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"If you will oblige us with it to-day we won't leave any to pain you in the winter." "For shame," cried Oliver, "when you know she has lost her stockings and her cloak already! And all out of kindness! I would not drink a drop of her cherry-brandy, I am sure." "Then you shall, Oliver, for saying so, and taking my part," said Ailwin.
It ran off the porch and dripped on the creepers, and from the creepers upon the edge of Grace's cloak and skirts. "The rain is wetting your dress; please do come in," he said. "It really makes my heart ache to let you stay here." Immediately inside the front door was the door of his sitting-room; he flung it open, and stood in a coaxing attitude.
Further he whispered, "And your System: if you would be brave to the world, have courage to cast the dream of it out of you: relinquish an impossible project; see it as it is dead: too good for men!" "Ay!" muttered the baronet: "all who would save them perish on the Cross!" And so he sat nursing the devil. By and by he took his lamp, and put on the old cloak and cap, and went to gaze at Ripton.
At last there came a knock upon the door, a cloak was thrown about her from behind, a heavy veil was drooped about her golden hair, and she was led, by whom she knew not, to the street, where a finely appointed carriage was waiting for her. No sooner had she entered it than she was driven rapidly through the darkness to the beautifully carved entrance of a palace.
"I want you, brothers Peter and John," was the reply, and they saw that the slim young man was Masouda. "What! you English innocents, do you not know a woman through a camel-hair cloak?" she added as she led the way to the stable. "Well, so much the better, for it shows that my disguise is good.
The brief tale called "The Cloak" or "The Overcoat" has great significance in the history of Russian fiction, for all Russian novelists have been more or less influenced by it.
'Indeed, sir, that is more than I can say, he answered, looking curiously at us, and thinking, I doubt not, that with my shabby cloak and fine horse, and mademoiselle's mask and spattered riding-coat, we were an odd couple. 'There is not an inn which is not full to the garrets nay, and the stables; and, what is more, people are chary of taking strangers in. These are strange times.
Deftly the Weaver began to weave, crooning the mystic weaving-song meanwhile, so that the magic of its words might sink into every part of the Cloak, and make its power certain.
Trippet; had promised her twelve yards of the lace she coveted so much; had vowed that the child should have as much more for a cloak; and had not left her until he had sat with her for an hour, or more, over a bowl of punch, which he made on purpose for her. Mr. Trippet stayed too. "A mighty pleasant man," said she; "only not very wise, and seemingly a good deal in liquor."
And yet though the short cloak and the leather wallet were no more, he was a true gleeman, being alike poet, jester, and newsman of the people.
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