Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 11, 2025
Marie, as briefly as he could, told him the truth of the whole affair from the beginning, as he had told it to Coira O'Hara.
"Coira," cried the man, "do you mean that you carried me bodily all that long distance? You?" "Carried or dragged," she said. "As much one as the other. It was not very difficult. I'm strong for a woman." "Oh, child! child!" he cried. And he said: "I remember more. It was you who held Stewart and kept him from shooting me. I heard the shot and I heard you scream.
Marie went to the stairs leaning upon the shoulder of the stout old Justine, but before he had gone Coira checked him for an instant. She said: "Tell Arthur, if he speaks to you about me, that what I said in the note I gave him last night I meant quite seriously. I gave him a note to read after he reached home. Tell him for me that it was final. Will you do that?" "Yes, of course," said Ste.
"If his love for me is worth anything," she said, "he will come back but openly this time, not in hiding. Then I shall know that he is what I would have him be. Otherwise " Ste. Marie looked away. "But you must remember, Coira," said he, "that the lad is very young and that his family they may try it may be hard for him.
And so he was the more startled when quite suddenly there appeared from behind a row of tall shrubs two young people moving slowly together up the untrimmed turf in the direction of the house. The two young people were Mlle. Coira O'Hara and Arthur Benham, and upon the brow of this latter youth there was no sign of dungeon pallor, upon his free-moving limbs no ball and chain.
The old Justine knocked at the door to ask if Monsieur was going into the city soon or if she should give the chauffeur his déjeuner and tell him to wait. "Are you fit to go?" Coira asked. And he said, "I suppose as fit as I shall be." He got to his feet, and the things about him swam dangerously, but he could walk by using great care. The girl stood white and still, and she avoided his eyes.
Sometimes Michel brought in the meals, sometimes his wife, a creature so like him that the two might well have passed for twin survivors of some unknown race; sometimes thrice altogether in that first week Coira O'Hara brought the tray, and she was as silent as the others. So Ste.
They threw away baggage and ammunition that they might travel the lighter. Thus they fled towards Spain, harassed by the British cavalry and scarcely less by the resentful peasantry of Portugal, their line of march defined by an unbroken trail of carcasses, until the tattered remnants of that once splendid army found shelter across the Coira.
So the two remained there for a little while longer in silence, but at last Coira O'Hara said: "I must go back to the house now. There is nothing more to be done, I suppose nothing left now but to wait for night to come. I shall see Arthur this afternoon and make one last appeal to him. If that fails you must carry him off. Do you know where he sleeps?
Marie opened his eyes, and in the soft half-light the girl's face was bent above him, dark and sweet and beautiful near, so near that her breath was warm upon his lips. He said her name again in an incredulous whisper: "Coira! Coira!" And she said, "I am here." But the man was in a strange border-land of half-consciousness and his ears were deaf. He said, gazing up at her: "Is it another dream?"
Word Of The Day
Others Looking