United States or Democratic Republic of the Congo ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
I am waiting for you. You have been a long time getting up with me, seeing the glorious nature of our deeds to-day! 'Well said, Derriman, well said! replied the foremost of the riders. 'Have you heard anything new? 'Only that he's here with his tens of thousands, and that we are to ride to meet him sword in hand as soon as we have assembled in the town ahead here.
Garland, in a hankering tone. 'I was rather too nice in listening to you and not going. The parson never calls upon us except in his spiritual capacity. Old Derriman is hardly genteel; and there's nobody left to speak to. Lonely people must accept what company they can get. 'Or do without it altogether.
Derriman? said she. "What do you want, Mr. Derriman?" now listen to that! Is that my encouragement? Anne bowed superciliously, and moved away. 'I have just heard news that explains all that, said the giant, eyeing her movements with somnolent irascibility. 'My uncle has been letting things out. He was here late last night, and he saw you. 'Indeed he didn't, said Anne. 'O, now!
Anne, supposing him really indifferent, took the same way, upon which he turned his head and waited for her with a proud smile. 'I cannot go with you, she said decisively. 'Nonsense, you foolish girl! I must walk along with you down to the corner. 'No, please, Mr. Derriman; we might be seen. 'Now, now that's shyness! he said jocosely. 'No; you know I cannot let you. 'But I must.
Anne turned away, and instead of informing her mother that she had been running like a doe to escape the interesting heir-presumptive alluded to, merely said 'Mother, I don't like this at all. After this, Anne would on no account walk in the direction of the hall for fear of another encounter with young Derriman.
'It is easy to call me a weathercock, said the matron, putting on the look of a good woman; 'but I have reasoned it out, and at last, thank God, I have got over my ambition. The Lovedays are our true and only friends, and Mr. Festus Derriman, with all his money, is nothing to us at all. 'But, said Anne, 'what has made you change all of a sudden from what you have said before?
It suddenly flashed upon her mind that she herself had heard voices in the garden, and that the persons seen by Farmer Derriman, of whose visit and reclamation of his box the miller had told her, might have been Matilda and John Loveday.
There was no light in the passage, but John pushed on at hazard, inquired for Derriman, and was told that he would be found in the back parlour alone.
Now you are caught! came like a clap of thunder from a point three or four feet beneath her, and turning down her frightened eyes she beheld Festus Derriman lurking close to the wall.
It was not till the troopers reached the turnpike that they learnt what Festus had known a quarter of an hour before. At the intelligence Derriman sheathed his sword with a sigh; and the party soon fell in with comrades who had arrived there before them, whereupon the source and details of the alarm were boisterously discussed.
Word Of The Day