"
"He is just as much a medical student as you! That vexes me."
"Yes, but he did not give up the service for it, when she implored
him."
"A silly girl! O Jock, if you had but come down to Fordham."
"It might have made no odds. Friar was so aggressively jolly after
his Christmas visit, that I fancy it was done then. Besides, just
look at us together!"
"He will never get your air of the Guards."
"Which is preposterously ridiculous in the hospital," said Jock,
endeavouring to smile. "Never mind, mother. It was all up with me
two years ago, as I very well knew. Good-night. You've only got me
the more whole and undivided, for the extinction of my will-of-the-
wisp."
She saw he had rather say no more, and only returned his fervent
embrace with interest; but Babie knew she was restless and unhappy
all night, and would not ask why, being afraid to hear that it was
about Fordham, who coughed more, and looked frailer.
He never went out in the evening now, and only twice to the House,
when his vote was more than usually important; but Mrs. Evelyn was
taking Sydney into society, and the shrinking Esther needed a
chaperon much more, being so little aware of her own beauty, that she
was wont to think something amiss with her hair or her dress when she
saw people looking at her.
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