The Deserter

Excerpt from The Deserter, and From the Ranks: Two Novels

Nellie was pledged, therefore, and this youth in the Pullman was not one of those fellows in buttons, so far as Mrs. Rayner knew, but she was ready to warn him off, and meant to do so, until, to her surprise, She saw that he gave no symptom of a desire to approach. By noon of the second day she was as determined to extract from him some Sign of interest as she had been determined to resent it. I can in no wise explain or account for this. The fact is stated without remark.

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