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Updated: May 25, 2025
The father and mother sat by the fireplace that was spanned by the four- centred arch bearing the family shields on its haunches, and groaned aloud the lady more than Sir John. 'To think this should have come upon us in our old age! said he. 'Speak for yourself! she snapped through her sobs. 'I am only one-and- forty! . . . Why didn't ye ride faster and overtake 'em!
It was no mature woman with a long dark vista of intrigue behind her who was tormented thus, but a girl of simple life, not yet one-and twenty, who had been caught during her days of immaturity like a bird in a springe. To calm herself the more completely, she rose from her little stool and left the room, overturning the stool with her skirts as she went.
As major Willoughby had reached that rank the day he was one-and- twenty, the reader can understand the precise date when Maud began to take her present views of his appearance and character. "I am surprised to hear you say so, Maud! Papa says he is better 'set up, as he calls it, by his English drill, and that he looks altogether more like a soldier than he did."
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