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Apropos, what has become of
Marten?"
"Left the island, I hear."
"Quick work. Now I wonder why?"
Everybody wondered at Marten's precipitate departure. Even Angelina
wondered.
She just wondered.
Had he known that she wondered, he might have been tempted to prolong
his stay. But Marten was too young to be a practical psychologist. He
had lived for half a day in terror of what he called "the inevitable
reaction," unaware of the fact that certain people do not suffer from
reactions and too engrossed in mineralogy to have learnt, from a study
of other sciences, that Angelina was one of them. She had passed that
stage, with Homeric laughter, long before his appearance on Nepenthe.
She just wondered, nowadays.
Scared, as though the avenging Furies were at his heels, he quitted the
scene of his nocturnal romance, leaving half his geological projects
incomplete. Had he taken the amiable Don Francesco into his confidence
he might have heard something to his advantage. But the scientist could
not endure the sight of a Christian priest.


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