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CHAPTER XXV.
SAID Lucy as she went from the door, "Thank Heaven, they have insulted
me!"
This does not sound logical, but that is only because the logic is so
subtle and swift. She meant something of this kind: "I am of a
yielding nature; I might have sacrificed myself to retain their
affection; but they have roused a vice of mine, my pride, against
them, so now I shall be immovable in right, thanks to my wicked pride.
Thank Heaven, they have insulted me!" She then laid her head upon her
bed and moaned, for she was stricken to the heart. Then she rose and
wrote a hasty note, and, putting it in her bosom, came downstairs and
looked for Captain Kenealy. He proved to be in the billiard-room,
playing the spotted ball against the plain one. "Oh, Captain Kenealy,
I am come to try your friendship; you said I might command you."
"Yaas!"
"Then _will_ you mount my pony, and ride with this to Mrs.
Wilson, to that farm where I kept you waiting so long, and you were
not angry as anyone else would have been?"
"Yaas!"
"But not a soul must see it, or know where you are gone."
"All raight, Miss Fountain. Don't you be fraightened; I'm close as the
grave, and I'll be there in less than haelf an hour."
"Yes; but don't hurt my dear pony either; don't beat him; and, above
all, don't come back without an answer."
"I'll bring you an answer in an hour and twenty minutes." The captain
looked at his watch, and went out with a smartness that contrasted
happily with his slowness of speech.
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