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Ruperta stood, in peerless beauty, dark blue from throat to feet, and saw his boat astern of his rival, saw it come up with, and creep ahead, amid the roars of the multitude. When she saw her lover, with bare corded arms, as brown as a berry, and set teeth, filling his glorious part in that manly struggle within eight yards of her, she confessed he was not a boy now.
Ridiculous and profane, Sister Cleophée or Sister Ruperta would have said, to liken a handsome, stupid, young lieutenant of Hussars to the immortal Captain of the Armies of Heaven. But she knew another who would understand.
"Yes, Ruperta." "She is beautiful." "Isn't she?" "But mine is so good." "Mine is very good, too, Ruperta. Wonderfully good." "I like you, Compton a little." "I like you a good deal, Ruperta." "La, do you? I wonder at that: you are like a cherub, and I am such a black thing." "But that is why I like you. Reginald is darker than you, and oh, so beautiful!" "Hum! he is a very bad boy."
I mean to wait till I'm nineteen; and that is three years nearly." "It is a fearful time; but if you will promise not to marry anybody else, I suppose I shall live through it." She told her mother directly. Mrs. Bassett sighed, and said that was too blessed a thing ever to happen. "Why not?" said Ruperta. "How could it," said Mrs. Bassett, "with everybody against it but poor little me!"
"I don't like you now, Ruperta," said Compton, with all the decent calmness of a settled conviction. "You don't!" screamed Ruperta. "Then go about your business directly, and don't never come here again! Scolding me!
"I have. It won't be opened." "Let me try. Some gates want to be lifted up a little, and then they will open. There, I told you so." The gate came open. Ruperta uttered an exclamation of delight, and then drew back. "I'm afraid, Compton," said she, "papa would be angry." She wanted Compton to tempt her; but that young gentleman, having a strong sense of filial duty, omitted so to do.
Here shone, in all their glory, the old plate of two good families: that is to say, half the old plate of the Bassetts, and all the old plate of the Goodwyns, from whom came Highmore to Richard Bassett through his mother Ruperta Goodwyn, so named after her grandmother; so named after her aunt; so named after her godmother; so named after her father, Prince Rupert, cavalier, chemist, glass-blower, etc., etc.
"And blessed be our Lord, excepting for the damage to the roof, no more seems to have been done. I can see the spider stopping near the Women's Laager." She peered out earnestly over the shimmering waste of dusty yellow-brown, and cried out joyfully: "Ah, Sister Hilda Antony and Sister Ruperta are getting out. All is well with them; all is well." "But not with the washing."
"Well, then, this is what puzzles me; your papa and mine don't believe in 'Dogs delight. They have been quarreling this twelve years and more, and mean to go on, in spite of mamma. She is good. Didn't you know that your papa and mine are great enemies?" "No, Ruperta. Oh, what a pity!" "Don't, Compton, don't: there, you have made me cry." He set himself to console her.
"You must let me marry you." Ruperta stared, and began to blush crimson. "Will you, cousin?" "Of course not, child. The idea!" "Oh, Ruperta," cried the boy in dismay, "surely you don't mean to marry anybody else but me!" "Would that make you very unhappy, then?" "You know it would, wretched for my life." "I should not like to do that. But I disapprove of early marriages.
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