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The Major was reserved and embarrassed; there was a tenderness about Carlota's manner that frightened him out of his usual gallantry, and, to avoid meeting her glance, he looked steadily out of the window at the rock of Gibraltar, casting wistful glances at the spot where his quarters lay hidden in a little clump of foliage.
Carlota's kept easily beside him under her lighter weight, and they rapidly neared the barrier. Just as they passed it, a stream of flame shot from the rock, illumining objects like a flash of lightning; then came the heavy report of the gun another minute and the drawbridge at Landport would be lifted; but they were upon it.
'twas civility, I suppose, to squeeze her hand in the inn at Algeçiras, in the way she told Juana of and heaven knows what else you may have done during the flight. Juana is outrageous against you actually called you a vile deceiver; but Carlota's feeling is more of sorrow than of anger.
At Carlota's orders, a couple of horses, one with a side-saddle, were speedily at the inn-door; they mounted, and, before the sun was yet risen, had issued forth from the gate of Tarifa, on the road to Gibraltar. The Major rode beside her like a man in a dream in fact, he was partly asleep, having been deprived of a large portion of his natural and accustomed rest, and partly bewildered.
If anything could have added to the Major's discomfiture and embarrassment, it would have been the pressure of Carlota's arm on his, as she hung confidingly on him a pressure not proceeding from her weight only, but active, and with a meaning in it; but he was in that state of mental numbness from the successive shocks of astonishment, that, as with a soldier after the first two dozen, any additional laceration passed unheeded.
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