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They are very fond of each other. She is a dear soul. When matters go wrong down at Ewelme, it is old Mrs. Douglass who puts everything right." They were separated by a child who had been startled by a look from an amiable dromedary. Henry came forward. "I am going to ask my sister-in-law," he said deliberately, "to invite you down to Morden Place. Thank her, won't you?"
She was presently rewarded with the promise of the very person she wanted a boy, or young man, then in Earl Douglass's employ; but his wife said, "she guessed he'd give him up to her;" and what his wife said, Fleda knew Earl Douglass was in the habit of making good. "There aint enough to do to keep him busy," said Mrs. Douglass.
Lieutenant Richard Douglass was now dispatched to inform General Brown of the situation. On the night of the 23d Lieutenant-General Sir Gordon Drummond had arrived at the mouth of the river with re-enforcements. This was not known to General Brown. Riall had marched down the road which Scott was to have taken on the 26th, coming by Queenstown, and had not sent any troops across the Niagara.
The beringed and complacent wives of New York and their wine-befuddled husbands will find little to entertain them in this idyl of modern life. As for the author, George Douglass, we have only this to say: He is twenty years ahead of his time. Let him go on writing his best and be patient.
But once out on the tawny stretch that lay between him and his heart's desire, Douglass checked the swallow-like flight of that wonderful blue-blood and paced more leisurely along in profound meditation. He was not at all sure of his reception. What was he going to say in pleading to his outraged queen? What God-given words would be vouchsafed him to offer in palliation?
Bentley, Miss Bentley, Miss Meade, will you permit me to present my friend and classmate Mr. Jordan?" Belle, who was nearest, bowed and held out her hand. But Laura drew herself up haughtily. "Mr. Douglass," she answered coldly, "my apologies to you, but I don't wish to know -Mr. Jordan!" Belle caught the name again, and remembered.
"How d'ye do, Mr. Douglass," said Fleda. "How are they all at home?" "Well, there ain't nothin' new among 'em, as I've heerd on," said Earl, diligently though stealthily at the same time qualifying himself to make a report of Mr. Carleton, "I guess they'll be glad to see you. I be." "Thank you, Mr. Douglass. How is Hugh?"
Say nothing at present to Cloudy; permit him to assume that business takes me away, and go now quietly and order horses put to the carriage." "Dr. Douglass, we shall want your company also," said the officer, serving Paul with a subpoena. Paul ground his teeth together and rushed out of the door.
He turned one about, whistling, while he listened to her. "That's some o' Seth Plumfield's new jigs, aint it? I wonder if he thinks now the sap's a-goin' to run any sweeter out o' that 'ere than it would off the end of a chip that wa'n't quite so handsome?" "No, Mr. Douglass," said Fleda smiling, "he only thinks that this will catch a little more."
"Serve her right for not coming along! and you sha'n't walk home in the dark, for Earl will harness the team, and carry you home like a streak the horses have nothing to do. Come, you sha'n't go." And as Mrs. Douglass laid violent hands on her bonnet, Fleda thought best to submit.
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