I had much to tell him, and he seemed to listen; but I do not think that he heard.
Miss Plinlimmon--dear soul, unknowingly--had prepared for me the very room to which Isabel had led me on the night of my first arrival, and in which she had knelt beside me.

Miss Plinlimmon had scarcely known Isabel, and I found her cheerfulness almost distressing when she came to wish me good night.
"And I have composed a stanza upon you," she whispered, "if you care for such things any longer.

But you must understand that it has been, so to speak, improvised, and--what with the supper and one thing and another--I have had no time to polish it." I said sleepily that, unpolished though it were, I wished to hear it thus; and here it is: "Wounded hero, you were shattered In the ankle--do not start! Much, much more it would have mattered In the immediate neighbourhood of the heart.
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