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I warned Laura very seriously against any precipitate attempts, for I saw it was probable this incautiousness would increase, provided it were encouraged. No good opportunity offered till this morning, when Laura was suffered to take the key of my prison chamber, and let herself in and out. The moment she told me of it I enquired what other obstacles there were.
"Did you 'ear," enquired a Cockney who came next in the line, "that all wounded are going to 'ave a nice little gold stripe to wear a stripe for every wound?" There was much interest at this. "That'll be fine," observed a man of Kent, who had been out since Mons, and been wounded three times. "Folks'll know now that I'm not a Derby recruit."
He knew that Peter Fleming was working that night, and had stopped on an extra shift to repair a road, by special instructions from Walker; so Geordie went direct to Fleming's house and knocked at the door. After an interval a woman's voice enquired, "Wha's that?" and Geordie thought there was anxiety in it. "Open the door," said Geordie quietly.
"Well, if they ain't they ought to be," was the response of Tom Drops. At this moment a very stout and elaborately turbaned Dowager passed slowly from her brougham along the matting and entered the hall. "Is she a hangel too, do you think? Don't look much like one now," enquired the young butcher. "In course not," said Tom, "they loses all the hangel when they marries, leastways so I have heard.
Phinuit enquired; and added, as Monk nodded and cast about for the visored white cap of his office: "Didn't know pilots were such early birds." "They're not, as a rule. But if you treat 'em right, they'll listen to reason." The captain graphically rubbed a thumb over two fingers, donned his cap, buttoned up his tunic, and strode forth with an impressive gait. "Still wakeful?"
There arrived in Nyack late one Saturday night, a man of tall, slender figure, dressed in a suit of plain black, and having the appearance of a young clergyman just from the country. He put up at Titus Bright's inn, gave out that he was from Dogtown, Massachusetts, and after partaking of supper, enquired of the landlord where he could find the Reverend, so to speak, Warren Holbrook.
Spragg began reproachfully; but Mrs. Heeny, heedless of their bickerings, was pursuing her own train of thought. "What Popple? Claud Walsingham Popple the portrait painter?" "Yes I suppose so. He said he'd like to paint me. Mabel Lipscomb introduced him. I don't care if I never see him again," the girl said, bathed in angry pink. "Do you know him, Mrs. Heeny?" Mrs. Spragg enquired.
You dear, discreet person, when I think of the strange places where I have danced with you Perhaps it is better not to remember!" They moved away to the music and later on found their way into the garden. The Comtesse was a little thoughtful. "You are a great friend of Anna's, are you not?" she enquired. "We are engaged to be married," he answered simply. She made a little grimace.
"I don't see why I shouldn't trust him, do you?" Henrietta enquired of Isabel. "I don't see what Mr. Bantling could do to you," Isabel obligingly answered; "but, if you like, we'll walk with you till you find your cab." "Never mind; we'll go alone. Come on, Mr. Bantling, and take care you get me a good one." Mr.
He made for the moment no further reference to their great question, but dipped again into shallower and safer waters. But he wished to know when she was to leave Rome, and on her mentioning the limit of her stay declared he was glad it was still so distant. "Why do you say that if you yourself are only passing through?" she enquired with some anxiety.
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