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I have her dear letter yellow and time-stained now written a week before the appointed wedding-day which never dawned for her, my boy. She died two days before, full of faith in my honour." Aleck's hands were both resting now upon his uncle's arm, and his eyes looked dim and misty. "There, my boy, I said I could not explain to you, and I have uncovered the old wound, laying it quite bare.
"I scarcely know what to think," said Rochebriant; "I feel as if you had given me so rough a shake when I was in the midst of a dull dream, that I am not yet quite sure whether I am asleep or awake." Just as he said this, and towards the Paris end of the Champs Elysees, there was a halt, a sensation among the loungers round them; many of them uncovered in salute.
He continued in full charge of the relief work, although his arm had been badly cut. Parts of Main Street were impassable because of debris. At several points it comprised outbuildings that had struck more stable buildings and been dashed to pieces. Hourly apprehension for the appalling sights to be uncovered when the waters return to normal was growing.
They struggled up and out: and all uncovered. Twenty. Pause. If we were all suddenly somebody else. Far away a donkey brayed. Rain. No such ass. Never see a dead one, they say. Shame of death. They hide. Also poor papa went away. Gentle sweet air blew round the bared heads in a whisper. Whisper. The boy by the gravehead held his wreath with both hands staring quietly in the black open space.
The Swiss guard stood to their halberds. A Frenchman and his lady, the same, if I mistake not, whom I had seen on the Scala Santa, spreading his white handkerchief on the causeway, uncovered and dropped on his knees; a row of German students in red gowns went down in like manner; a score or so of wretched-looking old men, who were digging up the grass in the piazza, formed a prostrate group in the middle; and a little knot of Englishmen, some four of us only, stood erect at about six yards from the line of the procession.
I gathered up the scattered weapons and piled them all in one corner, farthest from the door, where I now proposed to set about getting free. With the fearful blight of uncovered treason in his soul, Broussard obeyed me cringingly as a servant, and worked as hard, for his safety lay in mine.
How could it have been like this? she asked herself. How could she have loved deeply when, at the time, her own nature lacked depth? Experience had broadened her, and suffering had uncovered depths in her being which nothing else had had the power to uncover. Stooping, she kissed Dave softly, then let her cheek rest against his. Her man! Her man! She found herself whispering the words.
And what had been the meaning of that "financial help"? Had, for instance for it was pitifully obvious that if the bank had been looted an innocent man would not commit suicide on that account a greater measure of the depredation been uncovered than had been counted on, so much indeed that, say, the financial assistance Forrester had intended to ask for had now increased to such proportions that he had realised the futility of even a request; or, again, had it for some reason, since he had telephoned, now become impossible to restore the funds even if they were in his possession?
Jorrocks, casting his eye up the table, as soon as they had all got squeezed and wedged round it, and the dishes were uncovered, "you see your dinner, eat whatever you like except the windmill hope you'll be able to satisfy nature with what's on would have had more but Mrs. J is so werry fine, she won't stand two joints of the same sort on the table." Mrs. J. Lauk, John, how can you be so wulgar!
Just at this juncture a messenger came from Hovey, asking for more reinforcements. There were none to spare. I then gave an order to move McPherson's command by the left flank around to Hovey. This uncovered the rebel line of retreat, which was soon taken advantage of by the enemy.
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