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Updated: May 16, 2025
There comes a point where I cannot explain the facts but only state them. You have heard of spontaneous amputation?" Across Ormiston's mind came the remembrance of a litter of puppies he had seen in the sanctum of the veterinary surgeon of his regiment. A lump rose in his throat. "Yes, go on," he said. "It is a thing that does not happen once in most men's experience.
Malcolm or Ormiston's thoughts, as he leaned against the door-way, and folded his arms across his chest to await the shining of his day-star.
This was a little too much for Sir Norman's overwrought feelings, and in the last degree of exasperation, he laid violent hands on the collar of Ormiston's doublet, and shook him as if he would have shaken the name out with a jerk. "I tell you what it is, Ormiston, you had better not aggravate me! I can stand a good deal, but I'm not exactly Moses or Job, and you had better mind what you're at.
"With Captain Ormiston's leave, I think we'd better go back to the point we started from and drink the little gentleman's health. I have my patient to see again, and it is getting rather late." The lady addressed, laughed, held up her glass, and stared round the table with a fine air of bravado, looking remarkably pretty. "Fire away, Roger, dear fellow," she said. "We're loaded, and ready."
And so it came about that when Lady Calmady's child was born, towards the end of the following March, no more staid and responsible woman creature of her family was at hand to support her than that lively, young lady, her brother, William Ormiston's wife. Meanwhile, the parish of Sandyfield rejoiced.
For it is harsh discipline even to a noble woman, whose life is still strong in her, to stand by and see another woman but a few years her junior entering on those joys which she has lost, marriage, probably motherhood as well. Roger Ormiston's and Mary Cathcart's love-making was restrained and dignified.
The town would not be committed beyond the circle of young Ormiston's intimate friends, which was naturally small if you compared it with the public; the town wasn't going to be surprised at anything that might be proved.
All the foundations of faith and reverence were, for the time being, shaken to the very base. She gathered the naked baby up against her bosom, rocking herself to and fro in a paroxysm of rebellious grief. "God is unjust!" she cried aloud. "He takes pleasure in fooling us. God is unjust!" Ormiston's first sensation on reentering his sister's room was one of very sensible relief.
Then he unlocked his safe and took out Ethel Ormiston's letters. They made no great heap; for of late their correspondence had dwindled to an annual exchange of good wishes at Christmas. She was still earning her livelihood as a governess. Bob thought for a week, and then wrote. He asked Ethel Ormiston to come out and be his wife. You will observe that the old curse still lay on him.
Knott's gray eyes, as he sipped his port, still more the tone of Roger Ormiston's laugh, she did understand somehow. And this last jarred upon her cruelly. It opened the flood-gates of doubt which Mary like so many another woman in respect of the man she loves had striven very valiantly to keep shut.
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