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Not Polly the maid, I'll take my Davey; I have so often left money and things about, and never lost a halfpenny." That same Sunday Saurin and Edwards were standing with two or three others in the quadrangle, when Gould limped by. "How is your ankle getting on, Gould?" one of the group called out. "Better, thanks," he replied, joining them.
So I passed into the quadrangle, and found it quite solitary, except that a plain and neat old woman happened to be crossing it, with an aspect of business and carefulness that bespoke her a woman of this world, and not merely a shadow of the past.
The next minute Frank was crossing the quadrangle on his way back, feeling relieved of much of his burden; but before he reached the quarters occupied by the royal pages, Andrew Forbes stood before him. "At last!" he said. "I've been waiting here ever since. How does she take it?" "Bravely," said Frank, with a proud look. "She has just gone in to tell the Princess."
She did not come, and he awaited her in the afternoon, which was finer. He knew that if she came at all she would approach the building along the eastern side of the great green quadrangle from which it was accessible, and he stood in a corner while the bell was going.
"This will require a little thinking," as one English officer said, "but of course we shall take it." The purchase on Mametz and the occupation of Bailiff's Wood, the Quadrangle, La Boisselle and Ovillers-la-Boisselle brought the circle of advancing British nearer to Contalmaison, which sat up on the hills in a sea of chalk seams. Contalmaison was being gradually "softened" by the artillery.
There was no thought of Roger's leaving the retreat he had found in his hour of need. He scarce dared put foot outside the quiet cloistered quadrangle behind whose gates and walls he alone felt safe. Besides, his father lay slowly dying in the hospital hard by.
The fugitive in hiding was doubtless at ease, unsuspecting, while the noiseless search of the officers for his quarters was under way. With a thrill of excitement Keenan crept stealthily through an open passage and into the old grass-grown spaces of the quadrangle. Night possessed the place, but the cloud seemed denser than the darkness.
Altogether they are two hundred and twenty-eight feet long, front and rear, and one hundred and eighty feet deep, occupying not only the four sides of a quadrangle, but the greater part of what originally was, in all probability, an open court.
All he knew was that he would have given anything in the world to recall the past; to undo the events of that June evening in the Marmion quadrangle. Then, before Otto could discover his presence, he went noiselessly round the corner of the house, and entered it by the front door. In the hall, he called loudly to the ex-scout, as he went upstairs, so that Radowitz might know he had come back.
One morning, nearly a month after the half-term holiday, the three friends were strolling arm in arm through the archway leading from the quadrangle to the paved playground, when they came face to face with their old enemy.
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