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He had looked forward to a talk with Marta as a kindred spirit, yet it was difficult for him to reconcile the woman speaking now with the woman who had kissed him on the forehead. But he said nothing as he was marched away. "Miss Galland!" exclaimed Bouchard in a way that said he knew her story. "Yes, that little monkey can depend on more justice than he deserves.
For the fraction of a second the dirigibles seemed prisms and the planes still-winged dragon-flies hung on a blue wall. With the next fraction the prisms were seen to be growing and the stretch of the plane wings broadening. "They are racing ours against theirs!" exclaimed Mrs. Galland. "Look, look!" Still the gardener bent to his work, unconcerned. "I forgot!
"You forgot to leave the lantern," called Mrs. Galland. "I have come to get it, if you please." Marta did not answer. Her head had sunk forward; her hands, bearing the weight of her body, were resting on her knees. All she could think was that one more lie would break the camel's back. "Marta, please mayn't I come in?" rose the gentle voice on the other side of the door. "Marta, don't you hear me?
Martha laughed. "Beautiful! How could a woman with black hair and a dark skin and no flesh on her bones be beautiful?" "It has been known to happen," said Jane curtly. "Mercy, no!" cried Martha Galland. "She simply took the name of Gordon that is, her father did. He was a Russian peasant a Jew. And he fell in love with a girl who was of noble family a princess, I think."
I asked if I might come in." "It's too childish and silly to remain silent any longer," thought Marta. Tired nerves revived spasmodically under another call to action. "Yes, certainly, mother yes, do!" she said in a forced, metallic tone. Mrs. Galland entered to find her daughter before the mirror brushing her hair with hectic vigor.
"Oh, mother," Marta went on, "I wish you would go with me to the class some morning, you who have seen and felt war, and tell it all as you saw it to the children!" "But," remonstrated Mrs. Galland, "I'm an old-fashioned woman; and, Marta, your father was an officer, as your grandfather was, too. I am sure he would not approve of your school, and I could do nothing against his wishes."
Galland went on gently, with what Marta had once called the wisdom of mothers, "Lanny lives and lives for you. Your destiny is life and to make the most of life, as you always have. Isn't it, Marta?" "Yes," she breathed after a pause, in conviction, as she pressed her mother's hands. "Yes, you have a gift of making things simple and clear."
It was not yet time to think of marriage for her. If it had been Mrs. Galland would not have been so hospitable to Colonel Westerling. She would hardly have been, even if the colonel had been younger, say, of Captain Lanstron's age.
The demon had moved one of his claws to fresh ground; the inferno on the La Tir side of the frontier had shifted to a valley beyond the Galland estate, where the firing appeared to come from the Brown side.
She had a sense of falling, and that was all. The next that she knew she was in a long chair on the veranda and the vague shadows bending over her gradually identified themselves as her mother and Minna. "I remember when you were telling of the last war that you didn't swoon at the sight of the wounded, mother," Marta whispered. "But I was not wounded," replied Mrs Galland.
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