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Updated: May 4, 2025
Neither Kitty nor Florence said a word until the pair the good-looking, well-set-up young man and the girl in her pretty summer dress disappeared from view. Then Florence turned to Kitty. "It is?" said Florence. Kitty nodded. "Who would have believed it?" continued Florence. She started up in her excitement. "I do not think I can quite stand this," she said.
"Good heavens! Dudley!" exclaimed the gaunt and haggard prisoner. It was Wilmshurst's turn to be dumfounded. He stepped back a pace and looked the rescued man Intently in the face. Was it possible that this human wreck was his once well-set-up and powerfully-built brother? "Rupert!" he exclaimed dubiously. "That's me," rejoined the other. "Rather, what's left of me."
"Two young gentlemen to see you, Miss Bobby and Miss Betty," announced the maid importantly. "They is waiting in the parlor. Mrs. Eustice says you all should go right up." In the parlor the girls found two slim, uniformed young figures who rose like well-set-up ramrods at their entrance. "Bob!" ejaculated Betty, her voice betraying her pleasure. "Bob, you look splendid!"
Her eyes still measured him, his bold, obvious good looks, his ruddy self-complacency, his habitual and shallow geniality, the satisfied vanity of a mouth steadily becoming looser; the depiction of years of self-indulgence in the little veins on his highly colored cheeks; the sagging lines of his well-set-up figure, ever taking on more flesh.
Now a well-set-up young fellow like you would get on capitally at soldiering. It's a great life. When we get the Germans whipped every man will be proud to say he had a hand in it. If a man struck you you wouldn't stand back and let some other fellow do your fighting for you, now would you?
He had been hospitably enough received, for the country-side had not forgotten the story of the Greenwood Keep, and it was plain to see that this clear-eyed, well-set-up lad was of the true Stockader breed. One of his father's bond-friends, Piers Major, of the River Barony, had even offered Constans a home under his roof-tree in exchange for sword-service.
One day in January the same vehicle that had driven Selwyn to Roselawn deposited another visitor there. He was a sturdy, well-set-up fellow, but a thinness and a certain pallor in the cheeks conflicted with their natural weather-beaten texture. The morose driver helped him to alight, and handed him his crutches, which he took with a snort of disapproval.
When sent to the bank, a few yards distant, he was absent for an hour. Cigarettes and late hours may have given him a touch of pastiness. To-day, what a change! Tall, well-set-up and bronzed, he is a model of health and strength.
Evidently the bombardment of Béthune has not yet done much damage. A squad of artillerymen marched by in perfect step; their faces were keen, bronzed. They were fine-looking, well-set-up men, as smart as English artillerymen always are. I watched them as long as I could see them. We had lost our way, owing to the regulations of the traffic squad. It was necessary to stop and inquire.
A large, well-set-up boy of 16, A., became my idol. His toleration of my presence in his room filled me with endless love. When I lied about a matter in which he was concerned, his denunciation of me brought me to a state of shuddering and weeping unspeakable.
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