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Then the one addressed as Susan laughed out a happy, chuckling laugh. 'Oh, I see! My dear Ellen, how clever people are now! They're camouflaged that's what it is can't you see? all the way down, because of the raids! The admiring fervour of the voice was too much for Chicksands. He hurried past them, head down, and ran up the steps of the Ministry of Munitions.
Just as death was claiming it, the young mind had broadened and deepened had become the mind of a man. And in the vigil which he kept during part of that night with Martin, the able young surgeon who had brought Desmond home, and was spending his own hard-earned leave in easing the boy's death, Chicksands found that Martin's impression was the same as his own.
You laid hands on what has proved to be your job, and Chicksands, I expect, has been telling you how marvellously you're doing it, and begging you not to let this duffer' the Squire pointed to his leather waistcoat 'get hold of it again. Hasn't he? He smiled triumphantly, as Elizabeth's sudden flush showed that his shaft had hit. But he would not let her speak. 'No please don't interrupt me!
That was due to his silly dignity! She supposed that somebody would be herself. How absurd! She, who had just been six weeks on the scene! But neither of the married daughters had the smallest influence with him; Sir Henry Chicksands had been sent about his business; Major Mannering was out of favour, and Desmond and Pamela were but babes.
But difficulties, as great as ever expanded a novel to the fifth volume, opposed their wishes. When the courtship commenced, the father of the hero was sitting in the Long Parliament; the father of the heroine was commanding in Guernsey for King Charles. Even when the war ended, and Sir Peter Osborne returned to his seat at Chicksands, the prospects of the lovers were scarcely less gloomy.
The rascally fellows want all sorts of conditions. You may accept them if you like I won't. But I told them we'd meet them in the woods to-morrow you, and Dell and I. And Chicksands, who likes poking his nose into everything, is coming too. 'Sir Henry? asked Elizabeth in astonishment.
Oh, of course Chicksands was the popular man, the greatest power in the county, looked up to, and listened to by everybody. The Squire knew very well that he himself was ostracized, even hated; that there had been general chuckling in the neighbourhood over his rough handling by the County Committee, and that it would please a good many people to see all his woods commandeered and 'cut clean.
Dorothy herself was born in 1627; where, it is impossible to say. Sir Peter was presumably at Castle Cornet at that date, but it is doubtful if Lady Osborne ever stayed there, the accommodation within its walls being straitened and primitive even for that day. Dorothy was probably born in England, maybe at Chicksands.
His eyes, intently fixed on the Squire, kept their marvellous brightness no one knew how long. Then gently, as though an unseen hand put out a light, the brilliance died away the lids fell and with a few breaths Desmond's young life was past. It was three weeks after Desmond's death. Pamela was sitting in the 'den' writing a letter to Arthur Chicksands at Versailles.
The Chicksands' household believed it for twenty-four hours. Then he was discovered gassed and stunned in a shell-hole, and there had been a long illness and convalescence. During the twenty-four hours when he was believed to be dead, Pamela had spent the April daylight in the depths of the Mannering woods, in tangled hiding-places that only she knew. It was in the Easter holidays.
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