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The Princess held it, and at Nat's head and feet stood Marc'antonio and Stephanu, in the act of lifting his litter. She motioned that I should stand up and follow. Marc'antonio and Stephanu fell into file behind us. Each carried a gun in a sling. "I will hold the light where the path is difficult," she said quietly; "but keep a watch upon your feet.
She did not speak at once, going over to warm her gloveless hands at the stove, and staring up at the Grampaw Peel plate; then: "When it comes my Nat's medal it's goin' to set right up here, 'stead o' this old thing an' the letters and the sermons in my shell box I got on my weddin' trip.... Lawyer Ritchie told me to-day what it means, the name o' that medal Cross o' War!
Duncan removed one hand from the pocket the better to tug at his moustache. "It's got beyond that to the point where I have to keep dodging her." "You don't mean it! That's splendid." Kellogg got up and slapped Nat's shoulder heartily. "But don't overdo the dodging. She might get her back up." "Not she. She'd eat out of my hand, if I'd let her. You don't understand." "What's the matter, then?
Things seemed to change suddenly; she felt that her heart was large enough for both love and duty; she knew now that she would be welcomed by mother and sister; and the memory of Daisy's less happy fate, Nat's weary probation, the long delay, and possible separation for ever all came before her so vividly that prudence seemed cruelty; self-sacrifice, sentimental folly; and anything but the whole truth, disloyalty to her lover.
Everything was settled by that tearful and tender embrace, for, though Mrs Meg speedily detached her daughter, it was only to take her place; while Demi shook Nat's hand with brotherly warmth, and Josie danced round them like Macbeth's three witches in one, chanting in her most tragic tones: 'Chirper thou wast; second violin thou art; first thou shalt be. Hail, all hail!
"My brave-hearted fellow!" said Sir Godfrey, faintly; and he set his teeth hard to keep back a moan of pain. "Now, then," said Samson, "what sort of a way is it?" "Just like that we came," said Fred, quickly as he drew Nat's arm over his shoulder. "Then I don't want no leading," said Samson; "some one go first, and I can feel my way with my ears." "Go first, Scar," whispered Fred.
To this plan Eugenia did not particularly object, for it would indicate wealth, she thought, for the whole family to spend the summer at a watering place. Still it would cost a great deal, and though Uncle Nat's remittance came at the usual time, they did not dare to depend wholly upon that, lest on their return there should be nothing left with which to buy their bread.
"There never was nothin' like it heard of round here, Maw.... If folks could only know " She lifted her head as at a challenge. "Why, they're goin' to know, Luke for I'm goin' to tell 'em. Folks that have talked behind Nat's back folks that have pitied us when they see this like a King o' France!" she repeated softly. "I'm goin' down to town to-day, Luke."
But I must be quick, or I lose him, for if after Uncle Nat's arrival our real situation should chance to be disclosed, Steve would not hesitate to leave me. 'So to-morrow or never a bride I shall be," she sang with a gaiety of manner wholly at variance with the worn, suffering expression of her countenance.
He wrote of the preliminary duties in Paris, the preparations of Nat's final going to join one of the three sections working round Verdun. It wasn't easy work that waited for Nat there. It was a stiff contract guiding the little ambulance over the shell-rutted roads, with deftness and precision, to those distant dressing stations where the hurt soldiers waited for him.
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