Oliphant, M: Marriage of Elinor (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Marriage of Elinor

Well! Of course it was a thing that he knew might happen any day, and which he had expected to happen for the last four or five years. It was nothing to him one way or another. Nothing could be more absurd than that a hearty and strong young man in the full tide of his life and with a good breakfast before him should receive a shock from that innocent little letter as if he had been a sentimental woman. But the fact is that he pushed his plate away with an exclamation of disgust and a feeling that everything was bad and un eatable. He drank his tea, though that also became suddenly bad too, full of tannin, like tea that has stood too long, a thing about which John was very partien lar. He had been half an hour later than usual this morning consequent on having been an hour or two later than usual last night. These things have their reward, and that very speedily; but as for the letter, what could that have to do with the bad toasting of the bacon and the tannin in the tea? 'f Do you know the man? There was a sort of covert insult, too, in the phraseology, as if no explanation was needed, as if he must know by instinct what she meant - he who knew nothing about it, who did not know there was a man at all!

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