Mere hangers on. But he was at last
persuaded that I mean you no harm, and that I might—just possibly, since I am
both a gentleman and a major of militia—be able to be of more assistance to you
than he himself. Seventeen hours, sixteen hours. Wood
dandled his little charge to and fro, after the most approved nursery fashion,
essaying at the same time the soothing influence of an infantine melody proper
to the occasion; but, failing in his design, he soon lost all patience, and being, as
we have before hinted, rather irritable, though extremely well-meaning, he lifted
the unhappy bantling in the air, and shook him with so much good will, that he
had well-nigh silenced him most effectually. You have set out to do
something which is neither God's way nor man's. "No," replied Wild; "and I've only listened to your absurd proposal to see how
far your insane attachment to this lad would carry you. "
"Would you be angry if I offered it to you?"
"Very. Do get your hat, and we will go to that
corner café. ’
Gerald unfolded his arms and threw his hands in the air. “The young women of Jane Austen’s time didn’t get into this sort of scrape!
At least—one thinks so.
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