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He was content to accept the miracle; and to rejoice in it with all his great honest heart. Knowing nothing of feminine psychology, he could not realize that a week of Puppy Wolf's sole and undiluted companionship had bored Lady horribly and had begun to get on her nerves; nor that she had learned to miss and yearn for the big, wise, ever-gentle mate whom she had so long neglected.
The window looked out under the overarching boughs of a thick apple-orchard, now all in a blush with blossoms and pink-tipped buds, and the light came golden-green, strained through flickering leaves, and an ever-gentle rustle and whirr of branches and blossoms, a chitter of birds, and an indefinite whispering motion, as the long heads of orchard-grass nodded and bowed to each other under the trees, seemed to give the room the quiet hush of some little side-chapel in a cathedral, where green and golden glass softens the sunlight, and only the sigh and rustle of kneeling worshippers break the stillness of the aisles.
Agatha, the ever-gentle Agatha, kissed the hands of the lovely stranger, and pointing to her brother, made signs which appeared to me to mean that he had been sorrowful until she came. Some hours passed thus, while they, by their countenances, expressed joy, the cause of which I did not comprehend.
She recalled without an effort those tones of the morning, tones of tenderness and yet of wisdom and considerate thought, that had sounded only for her welfare. Never had Egremont appeared to her in a light so subduing. He was what man should be to woman ever-gentle, and yet a guide.
Had he told them precisely what she was seeking they had been, possibly, less at ease. "Let her hasten," cried the courier, "for I am famished." "Have patience, Anatole," murmured the ever-gentle Cadoux. "The good woman did not expect us." Anatole! The name buzzed through Caron's brain. To whom did it belong? He knew of someone who bore it.
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