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Ax mother to step in from front the house , will ` e ? I 'd wish her to know how we 'm standin ' . '' Mrs. Blanchard appeared with her daughter , and subsequent conversation banished a haunting sense of disloyalty to his brother from Martin 's mind . Chris never looked more splendid or more sweet than in that noon , new come from a walk with Clement Hicks . Martin listened to her voice , stayed as long as he dared , and then departed with many emotions breaking like a storm upon his lonely life . He began to long for her with overwhelming desire . He had scarcely looked at a woman till now , and this brown-eyed girl of twenty , so full of life , so beautiful , set his very soul helplessly adrift on the sea of love .