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All these things focussed themselves upon his brain in the moment before the whistle went; the whistle blew, the Dublin men had kicked off, Tester had fielded the ball, sent it back into touch, and the game had begun. This was to be the game of his life and yet he could not centre his attention upon it.
"It's awkward for me to say. One doesn't want to dot one's i's to that extent." "She would be delighted to marry you. That's not such a mystery." "Well, she likes me awfully," Mr. Tester said, looking like a handsome child. "It's not all on one side; it's on both. That's the difficulty." "You mean she won't let you go? she holds you fast?"
She is quite rational except that she has entirely forgotten the last twenty years, and just before falling asleep she laughed heartily over some old stories of Grandpa Bolivar's." "Then I may see her for a minute?" "If you wish it yes." Passing along the hall, he entered the little chamber where the old lady lay asleep in her tester bed.
They had only just time to go through the ceremony of breaking a tester between them before a shrill call of "Emlyn" resounded down the garden. Mrs. Sloggett thought quite time enough had been wasted over the young man, and summoned the girl back to her sewing. Emlyn made a face of disgust, very comical and very joyous, but as the good dame was actually coming in search of her no more could pass.
"Last summer I toted a bucket o' blackberries down to Three Oaks an' sold them to Mrs. Cleave. An' she was making a valance for her tester bed, an' I thought the stuff was mighty pretty, an' she gave me a big piece! an' I put it away in my picture box with my glass beads. For the ribbon I'd saved a little o' my berry money, an' I walked to Buchanan an' bought it." She drew a long breath. "My land!
Tester she would suffer accordingly; but I did n't think that a reason for not giving him up. Before I left her she said to me that nothing would induce her to do anything that she did n't think right. "It would be no pleasure to me, don't you see? I should be always thinking that another way would have been better. Nothing would induce me, nothing, nothing!"
"I went to the lodge early this morning, and Tester told me that she got up early, and took a bit of bread in her pocket; but she would not even wait for a cup of tea. Tester said she was out of the house by six o'clock. She washed herself well first, though, and Mrs. Tester said that she came out of her bath as fair as a lily, and her hair shining like red gold.
I say Isaacs is the most likely man. What do you think?" Tester looked round carefully, and then began anxiously: "Look here, you men; swear you won't tell a soul if we tell you something." The oath was taken. "Well, it's us!" There was a hush. "Good Gawd!" said Hunter. Silence ensued; but curiosity soon overcame surprise. "What did you say, by the by?" asked Gordon.
Old Tester thought his mistress foolishly particular on this point, and wondered at so close a lady going to the expense of new locks, which were sent down from London, and were particularly good and expensive. The small gate was furnished with a latch-lock as well. This arrangement was made for Tester's convenience, so that if Mrs.
Did she wish to be protected against herself, applauded for such efforts as she had already made? I didn't rush forward, I was not precipitate, for I felt that now, surely, I should be able at my convenience to execute my commission. What concerned me was not to prevent Lady Vandeleur's marrying Mr. Tester, but to prevent Mr. Tester's marrying her.
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