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"Dear madam, pardon me; but how many of these accidents to Socrates are you ascribing to his classical education?" "But it comes out in so many ways," Miss Plinlimmon persisted; "and it does make such a difference! There's a je ne sais quoi. You can tell it even in the way they handle a knife and fork!"
"Duty it is," said I. "You walked up to yours nobly, and I must walk on to mine." So we shook hands, and I turned my face westward for the ferry. I had over-calculated my strength, and limped sorely the last mile or two before reaching Minden Cottage. Miss Plinlimmon opened the door to me, and I forgot my pain for an instant and ran into her arms. But behind her lay an empty house.
"Did young Plinlimmon know of the fraud?" "No." "Does he know now?" "No." "Thank the Lord for that small mercy! For, by the Lord, I'd have shot him without grace to say his prayers." "Mr. Rogers!" Again the Rector lifted a reproving hand. "You don't understand, sir. For this marriage which isn't a marriage Isabel Brooks gave the door to an honest man.
On May-day, then, I entered Mr. Tucker's Bun Shop with a beating heart, a scrubbed face and a sprig of southernwood in my button-hole, and Miss Plinlimmon fell on my neck and kissed me. All the formality of the Genevan Hospital dropped away from her as a garment, and left only the tender formality of her own nature, so human that it amazed me. I had never really known her until now.
"They belong to Archibald's regiment," said Miss Plinlimmon as we settled ourselves to talk. I had noted that she scanned them narrowly. "Why, here is Archibald!" she exclaimed: and I looked up and saw a young red-coat sauntering towards us. Her tone, I was jealously glad to observe, had not been entirely joyous. And Master Archibald, as he drew near, did not seem in the best of tempers.
"Be careful!" "But this makes twice in ten days. It's pushing a man too hard altogether!" "Not a bit of it," Letcher assured him cheerfully. "You're too devilish fond of your own neck, my lad; and I know it too devilish well to be come over by that talk." He chuckled to himself. "How's the beauty down at the cottage?" "I don't know," Mr. Whitmore answered sulkily. "Is Plinlimmon there?"
"Did I say 'we'?" "You talked about your reverses 'our reverses, you said. I wish you would tell me about it: I never heard, before, of anyone belonging to you." "'We' means 'my brother and I," she said, and said no more until she had paid the bill and we walked up to the Hoe together. "My brother Arthur Captain Arthur Plinlimmon of the King's Own is the soul of honour.
Three hundredweight, they say, and in pure gems! He is to choose his share, by-and-by; and then we have to contrive how to take it down to the ship." "Miss Plinlimmon," said the Captain, coming towards us, "you promised me a word yesterday. I should wish to claim it now that is, if Harry can spare you." I observed that his voice shook a little, but this I set down to excitement.
Towards middle-age they both married I was told, by his orders and near about at the same time. At any rate each married and each had a child Archibald a daughter and Randall a son. Archibald's daughter he died two years after her birth was brought up by her uncle, Sir Charles, who made a pet of her; but she spoilt her prospects by marrying a poor soldier, Captain Plinlimmon.
Plinlimmon means to tell his wife, for which I commend him. Now you don't propose to make out a warrant against him, I take it? As for the boy, he's done us more services to-night than we can count on our fingers. He's saved more than one, and more than two, of us here, let alone five couples married by Whitmore in the four months he was curate. Reckon them in, please, and their children to come.
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