The Bivouac Or Stories of the Peninsular War volume 3
The Bivouac Or Stories of the Peninsular War volume 3
W H William Hamilton Maxwell
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— Oh, no — impossible ! She was in all the bloom of youth, and health was painted on her rosy cheek, when I left her but a year ago. " " Ah I that year I suspect has done the mis- chief, sir. I fear, poor lady, health and happi- ness during that short period were lost. " " But when did she go ? — where to ? — with whom ? Speak — I am in torture !" " Her father — God pity him, poor old man ! — came for her about ten days ago. They set out by easy stages for his vicarage in a carriage, and the nu...rse and baby, with her trunks, went by the mail. A strange dark-complexioned woman, who visited her constantly when Captain Phillips was away — and latterly he was seldom here — travelled with her as a nurse-tender !" "A dark woman !" " Ay — dark as a gipsy ; but she was too hand- 184 ARRIVAL IN LONDON. some and well-dressed to be one. I suppose she was some foreigner. " " Was the lady long your lodger?" " Nearly six months. She came here a fort- night before her confinement.
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