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His one consolation was that Binko, now seven years old, had not transferred his affection to Alexander Armstrong, with whom he had spent the time; but after an hour or two had rapturously appeared to remember his master, and now never, if he could help it, left his side.
A sobbing wind and a weeping rain beat round the walls of Arranstoun, and the great gray turrets and towers made a grim picture against the November sky, darkening toward late afternoon, as its master came through the postern gate and across the lawn to his private rooms. He had been tramping the moorland beyond the park without Binko or a gun, his thoughts too tempestuous to bear with even them.
"She remembered you, Binko, old man," he said, caressing the creature's ears. "She is the sweetest little darling in all the world. You would have loved her soft brown hair and her round dimpled cheek.
Then he seized his cap and, calling Binko, he went off into the garden, and so on to the park and to the golf house, where, securing his professional, he played a vigorous round, and when he got back to the castle again, just before dinner, he was informed that Mr. Fordyce had left in his own motor for Edinburgh.
So Michael fell and accepted, not without excusing himself to Binko as he finished writing out his wire: Thousand thanks. I will come. "I am a coward, Binko I ought to have the pluck to go off to Timbuctoo and let Henry have a fair field but I haven't and must be certain first." They were all at tea in the library at Ebbsworth when he arrived, having motored over from Arranstoun after lunch.
And she loves your master, Binko, just as he loves her; she has forgiven him for everything of long ago and if she could, she would come back here, and live with us and make us divinely happy as we believed she was going to do once when we were young."
And if all that failed, he could make some expedition into the wilds again. He was too healthy and well-balanced to have even in this moment of deep suffering any morbid ideas. When he had changed his soaking garments, he came back into his sitting-room and pulled Binko upon his knees. The dog and his fat wrinkles seemed some kind of comfort to him.
"I believe he's right and we are caught, Binko. If we fled to the Rocky Mountains, she would track us. If we stay and face it, she'll make an almighty scandal and force us to marry her. What in the devil's name are we to do !" Binko licked his master's hands, and made noises, so full of gurgling, slobbering sympathy, no heart could have remained uncomforted. Who knows!
Binko Ah! you remember Binko!" for Sabine's face had suddenly lit up and at this passionate joy and emotion flooded Michael's and they both stopped dead short in their talk and Sabine took a quick breath that was almost a gasp.
That under these circumstances she might never have acquired that polish of mind, and strange dignity and reserve of manner which was one of her greatest attractions, did not strike him as it has been plainly said, he was not given to analysis in his judgment of things. "I wish she had had a baby, Binko," he remarked, when once more seated in his chair.
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