When are you to be -- married ? '' `` The 12th of September . '' Benjamin did not wince . He turned away and looked out across the sea for a few moments . The last agony of his great renunciation was upon him . Then he turned and held out his hand . `` For her sake , '' he said earnestly . Frank Braithwaite put his slender white hand into the fisherman 's hard brown palm . There were tears in both men 's eyes . They parted in silence . On the morning of the 12th of September Benjamin Selby went out to the fishing grounds as usual . The catch was good , although the season was almost over . In the afternoon the French Canadians went to sleep . Benjamin intended to row down the shore for salt . He stood by his dory , ready to start , but he seemed to be waiting for something . At last it came : a faint train whistle blew , a puff of white smoke floated across a distant gap in the sandhills . Mary Stella was gone at last -- gone forever from his life . The honest blue eyes looking out over the sea did not falter ; bravely he faced his desolate future . The white gulls soared over the water , little swishing ripples lapped on the sand , and through all the gentle , dreamy noises of the shore came the soft , unceasing murmur of the gulf . Millicent 's Double -LSB- Illustration : '' ` NONSENSE , ' SAID MILLICENT , POINTING TO THEIR REFLECTED FACES '' -RSB- When Millicent Moore and Worth Gordon met each other on the first day of the term in the entrance hall of the Kinglake High School , both girls stopped short , startled .
Millicent Moore had never seen Worth Gordon before , but Worth Gordon 's face she had seen every day XXXXX her life , looking at her out of her own mirror !
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