I
heard the horse's feet against his head." Lord Rufford shuddered
and put his hand round her waist to support her. At that time they
were standing on the ground. "Don't mind me if you can do any good
to him." But there was nothing that Lord Rufford could do as four
men were carrying the Major on a shutter. So he and Arabella
returned together, and when she got off her horse she was only able
to throw herself into his arms.
CHAPTER XXIII
Poor Caneback
A closer intimacy will occasionally be created by some accident,
some fortuitous circumstance, than weeks of ordinary intercourse
will produce. Walk down Bond Street in a hailstorm of peculiar
severity and you may make a friend of the first person you meet,
whereas you would be held to have committed an affront were you to
speak to the same person in the same place on a fine day. You shall
travel smoothly to York with a lady and she will look as though she
would call the guard at once were you so much as to suggest that it
were a fine day; but if you are lucky enough to break a wheel
before you get to Darlington, she will have told you all her
history and shared your sherry by the time you have reached that
town. Arabella was very much shocked by the dreadful accident she
had seen. Her nerves had suffered, though it may be doubted whether
her heart had been affected much.
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