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Updated: May 29, 2025
"Because his voice is wearied out," says the dragoon. And with that he faced about, and walked to the gate slowly. "Bedman, come wi' me an' see the rest," he says, over his shoulder. He opened the gate, unhitched the bridle and swung himself heavily up in the saddle. Now from the gate the bank goes down pretty steep into the road, and at the foot of the bank my father saw two figures waiting.
Hire thee a bedman, more like. Nay, then, lad " But I saw her no longer: only called "oh-oh!" twice, like a little child, and slipping my hold of the saddle, dropp'd forward on her breast. Waking, I found myself in darkness not like that of night, but of a room where the lights have gone out: and felt that I was dying. But this hardly seem'd a thing to be minded.
She is dressed in black, an' has a veil over her face; an' she's comin' this way." "Bedman," answers the dragoon, "go to the gate an' look back along the Plymouth road, an' tell me what you see." "I see," says my father, coming back with his teeth chattering, "I see, twenty yards back, a naked child comin'. He looks to be callin', but he makes no sound."
His face was still a slaty-grey, and clammy with sweat; and when he spoke, his voice was all of a whisper, with a shiver therein. "Bedman," says he, "go to the hedge and look down the road, and tell me what you see." My father went, with his knees shaking, and came back again. "I see a woman," says he, "not fifty yards down the road.
She ended this wandering talk with her usual shrewd bits of advice, asking me, as she stopped short in her walk, "Have you a little sense left?" "I hope so." "Then get your head to help that idiot your heart. Leave Darthea to herself. Bide with Miss Chew or Miss Bedman. Women are like children. Let them alone, and by and by they will sidle up to you for notice."
I set them down as they were told me, across the blue glow of a wreck-wood fire, by Sam Tregear, the parish bedman. Sam himself had borne an inconspicuous share in them; and because of them Sam's father had carried a white face to his grave. That accounts, maybe, for my being born rickety and with other drawbacks that only made father the fonder.
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