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It is all so wonderful, that my boy should do this because of what he believes to be call of God. "By the way," the letter continued, "I suppose you have heard nothing of Nancy Tresize. I am told she is a nurse in a French hospital, but where, I haven't the slightest idea.
"He's had beastly luck at the last two holes," grumbled Dick Tresize, who was evidently deeply chagrined. The next hole was halved in bogey. Bob got his four easily, but Trevanion only halved his by a long and uncertain putt. "Five up at the sixth," shouted the Admiral. "Come, Bob, that's better, you've halved a hole at last."
The thought of it disturbed his sleep for weeks. In the end he decided to make a clean breast to Mr Rattenbury, as between man and man; and encountering him one afternoon on the Lealand road, drew up old Dapple and made sign that he wished to speak. It's about Mrs Tresize he began. 'You've heard, then? said Mr Rattenbury. 'Heard what? 'Why, that I'm going to marry her.
There he all but ran into Mrs Tresize, who came downstairs, lamp in hand and fully dressed as before. As before, too, she was entirely composed in manner. 'I will open, she said. 'Go back and put the other gun away quickly, the pistol too. Keep the one in your hand if you will, and come back to me while I pretend to draw the bolts. No, please don't argue. It will be all right if you do as I say.
It happened at that moment that the girls had gone into the house, and had not heard the conversation, but the half-dozen young men who were there looked at Bob as though he were a kind of reptile. "I say, Bob," said Dick Tresize, who had been always his close friend, "you can't mean it! You are joking. Have have you read the papers? Have you read what led up to our being in it?
Doctor Unonius could not overlook a falsehood, and from that hour his thoughts never rested upon the widow Tresize as a desirable woman to wed. But he had grave searchings of conscience on the part he had been made to play. Undoubtedly he had misled Mr Rattenbury, and all question of public honesty apart had perhaps injured that young officer's chances of promotion.
The young ladies, if we make reasonable allowance for an occasional natural preoccupation induced by their consciousness of the proximity of the young men, were devoted students of the gospel a interpreted by Brother Tresize, and sufficiently saintly always, presuming that no disturbing element such as a new hat or an unfamiliar dress was introduced to awaken the critical spirit.
They were so brutal, so arrogant, that we could not see how any self-respecting people could accept them. Still, we reflected that Servia who had only lately been much weakened and impoverished by her war with Turkey, might be humble. On the morning of July 25, Admiral Tresize received a letter from a friend who lived in Vienna, which caused him to be greatly perturbed.
"The same grand procession," giggled a girl who was a great admirer of Trevanion. "I say, Bob, I thought you were going to give Trevanion a game," said George Tresize, Nancy's younger brother. Captain Trevanion laughed confidently. He felt certain of victory now, and regarded the match as a walk over. "Five down is a big handicap," said Bob. "Still the match is young yet."
'Tryphena understands horses, said Mrs Tresize. 'Come indoors, please, and tell me all about it. Doctor Unonius lifted out the incriminating bag and followed her along the passage. She paused at the door of the best kitchen and pushed it wide. He looked in upon a bare but not uncheerful room, where a clean wood fire blazed on an open hearth and over the fire a kettle sang cosily.
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