‘They eloped. "I must have dropped it when I took
out my note-book. “Were you ever in love, aunt?” she asked. ‘Well, young man,’ he
said, ‘we haven’t seen you lately,’ and something about ‘Bateson & Co. She was afraid people would follow
her, she was afraid of the dark, open doorways she passed, and afraid of the
blazes of light; she was afraid to be alone, and she knew not what it was she
feared. Oh! Christ! de door's shut! It musht have schwung to during de schuffle!"
"Shut!" exclaimed Wild. Her dress, it has just been said, was neatness and
simplicity itself. After a brief conversation, which Sheppard
sustained with his accustomed liveliness, the old man turned to Bess and
addressed a few words of common-place gallantry to her. I never intended it
to be anything but a short story, for I had never
completed even the shortest of stories unless forced
to in grammar school. ‘It had better not be, by God,’ had barked Captain Hilary Roding. Upon what this instinct was based she could not say; she was
conscious only of its insistence. "
"A friend is not so soon gained as lost," replied Wood; "but how has the
prediction been fulfilled, Joan, eh?"
"I thought you would have guessed, Sir," replied the widow, timidly. General Lord Charvill disinherited him for his pains.
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