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What could I do? I know what I did do. Insensibly I began to keep better hours. On wet and stormy nights, in the thick of the folly and the fun, the thought would persist in coming to me of Otoo keeping his dreary vigil under the dripping mangoes. Truly, he made a better man of me. Yet he was not strait-laced. And he knew nothing of common Christian morality.
Smooth grass surrounded the place, and tall pine trees towered in the background; and round the pillars of the broad verandah, which extended to the full length of the house front, clematis and honeysuckle twined in thick clusters, filling the air with delicate perfume.
He stopped, and his breath heaved thick; he thought of their common home at Grassdale of the old Manor-house of the little parlour with the woodbine at its casement of the group within, once so happy and light-hearted, of which he had formerly made the one most buoyant, and not least-loved. In a few minutes the door at the right of the building opened, and Ellinor came forth with a quick step.
His restless eye roamed anxiously round the wretched hut, while his breath came short and thick from between his pale lips. "Shall I read to ye, darlin'?" said the woman, bending over the couch to catch the faint whisper, which was all the poor man had strength to utter.
But after half an hour, as we did not come on, they began to come back. We were too weak and only one Battalion was left of our reserves otherwise the day was ours. Street, the G.S.O.I. of the Division, was in the thick of the battle too far in for his rank, I am told, and he is most emphatic that with one more Brigade Achi Baba would now be in our hands.
"Come along." The two men hurried down the staircase and out of the house. When they reached the patch of grass which the inspector said had been "made up," they crouched down and scrutinised it closely. Just by the side of the grass, even overhanging it a little, a large rhubarb plant outspread its thick, dentelated leaves almost parallel with the soil.
Already penitent for his angry action, but too stubborn to make amends, Mason toiled on at the head of the cavalcade, little dreaming that danger hovered in the air. The timber clustered thick in the sheltered bottom, and through this they threaded their way. Fifty feet or more from the trail towered a lofty pine.
'Nathan said unto David, Thou art the man. It needed a prophet to do that, with divine authority. Nothing less would suffice to get through the thick bosses of the buckler of self-conceit and ignorance which he had to penetrate.
After four or five hours' work, he found that he had gathered enough. He had filled his pan no less than six times, and had secured a supply which was amply sufficient to give a coating of thick gum over all the fractured place.
With the beginning of dusk he closed the cabin door that he might have an excuse for lighting the big hanging lamp a little earlier. He had imagined how its warm glow would flood down upon the thick soft coils of her shining hair. Every fibre in him throbbed with a keen and exquisite satisfaction as he sat down opposite her.
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