"
"I feel it," replied Jack, in a tone of agony, "and I feel it more on my poor
mother's account than my own. She went about, intentlooking and self-possessed, trim and fine, concealing her emotions whatever
they were, as the realities of her position opened out before her. Before she put on her sun-helmet, she paused
before the mirror. Seconded by his strength
and temper, his skill rendered him invincible and he is reputed never to have lost
a battle. “Do you hear!” she said “whatever you are,
wherever you are! I will not be slave to the thought of any man, slave to the
customs of any time. But, when the sound of the carriage-wheels died away, and he
felt that she was actually gone, his resolution failed him, and he rang the bell
violently. After debating with himself whether he should further seek an interview, which,
though, now in his power, was so sedulously shunned by the other party, he
decided in the negative; and contenting himself with writing upon a slip of paper
the hasty words,—"You are known by the villagers,—be upon your guard,"—he
gave it to the ostler, with instructions to deliver it instantly to the owner of the
horse he pointed out, and pursued his course. If she mentioned Ramage he might have a fit—anything
might happen. Her thought spoke aloud. She let her mind run into dreams of that cloud paradise of an altered world in
which the Goopes and Minivers, the Fabians and reforming people believed. ”
“It was an inspiration—your speaking to him?”
“I felt impudent. ”
“I grant you absolution. .
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