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The hour following their disappearance from the Cathedral was spent in a brief and simple service of thanksgiving for the victory which had wiped the stain of foreign invasion from the soil of Britain in the blood of the invader, and given the control of the destinies of the Western world finally into the hands of the dominant race of earth.
The information anent the Narcissus had been brief but illuminating: She had been chartered to carry horses for the British Government from Galveston to Le Havre, and the word to get her at all hazards had been passed to the submarine flotilla.
And the span of his life, from the boyhood which he could recall so vividly here among these children, seemed brief to him as a summer's day, only a part of a mighty whole made up of the innumerable lives, the many generations, of his family, his own flesh and blood, come out of a past he could never know, and going on without him now, branching, dividing, widening out to what his eyes would never see.
At last, in that strange beautiful way that she had, control seemed suddenly to come to her; she stood up and looked as though she had, in that brief moment, lived a thousand years of sorrow. "You will come back?" "I swear that I will come back to you." "I I will wait for you." There, in the dim, unreal room, as they had stood once before, now, standing, they were wrapt together.
It was the perpetual key-word of his thoughts; only when he had heard it from his own lips did he realise what he had done. When he had given the brief answer to her question he could find no more words. But Adela spoke. 'What do you wish to say to me, Mr. Eldon? Whether or no he interpreted her voice by his own feelings, she seemed to plead with him to be manly and respect her womanhood.
Having said these words in brief as also in detail, unto those heroes, Bhima possessed of wisdom, surrounded by friends, smeared with sandal-paste, and adorned with excellent garlands and ornaments, remained silent.
The service was reverent, the catechising good and effective, the sermon brief, and summing up in a spiritual and devotional manner; Magdalen was happy, and trusted that Paulina was so likewise.
If this very interesting city did not possess any special attraction in itself, the unsurpassed scenery to be enjoyed on the route thither would amply repay the traveler for the brief journey.
"Well, lads, take care of these fellows," he cried, crushing down the feelings that had been for a brief moment awakened in his heart by the Indian's words, "and give them plenty to eat and smoke." So saying he went off with the packet, followed by Frank.
Then she read on: "I hoped for a brief furlough, but got none, and so I shall apply to memory and imagination for frequent leave of absence, from duty. "Yours, "To pet a little the idea! That is so like John. Well, yes I don't mind being petted as a substitute and at a distance. It's rather confusing."
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