And, when I have seen him pining away
before my eyes, getting thinner and thinner every day, I have sometimes thought
my prayers were heard. But all that could be
ascertained in the village was, that a man had ridden off a short time before in
the direction of London. The occasion is worth a dash of the grape, lad. . Poor
girl! she was beautiful once; so beautiful as to make me, who care little for the
allurements of women, fancy myself enamoured of her. The odds were astounding and
yet he had it bad. ”
When the next holidays came Ann Veronica’s mother was ill, and Gwen was
in the sick-room when Ann Veronica returned home. Unless—would he hide from them as he had hidden from her? It was a big
house, he said. She was
dressed in a simple evening gown of soft creamy silk, with a yoke of dark old
embroidery that enhanced the gentle gravity of her style, and her black hair
flowed off her open forehead to pass under the control of a simple ribbon of
silver. ‘Poor Hilary. ‘It did not seem to me that it
was so. ”
Their agreement so far seemed remarkable, and yet as a home-coming the
thing was a little lacking in warmth. It
had thrust her back with an undignified scuffle, with vulgar comedy, with an
unendurable, scornful grin. “Don’t you have a wife? Where are your children?”
She asked. The carpenter did not
hesitate a moment.
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