I met him face to face and , Helen , it was Miles Lesley ! `` For one minute earth , sky and sea reeled around me . The next , I remembered all , and turned and walked away . He did not follow . `` You may be sure that I now religiously avoid that part of the shore . We have never met since , and he has made no effort to see me . He clearly shows that he despises me . Well , I despise myself . I am very unhappy , Nell , and not only on my own account , for I feel that if Miles had never met me , his mother would not now be breaking her heart for her absent boy . My sorrow has taught me to understand hers , and I no longer resent her pride . `` You need hardly be told after this that I leave here in another week . I can not fabricate a decent excuse to go sooner , or I would . '' In the cool twilight Ethel went with Agnes Bentley to mail her letter . As they stopped at the door of the little country store , a young man came around the corner . It was Young Si . He was in his rough fishing suit , with a big herring net trailing over his shoulder , but no disguise could effectually conceal his splendid figure . Agnes sprang forward eagerly . `` Si , where have you been ? Why have you never I been up to see us for so long ? '' Young Si made no verbal reply .
He merely lifted his cap XXXXX formal politeness and turned on his heel .
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