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Before daybreak, however, the governor seems to have come to the prudent decision to avert, by a timely settlement with Patrick Henry, the impending attack; and accordingly, soon after daybreak, a messenger arrived at Doncastle's Ordinary, there to tender immediate satisfaction in money for the gunpowder that had been ravished away.
If I do not mistake, we shall have her closer by-and-by, and you may meet your gentlemanly friend again. Be careful how you talk to him. Ethelberta sat down, thought of the meeting at Corvsgate Castle, of the dinner-party at Mr. Doncastle's, of the strange position she had there been in, and then of her father.
The troops, having already resumed their march, were halted; and soon a settlement of the trouble was effected, according to the terms of the following singular document: DONCASTLE'S ORDINARY, NEW KENT, May 4, 1775.
After a few further words Neigh mentioned that he was unable to stay longer that evening, and left them. When he had reached the outside of the door he walked a little way up the pavement and back again, as if reluctant to lose sight of the street, finally standing under a lamp-post whence he could command a view of Mr. Doncastle's front.
You remember that he has only taken the situation at Mr. Doncastle's on the supposition that you all come to town as soon as he can see an opening for getting you there; and as nothing of the sort has offered itself to him, this will be the very thing.
Accordingly, even on his march homeward from Doncastle's Ordinary, the heart of Virginia began to go forth to him in expressions of love, of gratitude, and of homage, such as no American colonist perhaps had ever before received. Upon his return home, his own county greeted him with its official approval.
But, of course, there's a rival there always is I might have known that, and I will crush him! 'But Mrs. Doncastle's new maid if that was she I caught a glimpse of the other day is ever so much older than you a dozen years. 'What's that to a man in love? Pooh I wish you would leave me, Picotee; I wants to be alone.
I was, by accident, the first that Mrs. Menlove named the matter to, and I told her it might be much to her advantage if she took particular care it should go no further. 'Mrs. Menlove! Who's she? 'The lady's-maid at Mrs. Doncastle's, my lord. 'O, ah of course. You may leave me now, Tipman. Lord Mountclere remained in thought for a moment.
The young girl's eyes had not drooped over the handrail more than a few moments when she softly exclaimed, 'There she is, there she is! How lovely she looks, does she not? 'Who? said Mrs. Menlove. Picotee recollected herself, and hastily drew in her impulses. 'My dear mistress, she said blandly. 'That is she on Mr. Doncastle's arm.
I don't yet know what her character is, but she runs neck and neck with time closer than any woman I ever met. She stays out at night like this till the last moment, and often throws off her dashing courting-clothes in this way, as she runs down the steps, to save a journey to the top of the house to her room before going to Mrs. Doncastle's, who is in fact at this minute waiting for her.
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