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But then it had been equally clear to him that he could not, as a man of honour, assist his own cause by telling a tale, which tale had become known to him as the friend of the man against whom it would have to be told. He had resolved upon that as he left Montague and Mrs Hurtle together upon the sands at Lowestoft. But what was he to do now?
Here near Mitchell's, on a lonesome roadside, stood Kincaid's Battery, fated there to stay for hours yet, in hateful idleness and a fierce July sun, watching white smoke-lines of crackling infantry multiply in the landscape or bursting shells make white smoke-rings in the bright air, and to listen helplessly to the boom, hurtle and boom of other artilleries and the far away cheering and counter-cheering of friend and foe.
'Shocking; yes. One is shocked at it all. I pity your mother, and I pity you. 'It seems to me that nothing ever will be happy for us, said Hetta. She was longing to be told something of Mrs Hurtle, but she did not as yet dare to ask the question. 'I do not know whether to wait for your mother or not, said he after a short pause. 'Pray wait for her if you are not very busy.
Joan was breathless with haste; her draggled skirts clung to her; and the struggle against the storm made her giddy. So they reached the place of shelter; and the gale burst over it with a great, crowning yell of wind and hurtle of rain. Then John Barren opened the byre door and Joan Tregenza passed in before him; whereupon he followed and shut the door.
'I suppose I shall see Mr Crumb before I go, said Mrs Hurtle. 'She don't deserve it; do she? And even now she never says a word about him that I call respectful. She looks on him as just being better than Mrs Buggins's children. That's all. 'She'll be all right when he has once got her home. 'And I shall be all alone by myself, said Mrs Pipkin, with her apron up to her eyes.
On the following morning Mrs Hurtle dressed herself with almost more than her usual simplicity, but certainly with not less than her usual care, and immediately after breakfast seated herself at her desk, nursing an idea that she would work as steadily for the next hour as though she expected no special visitor. Of course she did not write a word of the task which she had prescribed to herself.
Though it was midsummer Hetta entered the room with her veil down. She adjusted it as she followed Ruby up the stairs, moved by a sudden fear of her rival's scrutiny. Mrs Hurtle rose from her chair and came forward to greet her visitor, putting out both her hands to do so.
Arrows began to hurtle around us; but above all other sounds pealed the notes of the bugle, summoning our comrades to the attack. Quick upon the signal they were seen debouching from the woods and coming down at a gallop. When within two hundred yards of the houses, the charging horsemen divided into two columns, and wheeled round the town, with the intention of attacking it on both sides.
'I suppose girls do speak for themselves more than they did formerly. 'A deal more, Mrs Hurtle; quite different. You hear them talk of spooning with this fellow, and spooning with that fellow, and that before their very fathers and mothers! When I was young we used to do it, I suppose, only not like that. 'You did it on the sly. 'I think we got married quicker than they do, anyway.
Even grown dogs might hurtle him backward or sideways with the impact of their heavy bodies; and backward or sideways he would go, in the air or sliding on the ground, but always with his legs under him and his feet downward to the mother earth. When dogs fight, there are usually preliminaries to the actual combat snarlings and bristlings and stiff-legged struttings.
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