Nor was she like to recognize him as the youth in whose company she had gone through her mortal peril, for all her recollections were confused and dreamlike from the moment when she awoke and found herself in the foaming rapids just above the fall, until that when her senses returned, and she saw Master Byles Gridley standing over her with that look of tenderness in his square features which had lingered in her recollection, and made her feel towards him as if she were his daughter.
Now this had its advantage; for as Clement was Susan's young man, and had been so for two or three years, it would have been a great pity to have any such curious relations established between him and Myrtle Hazard as a consciousness on both sides of what had happened would naturally suggest.
"Who is this Clement Lindsay, Bathsheba ?" Myrtle asked.
"Why, Myrtle, don't you remember about Susan Posey's is-to-be,--the young man that has been well, I don't know, but I suppose engaged to her ever since they were children almost ?" "Yes, yes, I remember now.

Oh dear! I have forgotten so many things, I should think I had been dead and was coming back to life again.

Do you know anything about him, Bathsheba?
Did n't somebody say he was very handsome?
I wonder if he is really in love with Susan Posey.

Such a simple thing?
I want to see him.

I have seen so few young men." As Myrtle said these words, she lifted the sleeve a little on her left arm, by a half-instinctive and half-voluntary movement.