"--ARNOLD
"She has passed
To where, beyond these voices, there is peace."
It is the greatest folly to think that the only time worth writing
about is youth. It is an equal folly to imagine that love is the only
passion universally interesting. Elizabeth's years were no less vivid,
no less full of feeling and of changes, after her marriage than before
it. Indeed, she never quite lost the interests of her maiden life.
Hallam demanded an oversight she did not fail to give it. Three times
during the twelve years of its confiscation to Antony's creditors she
visited it. In these visits she was accompanied by Richard, and Harry,
and her own children. Then the Whaleys' accounts were carefully gone
over, and found always to be perfectly honorable and satisfactory.
And it is needless to say how happy Martha was at such times.
Gradually all ill-feeling passed away. The young squire, though
educated abroad, had just such a training as made him popular. For
he passed part of every year in Texas with Dick Millard, and all that
could be known about horses and hunting and woodcraft, Harry Hallam
knew. He had also taken on very easily the Texan manner, frank, yet
rather proud and phlegmatic: "Evidently a young man who knows what
he wants, and will be apt to get it," said Whaley.
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