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Carden was gone down to the scene of the flood in great agitation. Henry told Grace not to worry herself, for that he would find him and relieve his fears. He then made Grace promise to go to bed at once, and to lie within blankets. She didn't like that idea, but consented. "It is my duty to obey you now in every thing," said she. Henry left her, and ran down to the Town Hall.
Remembrance of the prediction made to her returned immediately to her mind. The recent and ill explained attempt to poison her, too, very naturally added to her fears. Without directly and positively suspecting her brothers-in-law of that crime, she knew that in them she had two implacable enemies.
"He will receive you, my boy; he will receive you. No fears on that score," said the doctor, with a heartiness that carried conviction. "But don't ask me what to do. I'm not going to interfere in the Lord's work. He is leading you.
You will not be vain when I add, she has more than once lamented your ill state of health, and expressed some fears that it was not growing better. The Sallys beg me to make their best wishes for your health and happiness acceptable to you. Shall I add, their love also? Friend Wadsworth has engaged in the supplies for the French navy and troops.
In this distress they resolved for the fields as the less dangerous situation of the two a resolution which, while the rest of the company were hurried into it by their fears, my uncle embraced upon cool and deliberate consideration. "They went out, then, having pillows tied upon their heads with napkins; and this was their whole defence against the storm of stones that fell around them.
When many were together no words of unhappiness were heard. It was at those small meetings of two or three that women would weep instead of smiling, and that men would run their hands through their hair and sit in silence, thinking of their ruined hopes and divided children. I have spoken of Southern hopes and Northern fears, and have endeavored to explain the feelings of each party.
With much ado obtained an excuse from drinking of wine, and did only taste a drop of Sack which he had for his lady, who is, he fears, a little consumptive, and her beauty begins to want its colour. It was Malago Sack, which, he says, is certainly 30 years old, and I tasted a drop of it, and it was excellent wine, like a spirit rather than wine.
Chaced from the open country, these robbers fly into the forest, and lie in wait to break in upon every unguarded avenue of the mind, and overwhelm it with religious fears and prejudices. The stoutest antagonist, if he remit his watch a moment, is oppressed.
The weapons of slander were blunted by the fact that about May 1900 the Transvaal Government, wishing to allay the fears of the women in the farms, published an announcement in the 'Volksstem' advising every burgher to leave his family upon the farms as the enemy were treating women and children with the utmost consideration and respect.
But fears of a French onslaught on the southern Netherlands still caused timorous counsels to prevail.
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