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Updated: May 14, 2025
He was kneeling in front of her, the chuddah pushed back from his face, humbly offering her an oatmeal biscuit with a small heap of rice piled upon it. She drew back shuddering. "I couldn't eat anything possibly," she said, and even her voice seemed to shrink. "You can. You take it. I would rather die." Nick did not withdraw his hand. "Take it, Muriel," he said quietly.
She would do as that voice said, rest for a few minutes. There was a white chuddah shawl folded on the end of the sofa. Fay had liked it spread over her knees, for she was nearly always chilly. Peter opened it and laid it very lightly over Jan, who never stirred.
The owner thereof straightened himself up with a contemptuous gesture till he reached the height of a tall man. The enveloping chuddah slipped back from his head. "I am not the fool," he said briefly. Stella's cry rang through the verandah, and it was Peter who, utterly forgetful of his own adversity, leapt up like a faithful hound to protect her in her hour of need.
Now he could afford to buy another horse and keep a tum-tum; with a heavier purse he was able to send home some well-chosen and handsome presents a China crêpe shawl for Mrs. Malone, ivory carvings to the Tebbs, an Indian chuddah to his aunt and a heavy gold bangle for each of the girls.
"The written word is not always effectual," the other man said. He put up a hand abruptly and stripped the ragged hair from his face, pushing back the heavy folds of the chuddah that enveloped his head as he did so. His features gleamed in the moonlight, lean and brown, unmistakably British. "Monck!" said Dacre, in the tone of one verifying a suspicion. "Yes Monck."
She looked out as she drove through the gates for the old native beggar who had crouched at the entrance on the previous afternoon. He was not there, but a little way further she met him hobbling along to take up his post for the day. From the folds of his chuddah his unkempt beard wagged entreaty at the carriage as it passed.
He turned very slowly. "Yes, one thing," he said, paused an instant as she sprang to her feet with a great cry, then straightened himself, pushed the chuddah back from his face, and flung out his arms to her passionately. "Audrey!" he said "Audrey!" By slow degrees Audrey learnt the story of her husband's escape.
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