"How long will he be laid up?"
"Three or four weeks, if he doesn't peg out during the night. ‘Lord,’ he uttered, glancing about with a disparaging eye. “We don’t want things to happen!” Never had he shown his daughter so clearly
that the womenkind he was persuaded he had to protect and control could please
him in one way, and in one way only, and that was by doing nothing except the
punctual domestic duties and being nothing except restful appearances. He did not know what her game was, although he had a shrewd suspicion that
she had been co-opted into it by her supposed husband, the soi-disant Valade. To the poor carpenter it seemed an endless distance. It was quite an unexpected pleasure
to meet you and your worthy father. Sheila was a stout woman, her bosoms huge, her face
110
wide and square. Didn’t I say that this whole
business of your camping in Remenham House was the one aspect I could not
puzzle out?’
‘You are very clever, monsieur Gérard,’ she conceded, although Gerald was
amused by the grudging note, ‘but in truth it is not yet my house. He thought rationally; that is to say, he thought clearly, as a
child thinks clearly. "
"I've no intention of stirring," replied the woollen-draper, who was thus
unceremoniously disturbed: "and I beg you'll sit down, Mr. ‘Oh, I do love a flatterer. ‘But the major—’
‘The major can say nothing at all. "I did see them on the platform of the bridge—the child and
his preserver! They were not struck by the fallen ruin, nor whelmed in the
roaring flood,—or, if they were, they escaped as I escaped. We have him as safe as a linnet in a cage; and could wring
his neck round as easily.
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