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They bought the ring on the spot, and the marriage took place at the nearest church within half-an-hour. A day or two later there came a letter from Mrs. Dornell to her husband, written before she knew of his stroke.
'My husband is so seriously ill, she continued, 'that my absence and Betty's on your arrival is naturally accounted for. He promised to leave early, and to write to her soon. 'And when I think the time is ripe, he said, 'I'll write to her. I may have something to tell her that will bring her to graciousness. It was about one o'clock in the morning when Mrs. Dornell reached Falls- Park.
Reynard immediately said that he would be the last to wish to injure Squire Dornell, and left the room, and as soon as the Squire had recovered breath and equanimity, he went out of the inn, leaning on the arm of Tupcombe.
Betty at length appeared in the distance in answer to the call, and came up pale, but looking innocent of having seen a living soul. Mrs. Dornell groaned in spirit at such duplicity in the child of her bosom.
Dornell's room, accompanied by the humming of a tune. She knew that the doctor had not paid a visit that morning, and that it was too heavy to be the valet or any other man-servant. Looking up, she saw Squire Dornell fully dressed, descending toward her in his drab caped riding-coat and boots, with the swinging easy movement of his prime. Her face expressed her amazement.
Would to the Lord something would happen to prevent him! How they reached home that night Tupcombe hardly knew. The Squire was in such pain that he was obliged to recline upon his horse, and Tupcombe was afraid every moment lest he would fall into the road. But they did reach home at last, and Mr. Dornell was instantly assisted to bed.
She was a convalescent from smallpox a disease whose prevalence at that period was a terror of which we at present can hardly form a conception. An idea suddenly energized Betty's apathetic features. She glanced at her mother; Mrs. Dornell had been looking in the opposite direction. Betty said that she wished to go back to the cottage for a moment to speak to a girl in whom she took an interest.
The surgeon drew a basin-full of blood from him, but it was nearly six o'clock before he came to himself. The dinner was completely disorganized, and some had gone home long ago; but two or three remained. 'Bless my soul, Baxby kept repeating, 'I didn't know things had come to this pass between Dornell and his lady!
Dornell, like certain other wives, though she had never shown any great affection for him while he lived, awoke suddenly to his many virtues, and zealously embraced his opinion about delaying Betty's union with her husband, which she had formerly combated strenuously. 'Poor man! how right he was, and how wrong was I! Eighteen was certainly the lowest age at which Mr.
Dornell and the girl had returned to King's-Hintock for a day or two, that Reynard had set out for the Continent, and that Betty had since been packed off to school. She did not realize her position as Reynard's child-wife so the story went and though somewhat awe-stricken at first by the ceremony, she had soon recovered her spirits on finding that her freedom was in no way to be interfered with.
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