‘Aye, miss, like a shadow. “And where,” he asked, “are my rivals?”
“Deserters,” she answered, laughing. ’
‘You always were an old sobersides, even as a boy,’ retorted the major, who
was close on thirty now, yet as ripe for excitement as he had been on receiving
his first commission at sixteen. Too late, alas, to stop the disastrous marriage. You seem altogether altered, too. "
"That's right," replied Wild, with a ghastly smile. Shame
and electricity coursed through her veins, flowing directly
from him in a flash flood. She was an indignant queen, no doubt she was
alarmed and disgusted within limits; but she was highly excited, and there was
something, some low adventurous strain in her being, some element, subtle at
least if base, going about the rioting ways and crowded insurgent meeting-places
of her mind declaring that the whole affair was after all—they are the only words
that express it—a very great lark indeed. ’
‘So did your business about marrying an Englishman seem to me,’ Gerald
returned. \" Lucy fought to resist the compulsion to
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