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Updated: June 3, 2025
'What made you treat me so, little Gwenny? I asked, for Lorna would not ask lest the reply should vex me. 'Because 'ee be'est below her so. Her shanna' have a poor farmering chap, not even if her were a Carnishman. All her land, and all her birth and who be you, I'd like to know?
And when this rumour must have reached them, through women who came to and fro, as some entirely faithful to them were allowed to do, we sent Captain Simon Carfax, the father of little Gwenny, to demand an interview with the Counsellor, by night, and as it were secretly.
"Gwenny," began my Lorna, in a tone of high rank and dignity, "go and fetch the letters which I gave you at various times for despatch to Mistress Ridd." "How can I fetch them, when they are gone? It be no use for him to tell no lies " "Now, Gwenny, can you look at me?" I asked, very sternly; for the matter was no joke to me, after a year's unhappiness. "I don't want to look at 'ee.
And his first desire to right himself, and easiest way to do it, was by exerting parental authority upon Gwenny. And so he became to the other men a warning and a great annoyance.
While I have my grandfather to prevent all violence; and little Gwenny to keep watch on those who try to watch me; and you, above all others, John, ready at a moment, if the worst comes to the worst this neglected Lorna Doone was never in such case before. Therefore do not squeeze my hand, John; I am safe without it, and you do not know your strength." Ah, I knew my strength right well.
'Ay, and she was my daughter, my last and only child of five; and for her I would give this mine, and all the gold will ever come from it. 'You shall have her, without either mine or gold; if you only prove to me that you did not abandon her. 'Abandon her! I abandon Gwenny! He cried with such a rage of scorn, that I at once believed him.
Ally was abstracted, for Gwenny had slipped from her chair and was whispering in her ear. It never occurred to Ally to ask what Gwenda had been doing, or what she had been thinking of, or what she felt, or to listen to anything she had to say. Her sister might just as well not have existed for all the interest Ally showed in her.
"Are they sure she wasn't hurt when she was trying to go somewhere?" asked Mary. "Mary saw a little girl run over by an automobile last night," said Gwenny. "She wasn't really run over," corrected Mary, "but pretty near." "You don't think it was Rosanna?" cried Helen eagerly. "Oh, no, it wasn't Rosanna," said Mary.
'Go, and get your letters, John, said Lorna very gravely; 'or at least your mother's letters, made of messages to you. As for Gwenny, she shall go before Lord Justice Jeffreys. I knew that Lorna meant it not; but thought that the girl deserved a frightening; as indeed she did. But we both mistook the courage of this child of Cornwall.
I meanwhile was occupied, to the best of my ability, in taking my snow-shoes off, yet wondering much within myself why Lorna did not come to me. But presently I knew the cause, for Gwenny called me, and I ran, and found my darling quite unable to say so much as, "John, how are you?"
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