His age was not far from fifty. Bodies were piled high in the
streets, Sebastian went on rounds and would come back
late at night, reporting horrors and robberies, death that
came within hours, not days. None
presented themselves to save him from that return. Here was an experienced man of the
world, her friend, who evidently took a great interest in this supreme topic and
was willing to give her the benefit of his experiences! Why should not she be at
her ease with him? Why should not she know things? It is hard enough anyhow
for a human being to learn, she decided, but it is a dozen times more difficult
than it need be because of all this locking of the lips and thoughts. The leg and wing of a duck
were disposed of by this gentleman in a twinkling; a brace of pigeons and a
pound of steak followed with equal celerity; and he had just begun to make a
fierce assault upon the eggs and ham. ToC
In an incredibly short space of time,—for her anxiety lent wings to her feet,—
Mrs. “I knew
that you waited at the farmhouse. Oh, cuss it!”
“Eh?”
“He said I would. Only one thing emerged with
any reasonable clarity in her mind at once, and that was that unless she was
saved from drowning by an unmarried man, in which case the ceremony is
unavoidable, or totally destitute of under-clothing, and so driven to get a
trousseau, in which hardship a trousseau would certainly be “ripping,” marriage
was an experience to be strenuously evaded. "
"I will try to do so," replied the widow, forcing a smile.
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