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Lady Ball had now refolded the offensive newspaper, and restored it to her pocket. Perhaps she had done as much with it as she had from the first intended. At any rate, she brought it forth no more, and made no further intentionally direct allusion to it. "I don't suppose you really wish to do any injury to anybody," she said. "Does anybody accuse me of doing them an injury?" Margaret asked.
He had gone back to his birthplace, in Biscay; thence he entered the service of the Cardinal of Burgos; then the cardinal's brother had taken him to the war, and he had served with the Spanish troops; at the battle of St. Quentiny his leg had been shattered by an arquebus ball. So far his recital was the counterpart of the one already heard by the judges from the other man.
It afterwards transpired that his awkward temper had led to a quarrel, during the progress of the ball, between himself and one of the soldier officers from Up-park Camp, which quarrel had terminated in a meeting on the Palisades, the soldier escaping unscathed, whilst Captain Pigot had emerged from the encounter with his arm broken by a bullet from his adversary's pistol.
"Company, 'tention!" The soldiers straightened themselves in a second. "With ball cartridge, load!" It was done with the precision of a machine. Then the lieutenant spoke, in the same clear, crisp, tones that the troops had heard in more than one fierce battle.
I looked about me. There was no one near us, and on the opposite side of the big pavilion the band was playing 'After the Ball. I pressed the silver clasp, and the bag lay open in my hand. 'Gad! exclaimed Dave. 'The woman who owns that is as dainty as a princess. He was quite right.
"Red wins," said the banker, in the same monotonous tone. "Make your game, gentlemen, while the ball rolls." Why need we follow the fortunes of Ernest on this fatal evening, as he yielded, step by step, to the seduction to which he was now exposed for the first time in his life? Long after Steinfort left the gambling house, he continued to play. His luck turned.
The big room at the hotel, in which we have been three times on such different occasions, the long big room where McKeon presided over so many drunken spirits where poor Feemy made her last arrangements with her lover at the ball and where so soon afterwards she was brought forward to give her evidence touching his death, while his cold body was lying dead on the table before her, this long big room is now set apart for yet another purpose.
She did so, but almost immediately turned round and looked out of the window at the sea, and said, "I saw a ship so distinctly I thought it must be a reflection." She looked in the ball again, and said, "It is a large ship, and it is passing a huge rock with a lighthouse on it. I can't see who are on the ship, but the sky is very clear and blue.
I pass over the next few days, therfore, mearly stating that my AFFAIRE DE COUER went on rapidly, and that Leila was sulkey AND HAD NO MALE VISITORS. On the day after the Ball Game Tom took me for a walk, and in a corner of the park, he took my hand and held it for quite a while. He said he had never been a hand-holder, but he guessed it was time to begin.
Once more I heard the voice of John Ball: "Now, brother, I say farewell; for now verily hath the Day of the Earth come, and thou and I are lonely of each other again; thou hast been a dream to me as I to thee, and sorry and glad have we made each other, as tales of old time and the longing of times to come shall ever make men to be.
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