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It was while the apparently dead Bansemer was being moved to the improvised hospital that Jane presented herself, distraught with fear, to the young Southerner who had so plainly shown his love for her. She pleaded with him to start at once for Manila with the wounded, supporting her extraordinary request with the opinion that they could not receive proper care from the two young surgeons.
She would never submit as Jane submitted; she would never become, through sheer inertia, a part of the ugliness that enveloped her. Thanks to the vein of iron in her soul she would never no, not if she died fighting become one of the victims of life.
"No indeed, Aunty I hope you've had a pleasant time." "We've had a beautiful time, ain't we, James? We've been on our honeymoon." "Yes'm, we hev been on our honeymoon, travellin' over strange lands an' furrin wastes of waters. Mis' Ball was terrible sea sick comin' here." "In a way," said Aunt Jane, "we ain't completely married.
The close intimacy between Jane and Adeline continued to surprise Elinor. She began to think there must be something more than common, something of the importance of a mystery which drew them so often together, causing so many confidential meetings.
"I amuse you, don't I? Well, I'm not always so all-fired funny," drawled the creature, lowering her head a little. "No. I've heard that you're not. You rather run things here, I gather; got the boys 'plumb-scared'?" "Did Mr. Yarnall tell you that?" "Yes. I've just in the last few minutes remembered who you are. You're Jane.
Not for worlds would she have asked a question about her old playfellow, though she was dying to hear about him. Happily no one saw that sudden blush, or it passed for a reflection of the fire-glow. "Poor Lady Jane!" sighed the incumbent of Beechdale, looking very solemn, "she has gone to a land in which there are fairer flowers than ever grew on the banks of the Amazon." "What do you mean?"
Perhaps if he walked out to the schoolhouse and waited until lunch time? No, it was Saturday morning and there was no school. The obvious thing was to call at the house, but this, the doctor felt, was sure to be unsatisfactory. Not only was there Jane to think of and Aunt Amy but there was also the as-yet-unknown Mrs. Coombe. The visit would almost certainly end in a formal call upon the family.
Jane was not troubled by any aspirations to be an influence for good. She meant to earn her salary fairly, please the trustees, and get her name on the School Inspector's roll of honor. Further ambitions Jane had none. "The main thing will be to keep order and a teacher has to be a little cross to do that. If my pupils won't do as I tell them I shall punish them." "How?"
Miss Jane, however, confessed that she had made a mistake in supposing that his heart was in any way touched with sorrow; but, on the contrary, she feared that he felt nothing but satisfaction at becoming the possessor of Texford, and was annoyed at being reminded of the uncertainty of human life.
'I should like it better without the people, said Theodora. 'Oh, nonsense; one can't babble of green fields and run after cowslips, at our age, unless one is in love, said Georgina. 'If you were going to bring your Percy, perhaps we would not interfere with your sweet rural felicity, my dear. 'We will bring some one else, said Jane. 'After poor Mrs.
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