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Not pretty no, not pretty; but what a magic smile she had! She sat down at the table facing him, and leaned her elbows upon it. "I wonder if I could!" she said again, and then broke into her sudden laugh. "What's the joke?" asked Merryon. "Oh, nothing!" she said, recovering herself. "Didn't she see you last night? I thought you were more or less in the public eye," said Merryon.
But yet the colonel could not find it in his heart to be angry with her. He was very angry with Merryon, so angry that for a whole fortnight he scarcely spoke to him. But when the end of the fortnight came, and with it the first break in the rains, little Mrs. Merryon went smiling forth and returned his call.
Moreover, that form of punishment wouldn't scare her. So, you see, it would come to the same thing in the end. She is determined to face what I face for the present." "And you're determined to let her!" growled the colonel. Merryon shrugged his shoulders. "You'll probably lose her," the colonel persisted, gnawing fiercely at his moustache. "Have you considered that?"
If you begin to feel queer, send for the doctor at the outset!" He abandoned his attitude of disapproval towards Merryon after that interview, realizing possibly its injustice. He even declared in a letter to his wife that Mrs. Merryon was an engaging chit, with a will of her own that threatened to rule them all! Mrs.
He joined Merryon, and received the latter's report, grimly taciturn. They talked together for a space of needs and expediencies. The fell disease had got to be checked somehow. He spoke of recalling the officers on leave. There had been such a huge sick list that summer that they were reduced to less than half their normal strength.
Willie was still in the middle of a glowing account of a fire, in which Frank and his friends Dale and Baxmore were the chief actors; and Emma was listening with heightened colour, parted lips, and sparkling eyes, when Matty Merryon opened the door and announced Mr Tippet.
"But it's practically a matter of life and death, man!" insisted the colonel. "You can't afford any silly sentiment in an affair like this." "I am not sentimental," Merryon said, and his lips twitched a little with the words. "But all the same, since she has set her heart on staying, she shall stay. I have promised that she shall." "You are mad," the colonel declared. "Just think a minute!
"Well, you never took me for a lady, did you?" she said, half-defiantly. "What was it?" repeated Merryon, sticking to the point. Again she grimaced at him, but she answered, "Oh, I only after I'd had my bath lay on the floor and ran round my head for a bit. It's not a bit difficult, once you've got the knack. But I got thinking of Mrs.
They pressed on through mud that was ankle-deep to the barracks. There during all the nightmare hours that followed Merryon worked with the strength of ten. He gave no voluntary thought to his wife waiting for him in loneliness, but ever and anon those blazing eyes of hers rose before his mental vision, and he saw again that brave, sweet smile with which she had watched him go.
"For Heaven's sake, man, have some brandy!" he said, proffering a flask of his own. "You're looking pretty unhealthy. What is it? Feeling a bit off, eh?" He held Merryon's wrist while he drank the brandy, regarding him with a troubled frown the while. "What is the matter with you, man?" he said. "You're not frightening yourself? You wouldn't be such a fool!" Merryon did not answer.
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