‘One
of your countrymen, perhaps?’
The girl clammed up, the moon of her white face staring up at him in the
darkness. "I haven't offended you?"—not contritely but curiously. If
you had lived twenty years ago you would have been called a Young Person, and
it would have been your chief duty in life not to know, never to have heard of,
and never to understand. "
"Ah, yes; that's all very well. "
"And you whipped the beast? I passed him. Here was the place behind the shed
where she had used to hide from Roddy’s persecutions, and here the border of
herbaceous perennials under whose stems was fairyland. On beholding the intruders, his fears
changed to exultation, and he uttered a roar of satisfaction as he glared at them,
which could only be likened to the cry of some savage denizen of the plains. Bird and have come hither. She exhaled, feeling the tension drain
from her shoulders and arms. Her eyes glistened in the darkness—for light was only
admitted through a small grated window—like flames, and, as she fixed them on
him, their glances seemed to penetrate his very soul. Spurlock—for that's his real name—were married at
high noon. “Let us walk round to Covent Garden,” he suggested.
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