”
“Thank you,” Anna answered. But it is the truth. Curses
light on the horse!" he added, seizing the bridle of his steed, who continued
snorting and shivering, as if still under the influence of some unaccountable
alarm; "what can ail him?"
"I know what ails him, your honour," rejoined the groom, riding up as he spoke;
"he's seen somethin' not o' this world. The shouts of indignation—the frightful yells now raised baffle description. . What do you think people will make of that? What will this
lover of yours make of that?”
At intervals Ann Veronica demanded to go, declaring her undying resolve to
repay him at any cost, and made short movements doorward. Impassive by nature and training, he was
conscious to-night of a strange sense of excitement, of exhilaration tempered by
a dull background of disappointment. Except for a few early ebullitions of passion, natural to a
warm and romantic disposition, and leaving no harmful after-effects—ebullitions
that by the standards of the higher truth I feel no one can justly cast a stone at,
and of which I for one am by no means ashamed—I come to you a pure and
unencumbered man. "Yes, now," rejoined the infuriated dame; "perhaps, I may never have another
opportunity. “I am frightened now. The smile had become
a laugh. Wood's daughter,—to
whom, I've heard tell, he was attached years ago,—was brought up, his courage
forsook him altogether, and he trembled, and could scarcely stand.
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