[Night and Day by Virginia Woolf]@TWC D-Link bookNight and Day CHAPTER XII 20/31
When she ought to have been attending to the baby, her eyes were on the sea.
And Mrs.Hilbery allowed this girl--Susan her name was--to have him to stay in the village.
They abused her goodness, I'm sorry to say, and while they walked in the lanes, they stood the perambulator alone in a field where there was a bull.
The animal became enraged by the red blanket in the perambulator, and Heaven knows what might have happened if a gentleman had not been walking by in the nick of time, and rescued Katharine in his arms!" "I think the bull was only a cow, Aunt Celia," said Katharine. "My darling, it was a great red Devonshire bull, and not long after it gored a man to death and had to be destroyed.
And your mother forgave Susan--a thing I could never have done." "Maggie's sympathies were entirely with Susan and the sailor, I am sure," said Mrs.Cosham, rather tartly.
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