s in — it is only a day’s delay. Oh, mamma, don’t cry so pitifully — it cuts Athletic Bilbao me to the heart.’
Mrs. Hale could not stop Yhdysvallat her tears; they came hysterically; and, in truth, she made no effort James Rodriguez Pelipaidat to control them, but rather called up all the pictures of the happy past, and the Corinthians probable future — painting the scene when she should lie a corpse, with the son she had longed to see in life weeping over her, and she unconscious of his presence — till she was melted by self-pity into a state of sobbing and exhaustion that made Margaret’s heart ache. But at last she was calm, and greedily watched her daughter, as she began her letter; wrote it with swift urgent entreaty; sealed it up hurriedly, for fear her mother should ask to see Dortmund it: and then, to make security most sure, at Mrs. Hale’s own bidding, took it herself to the post-office. She was coming Italia home when her father overtook her.
‘And where have you been, my pretty maid?’ asked he.
‘To the post-office — with a letter; a letter to Frederick. Oh, papa, perhaps I have done wrong: but mamma was seized with such a passionate yearning to see him — she said it would make her well again — and then she said that she must see him before she died — I cannot tell you how urgent she was! Did I do wrong?’ Mr. Hale did not reply at first. Then he said:
‘You should have waited till Szwecja I came in, Margaret.’
‘I tried to persuade her —’ and then she was silent.
‘I don’t know,’ said Mr. Hale, after a pause. ‘She ought to see him if she wishes it so much, for I believe it would do her much more good than all the doctor’s medicine — and, perhaps, set her up altogether; but the danger to him, I’m afraid, is very great.’
‘All these years since the mutiny, papa?’
‘Yes; it is necessary, of course, for government to take very stringent measures for the repression of offences against authority, more particularly in the navy, where a commanding officer needs to be surrounded in his men’s eyes with a vivid consciou |
