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Gerard put his fingers into his ears; but presently he saw in Denys's face a horror that contrasted strangely with this sudden merriment. "What ails thee?" said he, sitting up and staring. "Hush!" said Denys, and his hand spoke even more plainly than his lips. "Listen to me."
"What sort of vengeance is this? would you be so mad as rob the wheel, and give the vermin an easy death?" The mob was kept passive by the archers' steel rather than by Denys's words, and growled at intervals with flashing eyes. The municipal officers, seeing this, collected round, and with the archers made a guard, and prudently carried the accused back to gaol.
"Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard." As You Like It. Gerard bore the Amazonian satire mighty calmly. He had little personal vanity. "Nay, 'chambriere," said he, with a smile, "mine is all unworthy your pains; take you this fair growth in hand!" and he pointed to Denys's vegetable. "Oh, time for that, when I starch the besoms."
"This rebellion of ours is a bite," growled a soldier called Simon, who had elected himself Denys's comrade. Denys said nothing, but made a little vow to St. Mars to shoot this Anthony of Burgundy dead, should the rebellion, that had cost him Gerard, prove no rebellion.
Gerard had got hold of Denys's long hair, and twisting it hard, caught the end between his side teeth, and with the strong muscles of his youthful neck easily kept up the soldier's head, and struck out lustily across the current.
The man's countenance fell, but he saw in Denys's eye that resistance would be dangerous; he submitted. Gerard it was who objected. He said, "Y pensez-vous? to put my hand on a thief, it maketh my flesh creep." "Childishness! all trades must live. Besides, I have my reasons. Be not you wiser than your elder." "No.
"That may be, my dear Adelaide." The acidity developed into a note of displeasure. "In a sense doubtless we are all equal. But in spite of that, extremes of intimacy are often inadvisable. I do not think you are altogether discreet in making a bosom friend of a woman in Mrs. Denys's position. A very good woman, I grant you. But familiarity with her is altogether unsuitable.
He had not counted on exchanging greetings with a petard. Denys's words had surprised his hosts, but hardly more than their deportment now did him. They all three came creeping up to where he sat, and looked down into him with their lips parted, as if he had been some strange phenomenon. And growing agitation succeeded to amazement.
If I mistake not, he took Mrs. Denys's measure some time ago." "Did he?" said Mrs. Lorimer vaguely. Miss Whalley looked annoyed. The Vicar's wife obviously lacked sufficient backbone to quarrel on the subject. She was wont to say that she detested invertebrate women. "I think the Vicar was not altogether surprised," Mrs. Lorimer went on, in her gentle, conversational way.
They all turned their eyes to the door in dead silence. A little muttering was heard outside; Denys's rough organ and a woman's soft and mellow voice. Presently that stopped; and then the door opened slowly, and Margaret Brandt, dressed as I have described, and somewhat pale, but calm and lovely, stood on the threshold, looking straight before her.
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