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Chapter Five.
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Difficulties met and overcome.
Miles and his friend Brown, after their work at the jetty, had chanced to return to the Institute at the moment referred to in the last chapter, when the poor young widow, having become resigned, had been led through the passage to her bedroom. Our hero happened to catch sight of her face, and it made a very powerful impression on him—an impression which was greatly deepened afterwards on hearing of her death.
In the reception-room he found Armstrong still in earnest conversation with his wife.
“Hallo, Armstrong! still here? Have you been sitting there since I left you?” he asked, with a smile and look of surprise.
“Oh no!” answered his friend; “not all the time. We have been out walking about town, and we have had dinner here—an excellent feed, let me tell you, and cheap too. But where did you run off to?”
“Sit down and I’ll tell you,” said Miles.
Thereupon he related all about his day’s experiences. When he had finished, Armstrong told him that his own prospect1 of testing the merits of a troop-ship were pretty fair, as he was ordered for inspection2 on the following day.
“So you see,” continued the young soldier, “if you are accepted—as you are sure to be—you and I will go out together in the same vessel3.”
“I’m glad to hear that, anyhow,” returned Miles.
“And I am very glad too,” said little Emily, with a beaming smile, “for Willie has told me about you, Mr Miles; and how you first met and took a fancy to each other; and it will be so nice to think that there’s somebody to care about my Willie when he is far away from me.”
The little woman blushed and half-laughed, and nearly cried as she said this, for she felt that it was rather a bold thing to say to a stranger, and yet she had such a strong desire to mitigate4 her husband’s desolation when absent from her that she forcibly overcame her modesty
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countenance
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interpretation
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wont
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