Jack Ballington,
Jack Ballington, Forester
作者：Moore, John Trotwood, 1858-1929; Gibbs, George, 1870-1942 [Illustrator]
体例：题 章数：61
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章节目录
共 61 题- BY
- JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE
- ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEORGE GIBBS
- CHAPTER
- I Was Never So Happy . . . . . . _Frontispiece_
- I was on Him, My Knee on His Breast
- Jack flushed. "Do you, Eloise--do you--"
- I bent down to kiss her, but she fenced away and drew back smiling.
- I dropped her hand, hurt.
- I bent over her. "Eloise, aren't you really going to kiss me?"
- I turned, hurt, and shook hands with old Thomas, the driver.
- I drew back, very much hurt. "Eloise!"
- She grew suddenly stern. "Jack, Jack, haven't I told you not to?"
- Eloise laughed. "Isn't it nonsense?"
- I could not speak. Eloise, I saw, had much to tell that I did not know.
- I had dropped her hand, and my head was bent. I knew what was coming.
- I flushed hot.
- I could only look my astonishment.
- I did not speak; she sighed.
- I remember that April day when I first saw the stone-crop in bloom.
- Eloise laughed behind me. "I knew he'd love you, Jack."
- I knew from her voice that she meant it.
- Colonel Goff laughed. "Fawncy!"
- I knew she saw me pale. I could have cursed myself for the weakness.
- I saw her arms around the great fatherly tree, her head against it.
- I could see that he was pleased and proud.
- I looked at her quickly.
- I started. She was pale, but went on.
- I nodded.
- I looked at her quickly.
- I started, angry, flushed.
- I looked up quickly and her face flushed with fighting fire.
- I saw her face in the starlight.
- I found Marget quite as troubled as Tammas.
- I laughed boyishly. "I will if it comes to a rub."
- Then both of her arms were around my neck. "Jack, Jack!"
- She laughed. "Why, Jack, of course I will."
- I was lusty and twenty--ME.
- I nodded.
- I could not speak.
- I took her in my arms, my face pressed against her cheek.
- I kissed the withered heart's-ease. Later I must have fallen asleep...
- I threw the reins over his head, crying, "_Go out--your way, Satan!_"
- I nodded. "I understand. I would give my life for her."
- He smiled. "Oh no; she'll waken herself."
- He pulled me to him and clasped me. "Jack, Jack, my boy!"
- I smiled, saluted, and went back to camp.
- I nodded. It was the savage's way of mutilating all our dead.
- WILLIAM McKINLEY."
- WHAT SAY THE BEECHES?
- I let him go. Nay, I locked the door behind him and went to sleep.
- And the other added, "No, see if you do!"
- I shouldered my gun. Somehow it didn't seem like the old, joyous hunt.
- I turned crimson.
- I nodded, beginning to become exhilarated myself.
- I turned red and pleaded guilty.
- I jumped out and had her by the bits.
- I took up the cat by the tail.
- I hate to write what followed. I felt faint and sick.
- I heard Eloise laugh.
- THE END