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However, I got my hundred pounds, and made up my mind to spend every farthing in presents for mother and Lorna. For Annie was married by this time, and long before I went away; as need scarcely be said, perhaps; if any one follows the weeks and the months. The wedding was quiet enough, except for everybody's good wishes; and I desire not to dwell upon it, because it grieved me in many ways.
Although he was so far before me, and riding as hard as ride he might, I saw that he had something on the horse in front of him; something which needed care, and stopped him from looking backward. In the whirling of my wits, I fancied first that this was Lorna; until the scene I had been through fell across hot brain and heart, like the drop at the close of a tragedy.
He can do as much work as three other men; and you should see him load a sledd, sir. 'I was speaking, madam, of higher usefulness, power of the brain and heart. The main thing for us upon earth is to take a large view of things. But while we talk of the heart, what is my niece Lorna doing, that she does not come and thank me, for my perhaps too prompt concession to her youthful fancies?
Bessy passed from fascinated intensity to rapture and terror. She clung to Lane. She kissed him. She wept. He told her how his ideal had been to fight for Helen, for Lorna, for her, and all American girls. And then he talked about what he had come home to of the shock the realization the disappointment and grief.
"That no man ever had a better friend! I know you, old Button-Moulder. I know your ambition to make of me a 'shining button on the vest of the world! You thought that Lorna might help. But I failed you there. I'm sorry. That was really the bitterness of the whole thing -to fail you!" "You owe me nothing," gruffly. "Only my life my sanity." "I shall doubt the latter if you stay here."
"Could he have known about Lorna Barton going out with Baxter that night Shepard was beaten?" "My Gaud! Yes, cause Baxter he tells me Burke was dere at de house." Clemm nodded his head. "Then you can take a hundred to one shot tip from me, Jimmie, that this Burke had something to do with Shepard. He may have put one of his friends on the job.
"And I think I shall cast you as Lorna." "Oh, how nice!" she laughed. "But who will be John Ridd? We need a great big man for him!" "Well, I was thinking of using Mr. Macksey," went on the manager, with a look at the hunter. "What? Me have my photograph took in moving pictures!" cried the keeper of the Lodge. "Why, I don't know how to act!"
'Oh, John, dear John, you won't tell her about Lorna oh, not to-day, dear. 'Yes, to-day, and at once, Annie. I want to have it over, and be done with it. 'Oh, but think of her, dear. I am sure she could not bear it, after this great shock already. 'She will bear it all the better, said I; 'the one will drive the other out. I know exactly what mother is.
I think we make a handsome couple eh what's your first name?" "Lorna." "Lorna, then. My name's Ed, but everybody calls me Gid." As soon as the melon was served, he ordered the champagne opened. "To our better acquaintance," said he, lifting his glass toward her. "Thank you," said she, in a suffocated voice, touching her glass to her lips.
At home we have loads of flowers in the conservatories, but sometimes one of Vere's admirers sends her a lot of early violets, or lilies of the valley, great huge boxes which must cost a small fortune, but no one thinks anything of it, or pays any attention beyond a casual remark. Here, however, it was different. "Roses!" ejaculated Lorna, in a tone of awe-stricken astonishment.
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