Part 32 (1/2)
The close connection which had existed between theht that this ht perhaps remove that extraordinary pohich he felt that she exerted over hi forward toward a ain When with her he found the joy that flowed from her presence to be an to feel alarmed at his oeakness
The 6th of March came, and they left in the shi+p _Juno_ for London
Now their intercourse was like that of the old days on board the _Falcon_
”It is like the _Falcon_,” said Beatrice, on the first evening ”Let us forget all about the journey over the sea, and our stay on the island”
”I can never forget that I owe my life to you,” said Brandon, vehe eyes, which yet were softened by a certain eet!
Twice you saved me from a fearful death, and then you toiled to save ive up a thousand lives”--said Brandon, in a low voice, while his eyes were illumined with a passion which had never before been peret beyond control, but now rose visibly, and irresistibly
”If you have a life to give,” said Beatrice, calaze with a full look of tender syiven to that _purpose_ of yours to which you are devoted”
”You refuse it, then!” cried Brandon, vehemently and reproachfully
Beatrice returned his reproachful gaze with one equally reproachful, and raising her calm eyes to Heaven, said, in a treht to say so--least of all to _me_ I said what you feel and know; and it is this, that others require your life, in co Ah, my friend,” she continued, in tones of unutterable sadness, ”let us be friends here at least, on the sea, for e reach England we must be separated for everony
”For everuish
”Do you feel very eager to get to England?” asked Brandon, after a long silence
”No”
”Why not?”
”Because I know that there is sorrow for me there”
”If our boat had been destroyed on the shore of that island,” he asked, in alrieved?”
”No”
”The present is better than the future Oh, that my dream had continued forever, and that I had never awaked to the bitterness of life!”
”That,” said Beatrice, with ayou”
”Yet that ht,” continued Brandon, in a s except you”
They stood in silence, so at one another, sometilooe passed on until at last the English shores were seen, and they sailed up the Channel a shi+ps that pass to and fro from the metropolis of the world
”To-morroe part,” said Beatrice, as she stood with Brandon on the quarter-deck