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M'Gregor," he said. "I found it unpleasantly warm walking." "May is a fearsome treacherous month, Mr. Keppel," replied the old housekeeper, who from long association with the struggling practitioner had come to regard him as a son. "An' a wheen o' dry logs is worth a barrel o' pheesic.
"You'll do nothing of the sort!" interrupted the other, and not very politely, either. "I'll carry him myself. Why, I caught him as much as you did!" "Well, maybe you did, but I saw him first." "I don't care! It was my idea. I first thought of this way of catching him!" And then those two alligators disputed, and talked very unpleasantly, indeed, to one another.
But it had its disadvantages, for the snow became unpleasantly soft, and it was a relief to find that the breeze had stripped the much thinner covering from the first of the swelling rises that rolled back toward the north. Here I halted a few minutes and surveyed my adopted country.
The difference between the air of a quiet resolution that marked the conduct of the people and troops at Sluys and the excitement manifested here struck Lionel unpleasantly. The citizens all remained in their houses, afraid lest the exultation they felt at the prospect of deliverance would be so marked as to enrage the soldiery.
As I rode out of the village I noticed that men regarded me with glances that bespoke an unusual interest. "My affair with the overseer is already known," thought I. "No doubt the negroes have spread the report of it. Such matters soon become public." I was unpleasantly impressed with an idea that the expression on people's faces was anything but a friendly one.
This was why Valmond interested her not as a man, a physical personality, but as a mystery to be probed, discovered. Sentiment? Coquetry? Not with him. That for less interesting men, she said to herself. Why should a point or two of dress and manners affect her unpleasantly? She ought to be just, to remember that there was a touch of the fantastic, of the barbaric, in all genius. Was he a genius?
Sometimes she said things that jarred unpleasantly on my nerves, and left an undefined sense of danger. Such as: 'I know she's true to you, and a good creature; but is she shrewd enough? Or, with an anxious look: 'I hope Mary Quince is not easily frightened. Or, suddenly: 'Can Mary Quince write, in case you were ill? Or, 'Can she take a message exactly? Or,
I sat still in my chair, as one stunned and faint; I gazed out, more dead than alive, on the unfamiliar scene that unrolled itself in exquisite panorama before me. Quebec and the Laurentian hills were to me half unreal: the inner senses alone were awake and conscious. Presently a gentle voice at my side broke, not at all unpleasantly, the current of my reflections.
Those eyes I had not seen in the dream. A strange face was the baron's! Faded, fatigued, and, at the same time, young-looking unpleasantly young-looking! My 'dream-father' had not the deep scar either which ran slanting right across my new acquaintance's forehead, and which I had not noticed till I came closer to him.
What was likely to be the profit of such a kind of life, even should it continue for a length of time? a supposition not very probable, for I was earning nothing to support me, and the funds with which I had entered upon this life were gradually disappearing. I was living, it is true, not unpleasantly, enjoying the healthy air of heaven; but, upon the whole, was I not sadly misspending my time?