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"I wish you'd had them mended," she murmured. "Don't worry come to tea tomorrow, with Edgar." "Shall we?" "Do about four. I'll come to meet you." "Very well." She was pleased. They went across the dark yard to the gate. Looking across, he saw through the uncurtained window of the kitchen the heads of Mr. and Mrs. Leivers in the warm glow. It looked very cosy.
Now the Master-Maid had put on that day a beautiful dress of rich silk, and when the Prince's wife saw it she went to the Master-Maid and said: "I should like that dress. Will you not sell it to me?" "Yes," said the Master-Maid, "but at a price you are not likely to give." "What do you want for it?" said the Princess. "I want to spend one night in the room of your bridegroom, Prince Edgar."
"Do you mean to wait for the attack of the Mahdi's men here or to go to meet them?" Edgar asked after a long pause. "If they come here too numerous to fight we must fly; but if they are not too strong we will give them battle here. Why should we go to meet them?" "It is for you to decide," Edgar said. "I know nothing of your Arab ways of fighting.
Their attention had first been called to Edgar by his getting a first-class in the examination, which at once stamped him as having had an education greatly superior to that of the majority of recruits.
Sir Hugh Calverley succeeded in obtaining a footing, but for a time he stood almost alone. Two or three other knights, however, sprang up. Just as they did so one of the ladders broke with the weight upon it, throwing all heavily to the ground. Edgar and Albert were with a party of archers who were keeping up a rain of arrows.
She refused; and I unwillingly donned a cloak, and took my umbrella to accompany her on a stroll to the bottom of the park: a formal walk which she generally affected if low-spirited and that she invariably was when Mr. Edgar had been worse than ordinary, a thing never known from his confession, but guessed both by her and me from his increased silence and the melancholy of his countenance.
"I had to leave the place where I was, because my fellow passengers didn't seem to mind if they pushed me off. A stranger doesn't get much consideration in this country." The girl looked up at him consideringly and answered, through the roar of the engine: "You may sit here, if you'll stop criticizing us." "It's quite fair," Edgar protested, as he took his place by her side.
One of these was the corporal in charge of the barrack-room occupied by Edgar, for he had, since he had been regularly appointed to a troop, left the quarters he first occupied with the band for those allotted to troop D. Corporals, however, have but little power in a barrack-room.
"Shall I go with you, captain, to translate," Edgar volunteered. The captain gladly assented, and the boat was at once lowered, and they were rowed to the Tigre. On ascending the deck they were taken to the captain. The latter glanced at Edgar and said, "Why, surely you are English?" "I am, sir. My father was a merchant at Alexandria.
Perhaps mamma and I can do something for Edgar; we will try, you may lie sure. Good-by, dearest; I shall see you again very soon." Ten days later, Polly stood on the deck of the Orizaba just at dusk, looking back on lovely Santa Barbara as it lay in the lap of the foothills freshened by the first rains.
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