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"Good God!" he said, and stared at her with open nostrils, from which indignant air exploded in gusts. She began to make peace from that moment, feeling that the limit had been reached. Indeed she was rather anxious. The thrust appeared to be mortal. Mr. Gurd rolled in his chair, and after his oath, could find no further words. She declared sorrow. "There forgive me I didn't mean to say that.
He's told me since that he never really feared Gurd, because he looked ahead and felt that two such natures as mine and Richard's were never meant to join in matrimony. Looking back, I see Job's every move and the brain behind it. Talk about Parliament! If Bridport was to send Legg there, they'd be sending one that's ten times wiser than Raymond Ironsyde and ten times deeper.
"Give me sea-room here, give me sea-room," said the hero; "and jest wait till I git my spavins warmed up a little!" A wide, clear swath was cut from the billows that surrounded Captain Pharo. "Now then," said he, pulling his pipe from his pocket, and drawing a match in the usual informal way; "Poo! poo! hohum! strike up somethin' lively over there, Gurd. Give us 'The Wracker's Darter, by clam!"
Gurd often sent customers to Mrs. Northover, since tea parties were not a branch of business he cared about, she returned his good service with gifts from the herbaceous border and free permission to use her spacious inn yard and stables.
Neddy Motyer rolled a cigarette. "Ray ain't going," said the customer. "Not going to his father's funeral!" "For a very good reason, too; he's cut off with a shilling." "Dear, dear," said Mr. Gurd. "That's bad news, though perhaps not much of a surprise to Mr. Raymond." "It's a devil of a lesson to the rising generation," declared the youth.
Legg supported her and held that such a self-respecting woman could have done and said no less. He declared that Richard Gurd had brought the misfortune on himself, and feared that the innkeeper's display revealed a poor understanding of female nature.
"Why didn't ye let her alone in peace?" blurted out Fluke. "She was keepin' company contented enough along o' Gurd', ef you'd only left her alone. What'd ye come back a-makin' love to her for?" "We always kept company together; since we were that high! Belle Birds'll was Gurdon's company. Vesty was my company." His voice trembled. This was simple Basin parlance and unanswerable. "Ye mean it?"
Gurd; but he shook his head when the young men had gone. Others in the bar hummed on the subject of young Ironsyde after his back was turned. A few stood up for him and held that he had been too severely dealt with; but the majority and those who knew most about him thought that his ill-fortune was deserved. "For look at it," said a tradesman, who knew the facts.
Vesty 's gone and got married to Gurd!" said the children, big and joyful with news, on their way to school. Yes, that was what she had done! I leaned heavily for a moment where I stood. That was Vesty! Oh, child-madness! Sweet, lost child! Oh, pity of the world! and I crawling on with such a hurt; I did not think that should have wrung me so.
Again passing among crowds of restless, hurrying life, faces cold and strange, or often staring curiously, the haunted look of one lost came again into her eyes. "I must go and take care of Gurd," she said, "as well as I can, while I live. O God! I hope he never may get lost, out in the world." "No; how could he, in God's world?"
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