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When the Judge opened his eyes for the last time in this world, they fell first upon the face of his old friend, Colonel Carvel. Twice he tried to speak his name, and twice he failed. The third time he said it faintly. "Comyn!" "Yes, Silas." "Comyn, what are you doing here? "I reckon I came to see you, Silas," answered the Colonel. "To see me die," said the Judge, grimly.
Well, to drive out these black villains, to free his kingdom, not alone from the yoke of an English Edward, but a Scottish Comyn, good King Robert was resolved and even as he resolved he did.
Betty Tayloe, who plied me with questions concerning Dorothy and London, but especially about the dashing and handsome Lord Comyn; and the Dulany girls, and I know not how many others. And when I twitted her with this she would redden and reply: "I was created for a housewife, sir, and not to make eyes from behind a fan."
But he could be got to write to no one, said my Lord, with kind exaggeration; nor will he receive letters, for fear he may get a dun. Alas, I got no message from Dorothy! Nor had she ever mentioned my name to Comyn. He had not seen her for eight months after I left England, as she had been taken to the Continent for her health. She had lost much of her levity, likewise.
Colfax's gaze rested languidly on her niece's faces which glowed with indignation. "You get this terrible habit of argument from Comyn," she said. "He ought to send you to boarding-school. How mean of Mr. Vance not to come! You've been talking with that old reprobate Whipple. Why does Comyn put up with him?" "He isn't an old reprobate," said Virginia, warmly.
I dared not look up at her face, but stood with my eyes on the ground, waiting. "'Lord Comyn, says she, presently, with a quiver in her voice, 'before I give you a reply you must first answer, on your word as a gentleman, what I ask you. "I bowed again. "'Is it true that Richard Carvel was in love with Miss Swain? she asked."
He then informed them of the bond into which he and Comyn had entered, and of its betrayal by Comyn to Edward. "Thus it is," he said, "that the deed has taken place, and it is too late to mend it. We have before us a desperate enterprise, and yet I hope that we may succeed in it. At any rate, this time there can be no drawing back, and we must conquer or die.
It was "Yes, my Lord," and "To be sure, your Lordship," every other second, and he seized the first occasion to make me an elaborate apology for his former cold conduct, assuring me that had our honours been pleased to divulge the fact that we had friends in London, such friends as my Lord Comyn and Mr.
But advancing autumn forced them to think of providing shelter, and as they advanced toward the Tay, they came into the country of John Macdougal, Lord of Lorn, a son-in-law of the Red Comyn, and therefore at deadly feud with the Bruces.
The rest of us were silent, too, Comyn now and again giving me eloquent glances expressive of what he would say if she were not present; the captain watching her with a furtive praise, and he vowed to me afterward she was never so beautiful as when angry, that he loved her as an avenging Diana.
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