For the first time Marianne clearly perceived this.

Oliver Jordan was wasting for grief over his lost freedom just as some youthful lover might decline because of the death of his mistress.

The shock of this perception brought Marianne to a halt.

When she looked up Shorty and Red Perris were not a hundred yards away, swinging along at a steady lope! All sad thoughts were whisked from her mind as a gust whirls dead leaves away and shows the green grass beneath, newly growing.

How it lifted her heart to see him.