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After the first few weeks that followed that night the village saw less and less of the man who went on living alone in the small white cottage with only the child to keep him company the girl-child whom he had named Dryad, perhaps in a blind, groping hunger for beauty, perhaps in sheer revolt against the myriad Janes and Anns and Marthas about him.
'I wouldn't have my name on a bill in such a man's hands on any account, said Alaric. 'Well, I don't like it myself, said Undy; 'but what the deuce am I to do? I might as well go to Tillietudlem without my head as without money. 'I thought you'd kept a lot of the Mary Janes, said Alaric. 'So I had, but they're gone now. I tell you I've managed L1,000 myself.
But these young ladies of the new style must be Ediths and Eleanors and Ophelias, and all that heathenish kind of thing, as if they were princesses of the blood or play-actresses, instead of being good Christian Susans and Janes and Betties, like their grandmothers were before them. And Miss Edith, now, what is SHE doing?
Up on the top deck, to which Jimmie was not invited, were officers, also a number of women and girls belonging to the hospital and ambulance units. "Janes" was the term by which the soldier-boys described these latter; you could see they were a good sort of "Janes", serious and keen for their job, looking business-like and impressive in their uniforms with many pockets.
Janes had done as much to banish it in a single fortnight as Ralston and the bibulous explorer and the nine months of diligent labour all put together. It happened that the Baroness herself planned a little pleasure trip, which resulted in the closing of this chapter of Paul Armstrong's life.
In three days he was aboard ship at Havre, and the disconsolate Janes was one of his fellow-voyagers. If a philosopher were set to describe the best and the worst of life, he would certainly have a considerable choice before him. But amongst the best he would have to set down love, and amongst the worst he would have to set down love's disillusion. The curse of age is indifference.
"I has my low fits and my high fits same as t'other folks, and this is a low fit day that's all, miss." "Oh! I am so sorry. Poor Poppy! And is the swimming in your head as bad as ever?" "It's continual, Miss Jasmine. It seems to have become a kind of habit, same as the smuts and the Sarah Janes. A swimming head is most certain the London style of head for a girl like me.
"Walk right in. Here, Marthy, the widder Janes has called to see you this morning." A quiet, middle-aged woman turned round from the table, where she was fitting patches to a pair of pauper trousers. Her face was sweet, her voice low, and, though she was of middle age, every one agreed that "Miss Coffin was a real pooty woman, an' a harnsome woman too." "How does thee do, Keziah Janes?
A strange contrast formed the old farmer, so gruff and bluff-looking with his stout square figure, his weather-beaten face, short grey hair, and dark bushy eyebrows to the slight and graceful child, her aristocratic beauty set off by exactly the same style of paraphernalia that had adorned the young Lady Janes and Lady Marys, Mrs.
'I hardly know her, said Violet, hesitating. 'This is only the second time I have seen her; and last year I was so unwell that her liveliness was too much for me. 'Overpowering, said Theodora. 'So people say. It is time she should steady; but she will not think. I'm provoked with her. I did not like her looks to-day, and yet she has a good warm heart. She is worth a dozen Janes!
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