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So the French officer went on his venturesome pull of a couple of miles to the French fleet, and the sailor returned to the little cottage, where were sitting Bertha and Doome. The latter, for his cleverness and perhaps good looks, had begun to consider the sailor as worth far more than those sixty youths who had caused her to laugh when he referred to only one of them.
As this is only a little comedy, and by no means tragical, we pass over the next scene, and simply state, that Bertha, before all those neighbors, forgot everybody but her husband, if he may be called so, and the church had said so; that Daniel felt great remorse at what he had done; that he told Doome again that he wished the shark had finished him; that Doome didn't or wouldn't hear, for her idol was broken, and so was Doome's heart, nearly.
It would seem that there were special wardens here for ale drawing. Archaeologia, xxxvi, 235. Cf. J.H. Matthews, History of St. Ives , 144, et passim. Bishop Hobhouse, Churchwdn's Acc'ts of Croscombe, Pilton, etc., Somerset Rec. See the precedents given for the Western Circuit in Prynne, Canterburies' Doome, 152. Cf. also, ibid., 128 ff.
The young sailor showed a deal of doubtful feeling as he saw the tearful energy with which little Bertha parted with her make-believe husband; and when little Doome, who had been let into all the secrets, except the one that Daniel kept to himself namely, that he was Daniel, when little Doome crept up to condole with him on the hard case of the newly-married pair, it must be said that he pushed her away quite roughly.
"And you didn't say it when you came! and you actually gave her to him! and you saved his life! and oh! you, you CAPTAIN of a man!" Thus Doome spoke and was comforted. And, indeed, they were re-married that day. It was after Bertha had said she knew of a better wife for him, that Daniel looked at Doome, who, picking up that pipe of his, handed it to him. "Will you take care of it, Doome?"
"I suppose, Mistress, if he did not come back for six years, you would forget him, wouldn't you?" She was so lost in thought, that she didn't answer; so Doome took the answer upon herself. "You are very hard upon us women, Fritz, Mr. Fritz. No, of course she would not forget him; no wife ever forgets her husband. Why, do you think I should forget you, Fritz, Mr.
Fritz, if you were my husband, and if you went away for six years?" "There are women and women, Doome, Fräulein Doome," "Ah! hark!" At this moment the sound of a cannon-shot swept over the little cottage, and Daniel, running to the window, and putting his hand out to feel the breeze, declared that it was fired east-ward.
He sat down again, and again smoked, and as, in the most heroic poem, people eat and drink, and as Anne Boleyn would have thought it hard to starve while her trial was going on, surely, as this is only the chronicle of people such as you may meet any day, and not at all heroic, it may not be wrong to state, that plain-spoken, every-day, love-making little Doome got supper ready.
The same explanation touching the sailor's presence was then given to Bertha that I have given to you, given as the whole party were welcomed into the plain little house by its very far from plain mistress. "Do you remember faces, Mistress?" said the sailor to Doome. "Yes, friend sailor." "Do you remember them for six years?" "La! no woman can remember for six years," said Doome.
But it is a deplorable fact, that, while Doome welcomed Daniel back with a great deal of heartiness, Fräulein Bertha rather looked upon him as cruel; for what need was there that her husband should have gone? He could have hidden till the French took the place, and then he would have been free.
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