[Two Years Ago, Volume II. by Charles Kingsley]@TWC D-Link bookTwo Years Ago, Volume II. CHAPTER XXII 15/16
Neither she nor Miss Valencia have been to bed.
He'll kill her at last, the brute!" "It's no concern of either of us, that.
Have ye got another trunk to bring down ?" "No concern? Just like your hard-heartedness, Mr.Bowie.And as soon as I'm gone, of course you will be flirting with these impudent Welshwomen, in their horrid hats." "Maybe, yes; maybe, no.
But flirting's no marrying, Mrs.Clara." "True for you, sir! Men were deceivers ever," quoth Clara, and flounced up stairs; while Bowie looked after her with a grim smile, and caught her, when she came down again, long enough to give her a great kiss; the only language which he used in wooing, and that but rarely. "Dinna fash, lassie.
Mind your lady and the poor bairns like a godly handmaiden, and I'll buy the ring when the sawmon fishing's over, and we'll just be married ere I start for the Crimee" "The sawmon!" cried Clara.
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