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I I don't care for her much, you know not so very much, and can give her up very well. It is nothing serious between us at all. Yes, John, you try to get her; I can look elsewhere. Bob never knew how much he loved Anne till he found himself making this speech of renunciation. 'O Bob, you are mistaken! said the trumpet-major, who was not deceived.
Loveday said with diffidence that it had not rained anything to speak of at the camp, or at the mill, so that her mother was rather alarmed. 'And she asked you to come for me? Anne inquired. This was a question which the trumpet-major had been dreading during the whole of his walk thither. 'Well, she didn't exactly ask me, he said rather lamely, but still in a manner to show that Mrs.
The trumpet-major at last made up his mind, and tried to draw Anne into a private conversation. The feeling which a week ago had been a vague and piquant aspiration, was to-day altogether too lively for the reasoning of this warm-hearted soldier to regulate. So he persevered in his intention to catch her alone, and at last, in spite of her manoeuvres to the contrary, he succeeded.
'O yes, said the lady; and the two interesting forms of Trumpeter Buck and Saddler-sergeant Jones then came forward in the most friendly manner; whereupon other steps were heard without, and it was discovered that Sergeant-master-tailor Brett and Farrier-extraordinary Johnson were outside, having come to fetch Messrs. Buck and Jones, as Buck and Jones had come to fetch the trumpet-major.
Anne went back towards the pavement with her trumpet-major, whom all the girls envied her, so fine-looking a soldier was he; and not only for that, but because it was well known that he was not a soldier from necessity, but from patriotism, his father having repeatedly offered to set him up in business: his artistic taste in preferring a horse and uniform to a dirty, rumbling flour-mill was admired by all.
There is nothing you cannot have in London if you have got money to pay for it. If you were to go up to the Albany Barracks and get hold of the trumpet-major, he would tell you who would teach you. He would not do it himself, I daresay, but some of the trumpeters would be glad to give you an hour a day if you can pay for it.
'John, we've been hoping you would come down, said the miller, 'and so we have kept the tay about on purpose. Draw up, and speak to Mrs. Matilda Johnson. . . . Ma'am, this is Robert's brother. 'Your humble servant, ma'am, said the trumpet-major gallantly.
The trumpet-major replied civilly, though not without grimness, for he seemed hardly to like Derriman's motion towards Anne. 'Widow Garland's daughter! yes, 'tis! surely. You remember me? I have been here before. Festus Derriman, Yeomanry Cavalry. Anne gave a little curtsey. 'I know your name is Festus that's all.
On coming nearer Anne discovered this person to be Trumpet-major Loveday; and not wishing to meet anybody just now Anne passed quickly on, and entered the house by the garden door. 'My dear Anne, what a time you have been gone! said her mother. 'Yes, I have been round by another road. 'Why did you do that?
Festus looked from Anne to the trumpet-major, and from the trumpet-major back to Anne, with a dark expression of face, as if he suspected that there might be a tender understanding between them. 'Are you offended with me? he said to her in a low voice of repressed resentment. 'No, said Anne. 'When are you coming to the hall again? 'Never, perhaps. 'Nonsense, Anne, said Mrs.
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