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"The more so, in that it must be so difficult for you to love a person in fourteen days! Ah! that is kind, indeed." A curious light comes into Sir Hastings' eyes. This little Australian girl, is she laughing at him? But the fact is that Perpetua is hardly thinking of him at all, or merely as a shadow to her thoughts. Who is he like? that is the burden of her inward song. At this moment she knows.
And, above all, because we have the enormous advantage of feeling it natural to be national, because there is nothing else to be. England in these days is not well governed; England is not well educated; England suffers from wealth and poverty that are not well distributed. But England is English; esto perpetua.
Need I say what follows? The professor, stung to the quick by those forlorn sobs, lifts his eyes, and behold! he sees Perpetua gathered to the ample bosom of the formidable, kindly Mulcahy. "Come wid me, me lamb," says that excellent woman. "Bad scran to the one that made yer purty heart sore. Lave her to me now, Misther Curzon, dear, an' I'll take a mother's care of her." Take courage now!
It is a problem difficult to solve. All the professor's learning fails him now. "I hope she will remember. Oh! she must," declares he, gazing at Perpetua. "You know I would do what I could for you, but your aunt you heard her she would not let you go anywhere with me." "True," says Perpetua.
Her mother had been especially fond of some of them, and was always pleased when she brought them home from her walks with the abbess or Sister Perpetua, the experienced old doctress of the convent. Many grew in the forest, others on the brink of the water. The beloved dead should not leave the house, whose guide and ornament she had been, without her favourite blossoms.
The professor had been standing inside the curtain for a full minute before Perpetua had seen him. Spell-bound he had stood there, gazing at the girl as if bewitched. Up to this he had seen her only in black black always severe, cold but now! It is to him as though he had seen her for the first time.
His wrathful eyes are on his brother rather than on her when he says: "You are tired?" "Yes," says Perpetua. "Shall I take you to Gwendoline?" "Yes," says Perpetua again. "Miss Wynter is in my care at present," says Sir Hastings, coming indolently forward. "Shall I take you to Lady Baring?" asks he, addressing Perpetua with a suave smile.
"I am not taking her away to I I am taking her to my sister, who will receive her as a guest." "Mad!" repeats Mrs. Mulcahy furiously. "Who's mad? Faix," preparing to leave the room, "'tis yerself was born widout a grain o' sinse!" The meeting between Lady Baring and Perpetua is eminently satisfactory.
The Syrian shook his head doubtfully and gave vent to a long-drawn whistle, and Perpetua clasped her hands exclaiming distressfully: "Did I not say so? She takes the fire lighted by shepherds at night to warm their hands for the rising sun the rattle of chariots for the thunders of the Almighty! Why, how many thousands have called themselves Paulus!
Belloc's humour is observation, a slow delicate savouring of human stupidity and pretence. The sporadic stories in his books are funny because, at least, we can believe them to be true. Read this from Esto Perpetua: An old man, small, bent, and full of energy opened the door to me.... "I was expecting you," he said. I remembered that the driver had promised to warn him, and I was grateful.
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