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Updated: September 28, 2025
'Indeed, I didn't know you were thought so bad of as that, said she simply. 'What! don't my uncle complain to you of me? You are a favourite of that handsome, nice old gaffer's, I know. 'Never. 'Well, what do we think of our nice trumpet-major, hey? Anne closed her mouth up tight, built it up, in fact, to show that no answer was coming to that question.
He saw Trumpet-major Loveday courting somebody like you in that garden walk; and when he came you ran indoors. 'It is not true, and I wish to hear no more. 'Upon my life, he said so! How can you do it, Miss Garland, when I, who have enough money to buy up all the Lovedays, would gladly come to terms with ye? What a simpleton you must be, to pass me over for him!
At sight of the trumpet-major the yeoman had glared triumphantly; Matilda, on her part, had winked at him slily, as much as to say . But what she meant heaven knows: the trumpet-major did not trouble himself to think, and passed on without returning the mark of confidence with which she had favoured him.
The green leaves in the garden became of a darker dye, the gooseberries ripened, and the three brooks were reduced to half their winter volume. At length the earnest trumpet-major obtained Mrs. Garland's consent to take her and her daughter to the camp, which they had not yet viewed from any closer point than their own windows. So one afternoon they went, the miller being one of the party.
Garland proposed that they should sing psalms which, by choosing lively tunes and not thinking of the words, would be almost as good as ballads. This they did, the trumpet-major appearing to join in with the rest; but as a matter of fact no sound came from his moving lips.
The trumpet-major, adhering to the part he meant to play, gave humorous accounts of his adventures since he had last sat there. He told them that the season was to be a very lively one that the royal family was coming, as usual, and many other interesting things; so that when he left them to return to barracks few would have supposed the British army to contain a lighter- hearted man.
'I have been thinking lately, he said, with preternaturally sudden calmness, 'that men of the military profession ought not to m ought to be like St. Paul, I mean. 'Fie, John; pretending religion! she said sternly. 'It isn't that at all. It's Bob! 'Yes! cried the miserable trumpet-major. 'I have had a letter from him to-day. He pulled out a sheet of paper from his breast. 'That's it!
She was standing before the looking-glass, apparently lost in thought, her fingers being clasped behind her head in abstraction, and the light falling full upon her face. 'I must speak to you, said the trumpet-major.
To justify the course he had adopted the dictates of duty must have been imperative; but the trumpet-major, with a becoming reticence which his brother at the time was naturally unable to appreciate, scarcely dwelt distinctly enough upon the compelling cause of his conduct.
'I am sorry for this, said the miller, not expressing half his sorrow by the simple utterance. 'I wish you could have been here to-day, since this is the case, he added, looking at the horizon through the window. Mrs. Loveday also expressed her regret, which seemed to remind the trumpet-major of the event of the day, and he went to her and tried to say something befitting the occasion.
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