount all unconscious that I leaned. And she knew it. She could not but know it as she swiftly
drew away her hands, and yet could not forbear one quick searching look before she turned
away her eyes. By means of deck-tackles I had arranged to carry the halyards forward to
