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Brunow," he responded, raising his forage-cap and bowing, "Captain Fyffe, my dear friend Corporal Hinge, I am without words to thank you. God knows I thank you in my heart!" His voice failed him altogether then, and we all sat silent for a time. "What are we waiting for?" asked Brunow. "Every minute is precious. Let us push along." "You see the ford," I answered.
Petersburg, when she was courted, admired, adored. I am sorry for her in my soul. It would wring my heart to let her go. And notice, Captain Fyffe, I am not trying to thrust her on the world, I am not trying to introduce her to any friend of mine. When you saw us in the street yesterday she drove out for the first time in my company in London.
Of course I knew already the man's complete want of responsibility. Here almost in his first breath he couldn't dream of allowing me to run the risk alone, and here in almost his last breath there was to be no risk at all. I dreaded his companionship; and when I had taken time to think the matter over I told him so quite plainly. "My dear Fyffe," he answered, "you don't know me.
"Am I to understand," I asked, "that Lady Rollinson and Miss Rossano have left town?" "Can't say, sir," said the man, staring straight above my head with unmoving eyes, but fidgeting nervously with his hands and feet. "My orders is: 'Not at home to Captain Fyffe." "That will do," I returned, and walked away, more puzzled than I had ever been in my life before.
"I suppose," I asked him, "you know what to expect if we fail and are caught?" He took me by the arm and walked with me along the road, sinking his voice to a confidential murmur. "You're a son of Mars, Fyffe, and you ought to be able to understand my feelings.
"Captain Fyffe, I am a woman of the world; I am expérimentée unhappily for me, too, too bitterly experienced. Believe me, I already have the very poorest opinion of your sex. I beseech you not to lower it further." "The most casual inquiry," I answered, "if you should care to make it, will confirm every word I have so far spoken. And now I need detain you little longer.
I have no doubt that Miss Rossano will attach full weight to your judgment and counsel. I am very sorry, but I have no right to advise you even at your own request." "I had hoped for another answer," he responded. "I had even ventured to think Ah, well, my dear Fyffe, I cannot help myself, and if you will not help me " "I would, sir, if I could," I answered.
"Violet," I said, "is my promised wife, and I am not going to allow any folly of this kind to come between her and me. I shall insist upon my right to see her, and to clear myself of any accusation which may have been brought against me in my absence." "You may insist as much as you please, Captain Fyffe," Lady Rollinson answered.
"What I propose, my dear Fyffe, is this: I cannot read my daughter's mind at all, and so far as I can tell she may have no such preference as leads to marriage for either of you. She is half English by birth, and wholly English by education. If she would marry at all she will follow her own inclination, after the fashion of young ladies in this country.
Then I slipped down to the door, and waited in the portico. The postman knocked next door, and I was ashamed to show myself; but only a second or two later he appeared with a single letter in his hand. "Captain Fyffe?" he asked, inquiringly, and I responding "Captain Fyffe," he handed me the letter. The superscription was in Violet's hand.
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