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He could never have been in earnest before: he loathed and hated himself for his previous passive acquiescence to her fate. He had been a weak tool of the colonel's from the first: he was even now handicapped by a preposterous promise he had given him! Yes, she was right to hesitate to question his ability to make her happy!
"That I can, that I can," cried Marianne, forgetting in her joy that she did not want to take the large present. Tears of joy ran down her cheeks, and from happiness and emotion she could not utter a word of thanks, but kept on pressing the colonel's hand and then Erick's, and all were glad with Marianne that she could move again into the cottage and keep it for always.
It swept from him the sense of loneliness which had oppressed him a short time before, and when at last, after they had talked for a long time beside the fire, the colonel's wife lifted her pretty head drowsily and asked if she might go to bed, he laughed in sheer joy at the pouting tenderness with which she rubbed her pink cheek against the grizzled face above her, and at the gentle light in the colonel's eyes as he half carried her into the tent.
But Sir Robert still stood on his guard, the feeling in his breast being in spite of the terrible provocation he had received that he had done wrong in striking his colonel's guest, and he kept cool and clear-headed, resolved not to attack.
Mamma Gerard would have liked to know how the chicken-jelly was made; the old engraver listened with pleasure to the Colonel's military anecdotes; while little Maria exacted a precise description of the toilettes of the three demoiselles Lantz, and turned up her nose disdainfully at them.
Patsy wiped away the tears that began to well into her eyes. She had so fondly set her heart on reuniting the Dentons that her disappointment was very great. Von Holtz noticed the girl's mood and became thoughtful. Captain Carg had remained glum and solemn ever since they had left the colonel's office.
Already there had been some points on which she had differed with the colonel's wife, and it was plain to all that it was a difficult thing for her to come down from being the authority the leader of the social element of a garrison and from the position of second or third importance which she had been accorded when first assigned to the station.
Th' Colonel's got his tongue pretty well greased just now with his own prime old Bourbon pass me that jar, Rayburn, I don't mind if I have another whack at it myself and we may get something out of him that will be useful. Try it on, Professor, any way. Here's luck, gentlemen."
She was anxious to learn the truth concerning the colonel's past, yet realized that she must move with caution, otherwise he might be thrown into another fever. "Colonel Stanton," she said, seating herself at his side, "were you ever in the neighborhood before I mean some ten or eleven years ago?" At this question Colonel Stanton became immediately interested, and his wide-open eyes showed it.
Never was a man nearer his death. In a whiff, Tarleton was foining at him in front whilst the two aides were rising in their stirrups on either hand to cut him down. 'Twas the little bugler boy who saved his colonel's life, and not the unnamed "sergeant," as the histories have it.
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