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"What do you want to do, now the war's over?" she said at last, with a smile, looking up. "I suppose I want to settle down somewhere on land, if I had the money." "Here? or in Canada?" "Oh, at home." "I thought so. Well, Mr. Dempsey, Captain Ellesborough and I shall be quite ready to help you in any scheme you take up. You understand?" "That's awfully kind of you but "
He left the horses to Jenny, and just marched off. In the lane he met me, and gave notice. Such a cock-and-bull story as you never heard! But I couldn't do anything with him." "I'll go and tackle him," said Janet at once. "We can't lose him. The work will go to smash." She waved a farewell to Ellesborough, and ran back to the house.
It said I should repent casting him off that I had treated him shamefully that I was a vile woman and though I had got the better of him for the time, he would have his revenge before long." Ellesborough shrugged his shoulders contemptuously. "Threats are cheap! I hope you soon put that out of your mind?" She made a little restless movement. "Yes, I I suppose so.
This world of the new woman, with its widening horizons, its atmosphere of change and discovery, its independence of men, soothed some deep smart in her that Janet was only now beginning to realize. And yet, Janet remembered the vicar, and had watched the talk with Ellesborough. Clearly to be the professed enemy of man did not altogether disincline you for his company!
The following day, Ellesborough set out in the early afternoon for Great End Farm, the bearer of much news. The day was dark and rainy, with almost a gale blowing, but his spirits had never been higher. The exultation of the great victory, the incredible Victory, seemed to breathe upon him from the gusty wind, to be driving the westerly clouds, and crying in all the noises of the woods.
Yes! after all these weeks together, not even Janet knew her much better. The sense of mystery remained; although the progress of the relation between her and Ellesborough was becoming very evident, not only indeed to Janet, but to everybody at the farm. His departure for France had been delayed owing to the death in action of the officer who was to have been sent home to replace him.
A shadow had fallen suddenly, it seemed to Janet, over Rachel's aspect, but she at once endorsed what Ellesborough had said. "We can't settle things can we? till we've seen his people. We've got to decide whether I'll go to America, or he'll come here." "But we want to say" Ellesborough turned gravely to Janet "that first and foremost, we wish to do the best for you."
There was no lasting taint left in mind and soul nothing to prevent her being a pure and faithful wife to George Ellesborough, and a good mother to his children. It was another Rachel to whom all that had happened, a Rachel she had a right to forget! She was weak in will she had confessed it. But George Ellesborough was strong.
But for the moment, her deep satisfaction with the life she had chosen, the congruity between it and her, gave her a peculiar charm. She breathed content, and there is no more beautifying thing. She had thought a good deal about Ellesborough since their meeting; yet not absorbingly, for she had her work to do.
You remember you were astonished to find I had sent the girls to the Shepherds' dance? I did it to get them out of the way and if you hadn't said you were going to that service I should have had to invent something to send you away." "I always thought he was in Canada?" said Janet, in bewilderment. "What did he want? Have you told Captain Ellesborough?" "No, I haven't told George.
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