[The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookThe Adventures of Harry Richmond CHAPTER V 30/51
His sleeve happened to be unbuttoned, and there, on his arm, was a mark of the cane. 'Look!' I said to Julia.
But she looked at me. 'Richie, are you ill ?' She assured me I was very pale, and I felt her trembling excessively, and her parasol was covering us. 'Here, Roy, Temple,' we heard Heriot call; 'here, come here and bowl to me.' I went and bowled till I thought my head was flying after the ball and getting knocks, it swam and throbbed so horribly. Temple related that I fell, and was carried all the way from the cricket-field home by Heriot, who would not give me up to the usher.
I was in Julia's charge three days.
Every time I spoke of her father and Heriot, she cried, 'Oh, hush!' and had tears on her eyelids.
When I was quite strong again, I made her hear me out.
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