He removed his pipe and nodded at the foolscap book . `` What do you think of it ? '' he said . `` I think it is wonderful . Paul is a very clever child . '' `` I 've often thought so , '' said Stephen laconically . He thrust his hands into his pockets and gazed moodily out to sea . Miss Trevor had never before had an opportunity to talk to him in Paul 's absence and she determined to make the most of it . `` I want to know something about Paul , '' she said , `` all about him . Is he any relation to you ? '' `` No . I expected to marry his mother once , though , '' said Stephen unemotionally . His hand in his pocket was clutching his pipe fiercely , but Miss Trevor could not know that . `` She was a shore girl and very pretty . Well , she fell in love with a young fellow that came teaching up t ' the harbour school and he with her . They got married and she went away with him . He was a good enough sort of chap . I know that now , though once I was n't disposed to think much good of him . But 't was a mistake all the same ; Rachel could n't live away from the shore . She fretted and pined and broke her heart for it away there in his world .
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