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But my broken rib, which was set by a doctor, who chanced to be at the wedding, was allotted to Annie's care; and great inflammation ensuing, it was quite enough to content her. This doctor had pronounced poor Lorna dead; wherefore Ruth refused most firmly to have aught to do with him. She took the whole case on herself; and with God's help she bore it through.
Presently it caught on something, and went upward boldly; and then it struck into many forks, and then it fell, and rose again. 'Do you know what all that is, John? asked Lorna, smiling cleverly at the manner of my staring. 'How on earth should I know? Papists burn Protestants in the flesh; and Protestants burn Papists in effigy, as we mock them. Lorna, are they going to burn any one to-night?
'Lorna, darling, I said at length, for men are more impatient in trials of time than women are, 'do you not even wish to know what your proper name is? 'How can it matter to me, John? she answered, with a depth of grief which made me seem a trifler. 'It can never matter now, when there are none to share it.
Dear Annie had not only cheated the Doones, but also had gotten the best of me, by a pledge to a thing impossible. And I bitterly said, "I am not like Lorna: a pledge once given, I keep it." "I will not have a word against Lorna," cried Annie; "I will answer for her truth as surely as I would for my own or yours, John." And with that she vanquished me.
"I guess about everything happened to me except going west," returned Lane. "But I don't want to talk about that. I'm too glad to be home." "What's that on your breast?" she queried, suddenly, pointing at the Croix de Guerre he wore. "That? Lorna, that's my medal." "Gee! Let me see." She got up and came round to peer down closely, to finger the decoration. "French!
I look at both, and what I say to myself is this: 'Which would Lorna choose of them? Of course, I am a fool for this; any man may call me so, and I will not quarrel with him, unless he guess my secret. Of course, I fetch my wit, if it be worth the fetching, back again to business. But there my heart is and must be; and all who like to try can cheat me, except upon parish matters.
Then I stroked its sides and blew upon its top, as is my custom. At the last I put him on his former shelf in the company of the chaste Lorna Doone and the gentle ladies of Mrs. Gaskell. He sits there now, this night, on the top shelf but one, just in line with the eyes, with gilt front winking in the firelight. A decayed Gibbon, I had thought, proclaims a grandfather.
I saw that she was right; though how she knew it is beyond me; and I asked her just to go in front, and bring my mother round a little. For I must let my passion pass: it may drop its weapons quickly; but it cannot come and go, before a man has time to think. Then Lorna went up to my mother, who was still in the chair of elegance; and she took her by both hands, and said,
Good God! What could I think of it? She over-rated my slow nature, to admit the question. While she leaned there, quite unable yet to save herself, Carver came to the brink of the flood, which alone was between them; and then he stroked his jet-black beard, and waited for Lorna to begin. Very likely, he thought that she would thank him for his kindness to her.
Hooted, hissed, and jeered at by the thousands of citizens on the viaduct and hill above the dock, these self-immolated prostitutes to the god of greater profits were taken to the hospitals for treatment. Among the crowd of citizens was Mrs. Edith Frennette, who had been in Everett a couple of days in connection with a lumber trust charge against her, and with her were Mrs. Lorna Mahler and Mrs.
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