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Although she was not one to shrink beneath it like the small bird of the woods, she had to say within herself many times, 'I shall see Captain Dartrey to-morrow, for a recovery and a nerving.
And the yielding of her hand to Dartrey, would have appeared at that period of her revival, as among the baser compliances of the fleshly, if she had not seen in him, whom she owned for leader, her fellow soldier, warrior friend, hero, of her own heart's mould, but a greater.
'Oh, Victor! if money...! But why did you say "poor fellow" of Dartrey Fenellan? 'You know how he's... 'Yes, yes, she said hastily. 'But has that woman been causing fresh anxiety? 'And Natata's chief hero on earth is not to be named a poor fellow, said he, after a negative of the head on a subject they neither of them liked to touch.
"I fancy," Dartrey said soothingly, "that Miller was talking more as a philosopher than a practical man." "I speak according to my experience," the latter insisted, a little doggedly. "Amongst your own constituents?" Tallente asked, with a faint smile, reminiscent of a recent unexpected defeat of one of Miller's partisans in a large constituency.
What were the people? 'Captain Dartrey says, England may hold up her head while she breeds young women like Matilda Pridden: right or wrong, he says: it is the substance. Hereupon Manton, sick of Miss Pridden, shook the little man with a snappish word, to bring him to attention.
The mortal life appeared to be deadened in her cold wide look; as when the storm-wind banks a leaden remoteness, leaving blown space of sky. The colonel said: 'No, that's not the girl a gentleman would offend. 'What man! cried Dartrey. 'If we had a Society for the trial of your gentleman! but he has only to call himself gentleman to get grant of licence: and your Society protects him.
'Captain Dartrey is an athlete, sir: exceedingly quick and clever; a hard boxer to beat. 'You will not call him captain when you see him; he has dismissed the army. 'I much regret it, sir, much, that we have lost him. Captain Dartrey Fenellan was a beautiful fencer. He gave me some instruction; unhappily, I have to acknowledge, too late. It is a beautiful art.
Skepsey temporized, to get his national defences, by pleading the country's love of peace. 'Then you give-up your portion of the gains of war an awful disgorgement, said Dartrey. 'If you are really for peace, you toss all your spare bones to the war-dogs. Otherwise, Quakerly preaching is taken for hypocrisy. 'I 'm afraid we are illogical, sir, said Skepsey, adopting one of the charges of Mr.
'The right sort of girl for you to know, Skepsey, he said. 'The best in life is a good woman. Skepsey exhibited his book of the Gallic howl. 'They have their fits now and then, and they're soon over and forgotten, Dartrey said. 'The worst of it is, that we remember.
Dartrey escaped to the Club, where he had a friend. The friend was Colonel Sudley, one of the modern studious officers, not in good esteem with the authorities. He had not forgiven Dartrey for the intemperateness which cut off a brilliant soldier from the service.
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