Peg Woffington: Christie Johnstone, And Other Stories
Peg Woffington: Christie Johnstone, And Other Stories
Reade Charles
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" What do you mean 1 " " You take very little notice of what passes, John." " What do you mean ? " " Did n't you see what Robert tried for when the wagon started witii them?" " O, about his fainting ! I could have kicked the silly fool if I had n't been his fathOT." "Don't you think it is veiy odd ho should faint like that, — just under the wheel of a wagon 1 " " O, when a chap swoons awar, he can't choose the bed he faUs on." " A moment more, the wheel would have been on his head; if Thomas Di...gitized by Google CLOUDS AND SUNSHINE. 225 hadn't been li|;htsome and stopped the horses all in a minute, Robert Hathom would have been a corpse in this house." "Well!" "WeU!" The old man lowered his roice: " You had better tell me you think he didit on purpose!" Mrs. Hathom leaned over the table to him. " I don't think it, John ; I am sure of it. Robert never fainted at all ; he was as white as his shirt, but he knew what he was about, from first to last. He chose his time ; and when Rachael turned her bead from him, he just said, * Very well then/ and flung him- self under the wheel.
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