But the letter, written in his son’s own hand, and
addressed to the Mother Abbess of the Convent of the Sisters of Wisdom near
Blaye in the district of Santonge, dated a little over five years previously,
exercised a powerful effect upon him. She moved then, fast, taking refuge
behind a Chinese screen that was set beside the four-poster at the back of the
room. The
wish was vain: and, endeavouring to banish every earthly thought, he addressed
himself deeply and sincerely to prayer. Was
the young lady impatient for experience? Was she adventurous? As a man of the
world he did not think it becoming to accept maidenly calm as anything more
than a mask. She hissed
in a breath and his eyes met hers. ’
‘But I can’t leave you, miss. “A young man comes into life asking how best he may place himself,”
Ramage had said; “a woman comes into life thinking instinctively how best she
may give herself. "Don't you hear those shouts? Yon fellow's clamour has
brought the whole horde of jail-birds and cut-throats that infest this place about
our ears. She would not forgive me. But I can give it its name now. You have friends, acquaintances, social standing,
brothers and sisters, every advantage! Instead of which, you want to go to some
mixed classes or other and cut up rabbits and dance about at nights in wild
costumes with casual art student friends and God knows who. "Yes, my angel, to her—rest her soul! She extorted it from me, and bound me by
a solemn oath to fulfil it. Emerging from this aperture, he was about to
descend, when he was alarmed by hearing the tramp of horses' feet swiftly
approaching, and had only time to hide himself behind one of the largest signboards before alluded to when two horsemen rode up.
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