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Thus it must be my part to delay our homecoming; and albeit the leech's tidings made me heavy at heart I was fain to yield, inasmuch as that Herdegen might not appear in the presence of his sweetheart in his present guise.
"Thou art too bold, sweetheart," said the Lady Ermengarde, looking at the Flemish maiden from under her dark brows; "and yet there is wit in thy words. Saxon, Dane, and Norman, have rolled like successive billows over the land, each having strength to subdue what they lacked wisdom to keep. When shall it be otherwise?"
Indeed, to have done so would have been unnatural, for apart altogether from the hardship and anxiety that these men had already so callously inflicted upon me, and the woman who was infinitely dearer than life to me I could not forget that they had all planned and agreed together in cold blood to deliberately destroy my sweetheart and myself, not one of them, except Harry so far as my information went possessing even the small modicum of humanity that would have prompted him to demur at the decision, and to urge the adoption of a less fatally stringent course.
Some days I almost make up my mind to do it and then I see myself thrusting a bayonet through another man some woman's husband or sweetheart or son perhaps the father of little children I see myself lying alone torn and mangled, burning with thirst on a cold, wet field, surrounded by dead and dying men and I know I never can. I can't face even the thought of it. How could I face the reality?
I did not care what they thought for my soldier had come home from the wars." "Sweetheart," the deep voice faltering, "may may I kiss you?" "Of course you may." Their lips met, and she clung to him, as his arms held her closely. It was like a dream to him, this sudden, unexpected surrender. Perhaps she read this in his eyes. "Do not misunderstand," she urged softly.
Since when is it that a grown-up son has to apologize to his mother if he takes a step without her?" "You can believe me, ma, but I've got so it don't seem like theater or nothing seems like going out without my little sweetheart mamma on one arm and Clara on the other." "It's not right, Sammy, you should spoil me so.
"What word?" "'Regiment." He reached across to pat the vein-corduroyed back of her hand. "My little sweetheart mamma," he said. She, in turn, put out her hand over his, her old sagging throat visibly constricting in a gulp, and her eyes as if they could never be finished with yearning over him. "You're a good boy, Sammy." "Sure!"
"I reckon we had a bit too much o' that there hospital," responded the Corporal, drawing forward a chair for his friend. "'Twas there we did have so much talk about my sweetheart. Ha, ha, ye didn't know as I'd a-got a sweetheart, did ye, old lady?" he inquired of his mother. "Billy 'ull tell 'ee about that," and he winked surreptitiously at his friend. Mrs. Baverstock was evidently in a flutter.
If, instead, you would be a sailor's sweetheart for an hour, and take me to this show of yours your princess's benefit, or whatever it is I shall be obliged; my previous guide is hull down over the horizon, and I am clean out of my reckoning in this crowd."
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