Terrific shouts were raised by the rabble, who threatened to tear Wild in pieces if he showed himself. "Aw, piffle!" he said, half aloud and rather disgustedly, as he stepped out into the sunshine. At the thought of the major, her tears redoubled and she was obliged to rip off a piece from the remnants of her already maltreated underpetticoats with which to blow her nose and soak the damp from her cheeks. For nearly thirty years he had lived here in contented loneliness; then youth had to come and fill him with discontent. Past her shot the little old lady in the bonnet, running incredibly fast, but otherwise still alertly respectable, and she was making a strange threatening sound as she ran, such as one would use in driving ducks out of a garden—“B-rr-r-r-r—!” and pawing with black-gloved hands. On the other hand, you seldom revere your immediate grandfather, unless he has promised to leave you some money. It was as if she had come upon the beautiful marble façade of a fairy palace, was invited to enter, and behind the door—nothing. I wonder——” He turned slowly round.
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