”
“That is provokingly indefinite,” he answered, a little ruefully. ’
‘Don’t be stuffy, Hilary,’ admonished his betrothed. “She can’t go now. ”
“You must admit,” he declared, “that to us—who had seen you—the thought of
your trying anything else was amazing. It does not matter to him either way. Do you indeed
remember? The smell of decay and cheap methylated spirit!. Oh, cuss it!”
“Eh?”
“He said I would. ‘This is
not a place for a man. "He said, by way of comfort, I suppose, after the fright he gave me at first, that
the child would find a friend within twenty-four hours, who would stand by him
through life. "Mr. None this end. Here he was preparing to leap over
the hedge into the fields on the left, when he was intercepted by two horsemen,
who, hearing the shouts, rode up and struck at him with the butt-ends of their
heavy riding-whips. A native of
Manchester, he was the son of Kenelm Kneebone, a staunch Catholic, and a
sergeant of dragoons, who lost his legs and his life while fighting for James the
Second at the battle of the Boyne, and who had little to bequeath his son except
his laurels and his loyalty to the house of Stuart.
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