Marriage!—and no woman by to tell the child what it was! The shocks and
disillusions she would have to meet unsuspectingly—and bitterly. "
Something in the child's voice, something in her manner, warned the spinster
that her well-meaning inquisitiveness had received a set-back and that it would
be dangerous to press it forward again. For a time
he would be the grim Protestant Flagellant, pursuing the idea of self-castigation. There he paused again, half turning his back and
pretending to look for someone among the soldiers on the benches. ‘She?’
‘Damnation!’ He saw her frown, and added at once, ‘I beg your pardon,
ma’am. “Nigel, don’t you understand. ‘What the devil
for? I’ll have one of the men ride the creature up tomorrow. But I’m
thinking as how I’d best report to the major over this here shooting. Don’t leave me in this beastly thing. Kneebone," she
added, with a glance at that gentleman, which was meant to speak daggers, "will
do as he pleases. She said”—Ann Veronica shivered again—“‘I hope
it won’t make you uncomfortable, my dear’—like that—‘and whatever you do,
do be careful of your hair!’ I think—I judge from her manner—that she thought
it was just a little indelicate of us—considering everything; but she tried to be
practical and sympathetic and live down to our standards.
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