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"Ah, Miss! it is a lone place for one so beautiful as you are to be alone. You ought never to be on foot." The girl stopped, and looked full, but without any alarm in her eyes, into the man's face. "Go away!" she said, with a half-peevish, half-kindly tone of command. "I don't know you."
The sisters sat silent for some moments, the one vainly trying to keep down the struggling anguish of a stricken heart, and the other, half-angry at the intrusion, endeavouring to fashion a form of greeting that should convey her real impressions, without being verbally committed. At length the latter said, half-kindly, half-repulsively:
"I will tell you," he said, and his dark, face laughed into hers with a merriment half-mischievous, half-kindly. "I am treading the path of virtue, mignonne, and uncommon lonely I'm finding it. You shall relieve the monotony. We will be virtuous together for a while. You shall be my wife!" He stooped with the words and ere she knew it his lips were on her own.
The Three Jolly Anglers is an inn of a distinctly jovial aspect, with its toppling gables, its creaking sign, and its bright lattices, which, like merry little twinkling eyes, look down upon the eternal river to-day with the same half-waggish, half-kindly air as they have done for generations.
He glanced at Miss X with half-pitying, half-kindly, laughing eyes, and said with his ringing voice in Hindi "Bara-Sahib cannot go any further without the help of someone else's eyes. Sahib's eyes are his enemies. Let the Sahib ride on my cow. She cannot stumble." "I! Ride on a cow, and a five-legged one at that?
The next morning I met Lady Glenmire and Miss Pole setting out on a long walk to find some old woman who was famous in the neighbourhood for her skill in knitting woollen stockings. Miss Pole said to me, with a smile half-kindly and half-contemptuous upon her countenance, "I have been just telling Lady Glenmire of our poor friend Mrs Forrester, and her terror of ghosts.
'Harry, said he, half-kindly, and choking, 'you're better out of it. 'I'm the best friend he could have by him, sir. 'You're the best tool he could have handy, for you're a gentleman. 'I hope I shan't offend you, grandfather, but I must go. 'Don't you see, Harry Richmond, you're in for an infernal marriage ceremony there! 'The young lady is not of age, interposed my aunt. 'Eh?
I did not notice his absence until he himself announced it. As we shook hands, I said to him: "I have been thinking about that Society of yours. I mean to join it." "I am very glad," he replied. "You will find it a new sensation, quite outside the beaten track, which you know so well." There was a shade of half-kindly contempt in his voice, which missed me at the moment.
He shut the window sharply, then strode to the lamp, and turned it up. Then, abruptly he wheeled and spoke in a voice half-kindly, half-contemptuous. "Muriel, you're a little idiot!" There was little in the words to comfort her, yet she was instantly and vastly reassured. She was also for the moment overwhelmingly ashamed, but he did not give her time to think of that.
Men have lived and died, nations have waxed and waned, still it stands, all unchanged beside the river, watching the Great Tragedy which we call "Life" with that same look of supreme wisdom, that half-waggish, half-kindly air, which I have already mentioned once before.
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