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I heard Miss Plinlimmon asking: "Would you care to see him that is, dear, if you feel strong enough? His expression is wonderfully tranquil." She led me upstairs and opened the door for me.
She usually kissed me at night, after my prayers were said: but somehow this was different, and it fetched tears to my eyes greatly to my surprise, for we were not given to tears at the Genevan Hospital. "Plinlimmon is a mountain in Wales, and that, I dare say, is what makes me so romantic. Now, you are not romantic in the least: and, besides, it wouldn't do. No, indeed.
I had not the slightest notion of the price of eatables; but I, too, turned on the shopwoman with a bold face, albeit with a fluttering heart. "How much?" I demanded. "One-and-ninepence, sir." I know not which made me the happier relief, or the glory of being addressed as "sir." I paid, pocketed my threepence change, and in the elation of it offered Miss Plinlimmon my arm.
This was more than I could tell him. And you may be sure that the name Leicester made me want to ask questions, not to answer them. But just now Isabel came across the lawn, bearing a tray with a plateful of biscuits, a decanter of claret, and a glass. "My dear," asked her father, "has our friend Archibald ever spoken to you of an aunt of his a Miss Plinlimmon residing at Plymouth Dock?"
Since then she had married a young officer in the 52nd Regiment, a Lieutenant Archibald Plinlimmon; but, her husband having to depart at once for the Peninsula, she had remained with her father and tended him as before, until death took her as it had taken her mother in childbirth.
Miss Plinlimmon smiled at me and blushed faintly as she uttered the name. "Harry, shake hands with Mr. Trapp. He has come expressly to make your acquaintance." Somehow I gathered that this politeness took Mr. Trapp aback; but he held out his hand. It was astonishingly black. "Pray be seated, Mr. Trapp." "The furniture, ma'am!" "Ah, to be sure!" Mr.
The succession of mountain ranges, precipitous and rugged, which extend from the shores of the Irish Sea to the boundaries of England, rising tier above tier, and culminating, at different points, in the heights of Snowdon, Cader Idris, and Plinlimmon, gives to wild Wales that romantic beauty for which it is so justly celebrated.
He wore a red coat, a high japanned hat, and clean white pantaloons with black gaiters: and I took it for granted that he was always the same soldier. Yet I had plenty of opportunities for observing him, for Miss Plinlimmon made it a rule that I should stand at the window and continue to gaze out of it while she dressed. One day she paused in the act of plaiting her hair.
Rogers helped Leicester to stand and slackened the bond about his ankles. "We'll tighten it again in the next room, my friend. Stay a moment, Rector!" He pointed to the wardrobe. The Rector went to it and unhitching a clean surplice laid it across his arm. So we filed into the room where Isabel and Archibald Plinlimmon awaited us.
A voice spoke to her from the moonlit terrace below. "Hallo!" she answered. "Is that Captain Branscome?" "It is, ma'am: and Miss Plinlimmon Amelia as she allows me to call her." Miss Belcher cut him short with a laugh. It rang out frank and free enough, and only I, crouching by the wall, understood the hysterical springs of it. "You two geese!" she exclaimed, and ran down the steps to them.
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