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`` Ay , I dare say , '' said the Major , a little amused . `` Well , sir , what could a man do with most bewitching creature in the world , his own wife , too , on the next chair to him ? '' There was a simplicity about the stripling -- for he was hardly more -- which forced them to forgive him ; besides , they were touched by his paleness and fatigue . His own man -- a respectable elderly servant whom the Major recollected waiting on Sir Jovian -- came to beg that his honour would sit up no longer , as he had been travelling since six in the morning , and was quite worn out . Indeed , so it proved ; for when the Major and Betty not only promised to come with him on the search the next day , but bade him a kind affectionate good-night , the poor lad , all unused to kindness , fairly burst into tears , which all his dawning manhood could not restrain . Oh , if I were an eagle to soar into the sky , I 'd gaze around with piercing eye when I my love might spy . The second-best coach , which resided at Bowstead , the same which had carried Aurelia off from Knightsbridge , had brought Sir Amyas Belamour to Carminster -- an effeminate proceeding of which he was rather ashamed , though clearly he could not have ridden , and he had hoped to have brought his bride back in it .