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Updated: May 13, 2025
He had left me without a word without even saying good-bye! It struck me as so unkind, his having gone off in that way, that I burst into tears; and Uncle John came out, and led me back into the house. On reaching my room, I discovered that Jones was right. I had not put on my trousers, after all. They were still hanging over the bed-rail.
I clasped one hand mechanically round the bed-rail to support myself, the ground seemed to lift and sway beneath my feet. I looked down on the little oval face that had lived so near to me through the last year. How pale it was now, framed in the crimson mist that stretched across the bed! At the slight, exquisite body so often held in my arms. Was I to lose them now for all time?
He strove to draw her towards him, but she clung to the bed-rail with almost child-like persistence, as though she dared not permit herself the hope his encircling arms inspired. But she had not rebuffed him, so with some assertion he thrust his other arm about her, and, exerting force, deliberately turned her towards him. "Say, don't you to cry, lass," he whispered softly. "Don't you, now.
It was torture for her to have the bed jarred. Jack, baby fashion, raised his head and gave the bed-rail another whack. Elizabeth sat up suddenly and gave the child such a resounding slap that he sat down, shaking the whole house with the impact, his screams quite in keeping with the occasion.
She regarded the pillows for a long time and the sight of them awakened in her mind secret, amiable memories. She rested the nape of her neck against the cool iron bed-rail and fell into a reverie. There was no longer any perturbation visible on her face. She waited on patiently, almost cheerfully, without alarm, her memories gradually giving place to hopes and visions of the future.
This, too, was half-curtained and dim, for it was six o'clock. Winifred threw off her coat that scent again! then stood, as if shot, transfixed against the bed-rail. Something dark had risen from the sofa in the far corner. A word of horror in her family escaped her: "God!" "It's I Monty," said a voice.
Perhaps perhaps I spoilt one of the highest and purest loves that ever existed between man and woman! ... Then let the veil of our temple be rent in two from this hour!" He went to the bed, removed one of the pair of pillows thereon, and flung it to the floor. Sue looked at him, and bending over the bed-rail wept silently.
One side of the house was given up to the work animals, some twelve head, besides hogs. In the next room the family lived, the water coming within two inches of the bed-rail. The stove was below water, and the cooking was done on a fire on top of it. The house threatened to give way at any moment: one end of it was sinking, and, in fact, the building looked a mere shell.
Humpty-Dumpty was up on the bed-rail again for the finale; all the king's horses were clasped to him, making the egg more round, and over they both went with shrieks and gurgles. What a boy he was! She would not no, she would not brood and spoil her day with him. But that afternoon, at the end of a long gallop on the downs, she turned her head away and said suddenly: "Is she a huntress?" "Who?"
Also she remembered as dimly the presence of Dr. van Heerden standing over her, and he was wearing a long grey dust-coat. As her captor kicked open the door of her room she scrambled out of his arms and leant against the bed-rail for support. "I'm all right," she said breathlessly, "it was foolish to faint, but but you frightened me."
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