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'I darethay I thall be jutht the thame, unleth I get married. Freda glances up, and perceives a smile of amusement on Colonel Vaughan's lips, and the usual calm inanity on Miss Nugent's handsome features. 'That will depend on yourself, I am sure, said the colonel. Freda looks again, and sees the colonel's magnificent eyes fixed on the young lady, who returns his glance, and simpers out,
Nugent's gallant soul had gone forth to join the ranks of the great Captain of his salvation. It was about half an hour after Nugent's death that young Parkinson, who had been engaged somewhere outside the tent, came in and said to Hutchinson "The launch, under sail, and with only about half a dozen hands in her, has just hove in sight from somewhere up the river.
"Nothing is the matter," he answered, in the low absent tone of a man whose mind was secretly pursuing its own train of thought. Oscar said no more. Once, twice, three times, Lucilla's hand passed slowly over Nugent's face. He submitted to it, silently, gravely, immovably a perfect contrast to the talkative, lively young man of half an hour since.
It was said by a fool: it would never have been said at all, if he had not written his wonderful letter. Still, it echoed, with a painful fidelity, the misgiving secretly present at that moment in my own mind and, more yet, it echoed the misgiving in Nugent's mind, the doubt of himself which his own lips had confessed to me in so many words. I wished the rector good night, and went upstairs.
The news of his only son's engagement took Captain Nugent's breath away, which, all things considered, was perhaps the best thing it could have done. He sat at home in silent rage, only exploding when the well-meaning Mrs. Kingdom sought to minimize his troubles by comparing them with those of Job.
The bright flush which always indicated the sudden rising of a thought in her mind, flew over her face. She unconsciously held Nugent's hand in her own, absorbed in the interest of realizing the new thought. For a moment, she stood, still as a statue, consulting with herself. The moment passed, she dropped Nugent's hand, and turned gaily to me. "Will you think me very obstinate?" she asked.
Lady Anne and Lady Catherine H , Lady Langdale's daughters, were at this time leaning on Miss Nugent's arm, and moved along with this party to the inner pagoda. There were to be cards in one room, music in another, dancing in a third, and in this little room there were prints and chess-boards, &c.
The only words which it is necessary to repeat here, are these: "She accompanies me, at my express request, to the house of a married lady who is a relative of mine, and under whose care she will remain, until the time arrives for our marriage." Those lines instantly lightened my heart of the burden that had oppressed it on the journey. Nugent's married relative was Oscar's married relative too.
I left him and went out into the valley alone. "The heavenly tranquillity, the comforting solitude helped me. I saw my position and his, in their true light. For Lucilla's sake, and for Nugent's sake, I felt the certain assurance in my own mind that it was my duty, and not his, to go. "Don't blame me; don't grieve for me. Read the rest.
The master's come home long life to him! and family come home yesterday, all entirely! And I driv Miss Nugent's maid, that maid that was, and another; so I had the luck to be in it along WID 'em, and see all, from first to last.
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