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The Salamanca Corpus: Yeoman Fleetwood (1900) prayed that God would give you to me — ah, if you knew how I have dreamt of it! Some day, sweetheart, we shall be married there, and you and I will walk quietly together afterwards to our home." "Oh, oh — what a prosy old Simon! So that is your notion? Confess mine is much more original. Think of the excitement — stealing away in the early morning, and getting far on our way before the hue and cry began, and then galloping, galloping, keeping ever ahead of our pursuers. I should like them to come rather near, near enough to make our hearts beat fast; but we should give them the slip in the end, and be man and wife before [266] they could come up with us. To my mind it would be glorious.” Simon looked at her in silence, and with a smile which, if somewhat startled, was still indulgent. After a moment she said in an altered tone:— "I have shocked you, have I not? You did not think I could be unmaidenly." "It is not in you to be unmaidenly," he returned, very kindly. "If you are a little childish now and then, I do not find it hard to forgive you." "Do you call it childishness?" said she musingly; "Well, perhaps. Since you forgave me you may call it what you will." [267] CHAPTER XXIV. Alack, what heinous sin is it in me, To be ashaimed to be my father's child.. But though I am a daughter to his blood, I am not to his manners; O Lorenzo, If thou keep promise I shall end this strife. But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. — Shakespeare.
The Salamanca Corpus: Yeoman Fleetwood (1900) Affairs were still in an uncertain state when they were unexpectedly brought to a crisis by the sudden summons of Mrs. Charnock to the dying bed of her aged mother. A passionate attachment had always existed between the two, though of late years they had only seen each other at long intervals; and Madam prepared to set out without delay. Her anguish and anxiety were increased by the unsatisfactory position in which Rachel found herself. At the latter's earnest request, and in obedience to the promptings of her own heart, Mrs. Charnock took courage to remonstrate with her husband before leaving, and succeeded in extorting from him an unwilling recognition of the engagement. Relieved, and almost joyful in spite of her sadness, she hastened to impart the tidings to her daughter. “He consents, Rachel," she said; "ah, child, your father has a warm heart — you must not misjudge him. He cannot bear, he says, to add to my anxiety, and so he gives leave for Simon to visit you here during my absence as your acknowledged suitor; and promises to talk about the wedding on my return. He is writing [268] this very day to break the tidings to his brother. So now, my little one, you are satisfied, are you not? You must be patient and discreet while I am away; be content with seeing Simon here, and do not go to his house, or you will set people talking." Rachel dutifully promised to be all that her parents could wish. She felt a real sorrow for her mother's impending loss, and grieved to see her set forth on her long journey with so heavy a heart; yet nevertheless she could not altogether repress her own natural joy at the turn affairs were taking. After the departure of his wife, whom, no doubt he loved in his own fashion, often as he tried her, the Squire relapsed into his former morose state; he would often sit opposite his daughter at meals without vouchsafing a single remark to her, and only responding in gruff monosyllables to her occasional utterances. One morning, however, on coming down to breakfast, he astonished her by a query:— "Did your mother say anything to you, before she left, with reference to this ridiculous engagement of yours?"
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