When he allowed it to appear it completely
disguised him in her eyes; it annoyed her so much that at times she
considered herself a much ill-used young person.
It was in this way that the matter stood between them when their long
journey was ended and they reached London. He was miserable,
desperate, and hopeless; the girl was firm in that she would not
marry him, and her mother, who respected both the depth of Corbin's
feelings and her daughter's reticence, and who had watched the
struggle with a troubled heart, was only thankful that they were to
part, and that it was at an end. Corbin had no idea where he would go
nor what he would do. He recognized that to cross the ocean with them
would only subject his love to fresh distress and humiliation, and he
had determined to put as much space between him and Miss Warriner as
the surface of the globe permitted. The Philippines seemed to offer a
picturesque retreat for a broken life. He decided he would go there
and enlist and have himself shot. He was uncertain whether he would
follow in the steps of his Revolutionary ancestors and join the men
who were struggling for their liberty and independence, or his
fellow-Americans; but that he would get shot by one side or the other
he was determined.
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