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As of old, Richard took both Lali's hands in his, patted them, and cheerily said: "Well, well, Lali, we've got the wild man home again safe and sound, haven't we the same old vagabond? We'll have to turn him into a Christian again 'For while the lamp holds out to burn' "
Lali's face underwent a slight change as her husband's fingers touched her neck. "I must go," she said. "I hope I have not broken up a serious conversation or were you not so serious after all?" she said, glancing archly at General Armour. "We were talking of women," said Lambert. "The subject is wide," replied Lali, "and the speakers many. One would think some wisdom might be got in such a case."
As if by tacit consent, every incident or development of Lali's life was influenced by his judgment and decision. He had been more to her than General Armour, Mrs. Armour, or Marion. Schooled as he was in all the ways of the world, he had at the same time a mind as sensitive as a woman's, an indescribable gentleness, a persuasive temperament.
Armour's hands clasped painfully. For an instant she had almost the same thought as had Marion on the first morning of Lali's coming; but that passed, and left her gazing helplessly after the horse-woman. The flying blanket had frightened the blooded horse, and he made desperate efforts to fulfil the general's predictions. Lali soon found that she had miscalculated.
It came into General Armour's hands, and he, seeing that it bore the stamp of the Hudson's Bay Company, with the legend, From Fort St. Charles, concluded that it was news of Lali's father. Then came the question whether the letter should be given to her. The general was for doing so, and he prevailed.
Marion, at first surprised, was now touched, as she could not have thought it possible concerning this wild creature, and her hand went out and caught Lali's gently.
As of old, Richard took both Lali's hands in his, patted them, and cheerily said: "Well, well, Lali, we've got the wild man home again safe and sound, haven't we the same old vagabond? We'll have to turn him into a Christian again 'For while the lamp holds out to burn' "
It was upon this basis, indeed, that Richard appealed to her in the first trying days of Lali's life among them. To oppose your will to Marion on the basis of superior knowledge was only to turn her into a rebel; and a very effective rebel she made; for she had a pretty gift at the retort courteous, and she could take as much, and as well, as she gave.
For none of them had yet reckoned with that one great element in Lali's character that thing which is the birthright of all who own the North for a mother, the awe of imagination, the awe and the pain, which in its finest expression comes near, very near, to the supernatural.
The years had seen many shifting scenes in their companionship; they had been as often at war as at peace; but they had respected each other, each after her own fashion; and now they had a real and mutual regard. Lali's was a slim, lithe figure, wearing its fashionable robes with an air of possession; and the face above it, if not entirely beautiful, had a strange, warm fascination.
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