The courtier of the days of Charles ii, with other tales. By the author of 'Mrs. Armytage'. |
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255 ページ - Strand ; without other visitors than a scrivener or two, and one Diggens, a law-stationer of Chancery Lane: It was on the sixth evening after the establishment of the Blandford attorney at his lodgings, that he returned, as usual, at an early hour, fatigued by press of business, and announcing his intent to refresh himself with a cup of Dorchester ale, ere he retired to rest, that he might be on foot betimes on the morrow ; and John Collins, who had been plotting with the apprentices of the law-stationer...
237 ページ - Marriage ; and by marriage possession of her person and estates," said Dewey stoutly. "The designing villain!" cried Strangwayes, involuntarily clenching his fist. " Woo a wife of Mabel's years, (even in her youth so hard-favoured as never to have found a suitor, and now fouler-faced than the old woman of Endor,) in order to obtain possession of goods and chattels not her own ; and to bestow them doubtless on the whelps of his former brood, to the despoilment of my sister's legal heirs ! I'll learn...
268 ページ - Rachel ! " faltered the prisoner, his strong voice waxing weak as he addressed the child. " Father ! dear, dear father ! " murmured the little creature in reply. " What art thou doing, father, in this dark, sad place ? It is so long since thou wert down at Beechwood ; and I have wearied for thee so grievously ! Winter is almost gone ; there are white snowdrops springing up, and the briars budding in the garden-hedge. Come back with me, father, to Beechwood ; come away from these great gloomy walls...
249 ページ - ... his enemies had found means to poison against him the minds of his kinsfolk and acquaintance ; that he was represented as a strong-handed man, going about to devour the substance of a sister, whom it was his duty to foster and protect; as a ruffian bidding defiance to the laws and legislature. He saw that all men avoided him as a brawler and peacebreaker. In Blandford, his native place, persons of honourable degree, connexions of his family, or hand-in-hand companions of his youth, were seen...
205 ページ - It was owing to the suggestions of this mater-nal monologue, that poor Maurice Carrol, the hunchback, took a sudden and desperate resolu-tion to minister, for the future, to his own maintenance. It was not much he could do. He could not dig, and, though to beg he was by no means ashamed, there was not a soul in the country, now the mansions at Castle Carrol and Vale Banatha were shut up, to encourage beggars. A few handfuls of meal or a stale loaf were the utmost he was likely to procure from the...
215 ページ - ... blood ! Wherever he turned, he beheld that ghastly spectacle. His dying father had committed the helpless lame boy to his charge, to be unto him as a child of his own ; and now, his father's voice seemed to sound anew in his ears, bidding him arise and avenge the death of his son ! In the midst of some household occupation or labour of husbandry, he would pause suddenly ; and, with compressed lips, and big beads of moisture standing out upon his brow, fold his arms across his breast, and give...
233 ページ - Strangwayes between his teeth, as he whisked off with his riding wand a tendril of the dogroses interlacing the green lane through which they were pacing. " or you and yours would scarcely have the upper hand this day of King Charles's loyal subjects, to read a sermon to my patience!" Then, turning towards the sedate Dewey, he resumed: " But, as touching this affair of Mussen Farm, I protest to you that I see no cause to misdoubt the prudent government of my sister. Mabellah is of grave years, (my...
261 ページ - ... Catholic connection finding little favour in the eyes of a Roundhead magistrate. But, on the news of his wife's arrest, the cavalier surrendered himself; and admitted that he had indeed borrowed a carbine of Master Holloway on the day in question, for a friend, who purposed to use it in...
196 ページ - Carrol lost no time in becoming a suitor; and, after the usual forms of courtship, Miss Florence O'Banatha became Countess of O'Carrol. The old hall rang with the gay doings of the wedding; and, soon after the close of the year, the church bells rang again in honour of the birth of an heir to hill and valley; and as, within no great distance of time, they tolled out dole-fully for the burial of the heiress-countess, no second offspring came to divide the inheritance of the young peer. It was much...
181 ページ - ... I have stayed up, night after night, this Winter, at the masked balls, at the opera, or at Musard's, till seven o' clock in the morning, which is an ugly hour to look in the face when you have had no sight of a pillow, and the snow too thick on the ground to admit of sleeping on one's wheelbarrow, at the corner of the street, during the day-time. However, there's an end to all things ! All's over ! All's safe ! Last night my money was deposited with the Treasurer of the Hospital, to the last...