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His sister was still laid up; she thought she must have taken cold in her jaw; her husband, rumpled, unshaven, with a shawl over his shoulders, cowered about the cook-stove for the heat.
Ye are a clumsy churl and it shall rue you sore, I'll have you to know fall well," spake the comely maid. In her arms she grasped the peerless knight; she weened to bind him, as she had done the king, that she might have her case upon the bed. The lady avenged full sore, that he had rumpled thus her clothes. What availed his mickle force and his giant strength?
He had married for money, and he had got what he bargained for; love, confidence, and mutual esteem were not sought in the contract and these do not necessarily come of themselves. "Well, the best I can do is to give her what money she wants and be done with it." "Is not in her room?" "No sir and her bed has not been rumpled." "Where in the world can she be?"
Oh, my reader! may you never behold such a sight as that which presented itself: eighty-three men and women in ball-dresses; the former with their lank powdered locks streaming over their faces; the latter with faded flowers, uncurled wigs, smudged rouge, blear eyes, draggling feathers, rumpled satins each more desperately melancholy and hideous than the other each, except my beloved Belinda Bulcher, whose raven ringlets never having been in curl, could of course never go OUT of curl; whose cheek, pale as the lily, could, as it may naturally be supposed, grow no paler; whose neck and beauteous arms, dazzling as alabaster, needed no pearl-powder, and therefore, as I need not state, did not suffer because the pearl-powder had come off.
The procession of three went together into the bedroom, where the long-suffering baby had begun at last to protest. The rumpled beds were as she and Osborn had left them, and the room looked soiled. She inspected it for a moment before she turned to the business of bathing and dressing the baby. Osborn's late breakfast had made her late with the housework, but it didn't matter.
He straightened his back and smiled. He took from the table a rumpled paper and turned to the littlest factor in the great Rebellion. "Here, Virgie! Here's your pass to Richmond for you and your escort through the Federal lines." She came to him slowly, wondering; her tiny body quivering with suppressed excitement, her voice a whispering caress: "Do you mean for for Daddy, too?"
"You ain't a bad sort," he said, "but you need puttin' in place continual." Black Bart whined agreement. After that, when the dishes were being cleared away and cleaned with a speed fully as marvelous as the preparation of the supper, Joan remembered with a guilty start the message which she should have given to Daddy Dan, and she brought out the paper, much rumpled.
The ladies obeyed. In due course Love in Babylon was excavated, chapter by chapter, and Aunt Annie held it safely once more, rumpled but complete. By the luckiest chance an empty four-wheeler approached. The sisters got into it, and Aunt Annie gave the address. 'As quick as you can, she said to the driver, 'but do drive slowly.
Joe was nowhere to be seen, and as the two culprits walked away, trying to go steadily, while their heads spun round, and all the strength seemed to have departed from their legs, Frank said, in an exhausted tone, "Come down to the boat-house and rest a minute." Both were glad to get out of sight, and dropped upon the steps red, rumpled, and breathless, after the late exciting scene.
I gave him a little brandy and left him collapsed in a chair, while I made a most careful examination of the room. I soon saw that the intruder had left other traces of his presence besides the rumpled papers. On the table in the window were several shreds from a pencil which had been sharpened. A broken tip of lead was lying there also.
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