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At this very moment, who should come into the end of the passage upon them but the heavy writer of these doings I, John Ridd myself, and walking the faster, it may be, on account of the noise I mentioned. I entered the house with some wrath upon me at seeing the gazehounds in the yard; for it seems a cruel thing to me to harass the birds in the breeding-time.
A moment later he had swung her down as easily as though she were a child, and she was standing beside him. She laughed up at him. "Oh, 'girt Jan Ridd'!" she exclaimed softly. He laughed back, well pleased. "You're as light as a feather! I could carry you all day and " "Not know it!" concluded Magda gaily. His hands fell away from her slim body abruptly.
At this my own countenance fell, I suppose, for the better she was born, the harder she would be to marry and mistaking my object, he took me up: "Perhaps you think, Master Ridd, that because her ladyship, Lady Lorna Dugal, is of Scottish origin, therefore her birth is not as high as of our English nobility. If you think so you are wrong, sir.
'Bravo, our John Ridd! he answered; 'fools will be fools till the end of the chapter; and I might be as big a one, if I were in thy shoes, John. Nevertheless, in the name of God, don't let that helpless child go about with a thing worth half the county on her.
'Oh, if that is all, just fetch the stool; and I will do my best, cousin. 'I pray you be not so vexatious; you always used to do it nicely, without any stool, Ruth. 'Ah, but you are grown since then, and become a famous man, John Ridd, and a member of the nobility. Go your way, and win your spurs. I want no lip-service. Being at the end of my wits, I did even as she ordered me.
'John I love you very much; and I would not grieve you. You are the bravest, and the kindest, and the simplest of all men I mean of all people I like you very much, Master Ridd, and I think of you almost every day. 'That will not do for me, Lorna. Not almost every day I think, but every instant of my life, of you.
'You may well be ashamed, young man, he cried, with some triumph over me, 'you are the biggest of all fools, as well as a conceited coxcomb. What can you want more than Ruth? She is a little damsel, truly; but finer men than you, John Ridd, with all your boasted strength and wrestling, have wedded smaller maidens.
Indeed I was half afraid to hear it, remembering that the nobler and the wealthier she proved to be, the smaller was my chance of winning such a wife for plain John Ridd. Not that she would give me up: that I never dreamed of. But that others would interfere; or indeed I myself might find it only honest to relinquish her. That last thought was a dreadful blow, and took my breath away from me.
Blackmore's passage in Lorna Doone, describing the superlative ease and speed of Tom Faggus's mare, when John Ridd as a boy was allowed to ride her after a rough experience at the beginning of the venture is, though printed as prose, perhaps better poetry than most similar efforts.
"Take coward's blow, Jack Ridd, then," cried half a dozen little boys, shoving Bob Snell forward to do it; because they all knew well enough, having striven with me ere now, and proved me to be their master they knew, I say, that without great change, I would never accept that contumely.
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