In addition to his customary arms, Jonathan carried a bludgeon with a large heavy knob, suspended from his wrist by a loop; a favourite weapon, which he always took with him on dangerous expeditions, and which, if any information had been requisite, would have told Sheppard that the present was one of them. Did the other girls thank you?” “Not really. He yielded his place and struck instead with his tongue. I'm sure he'll do his best to content you. But heavens, I must pack!” She sprang to her feet and disappeared in the room beyond, from which she emerged a few minutes later with flushed cheeks and dishevelled hair. She had, poor inexperienced fool, given herself away. “Well anyhow—I don’t see the force of your objection, you know. Easy enough to look as if one rides away. A little smothered cry broke from her lips—the curtains were thrown aside and a man stepped out. Soot was everywhere, for the lamp would not stay trimmed in the gale. Why should she trouble herself over that young fool, who was nothing to her; who, when he eventually sobered up, would not be able to recognize her, or if he did, as something phantasmagorical? Perhaps he should not apply the term "fool"; "unfortunate" might be the more accurate application. “My dear Anna,” he answered. Young, not much older than she was: she was twenty and he was possibly twenty-four. Womanhood is sacred to me.
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