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"He is not," he said. "At his prayers, is he? Well, he'll need them." "He is not, to my knowledge," Asgill replied. "But he is ill." Payton's face lightened with a joy not pleasant to see. "A coward!" he said coolly. "I am not surprised! Ill is he? Ay, I know that illness. It's not the first time I've met it." Asgill had no wish to precipitate a quarrel.
The next moment he came to attention, for slowly past the window moved Captain Payton himself, riding Flavia's mare, and talking with one of the young bloods who walked at his stirrup. The man and the horse! The Colonel began to understand that something more than wantonness had inspired Payton's conduct the previous night.
And so comparing, she could not but find in the one a nobility, in the other a a dreadfulness. For, looking back, and having Payton's words and manner fresh in her mind, she had to own that, in all his treatment of her, Colonel Sullivan, while opposing and thwarting her, had still, and always, respected her.
"Sword or pistols, before breakfast or after dinner, drunk or sober, Jack Payton's your man. D n me, it shall never be said in my time that the th suffered a crop-eared Irishman to preach to them in their own mess-room! You can send your friend to me when you please. He'll find me!" The Colonel was wiping the wine from his chin and neckcloth.
It was natural that Payton's words should direct her thoughts more closely and more intimately to the man outside whose door he had found her; nor less natural that she should institute a comparison between the two, should picture the manner of the one and the manner of the other, should consider how the one had treated her in an abnormal crisis, when he had held her struggling in his arms, when in her despair she had beaten his face with her hands, when, after her attempt on his life, he had subdued her by sheer force; and how the other had treated her in the few hours he had known her!
By this time the rank and file of the spectators had been reinforced by the arrival of Marsh; who, discovering a scene so unexpected, and quickly perceiving that Lemoine was doing his utmost, wondered what Payton's thoughts were.
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