1. She taught him how to sail a proa, how to hack open a milk-coconut, how to relish bamboo sprouts. She had started wearing the dresses he bought for her, the white and blue shift he said, “brings out the color in your eyes”. She tended the twins while the Clotilde was in Sebastian’s private chambers, a place she gave a wide berth. I was compelled to run away. A constant attendant at court, he had the mortification to see every one promoted but himself, and thus bewails his ill-luck. Then came the javelin-men, walking four abreast, and lastly, a long line of constables, marching in the same order. And in these crowded four weeks, what had she learned? That all horizons were lies: that smiles and handshakes and goodbyes and welcomes were lies: that there were really no to-morrows, only a treadmill of to-days: and that out of these lies and mirages she had plucked a bitter truth—she was alone. He had absorbed her in a single glance, and was now defining her as he worked. She was clad in fresh linen, but still wore the riding-habit she had appropriated, having sponged out the spots of blood late last night and left it to dry in the kitchens. Gosse would have killed me, and perhaps in the fight I might kill him.
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