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And, Richard, go and see if the Dunscombe paper is come, and bring it up." The footman disappeared. As soon as the door was shut Marsham sank back into his cushions with a stifled groan. He was lying on a sofa in his own sitting-room. A fire burned in the grate, and Marsham's limbs were covered with a rug. Yet it was only the first week of September, and the afternoon was warm and sunny.
Dunscombe, and her kind friend's warning not to indulge it, and all his teaching that day; and tears came with the thought, how glad she should be to hear him speak to her again.
The pale features of Alice Dunscombe became slightly tinged with red, as the colonel proceeded, nor did the faint glow entirely leave her pallid face, until she had said: "There might have been some who knew not how to respect the laws of the land, for such are never wanting: but there were others, who, however guilty they might be in many respects, need not charge themselves with that mean crime, and yet who could find the passages that lie hid from common eyes, beneath the rude waves, as well as you could find the way through the halls and galleries of the Abbey, with a noonday sun shining upon its vanes and high chimneys."
"How, sir!" exclaimed the lad, a little fiercely, "a lie!" "Only a white one," returned the captain. "What do you call this. Miss Dunscombe?" "We call it bobbin, sir, generally, in the north," said the placid Alice. "Ay, bobbin, or white-line; they are the same thing," added the young trader. "They are?
Dunscombe got out, and saw her daughter and servant do the same; then after giving some orders about the baggage, she returned to Ellen. "Will you get out, Miss Montgomery, or would you prefer to remain in the carriage? We must go on board directly." There was something, not in the words, but in the tone, that struck Ellen's heart with an entirely new feeling.
But that good lady, who though voluble was shrewd, told her husband afterward that she was certain Sir James believed Marsham to be responsible for the Herald article. A week later the subject was renewed at a very heated and disorderly meeting at Dunscombe.
Dunscombe, "I don't care but make haste to get ready, for I expect every minute when the tea-bell will ring." "Timmins! Timmins!" cried Margaret, "come here and fix me quick! and step softly, will you? or you'll wake that young one up, and then, you see, I shall have to stay up stairs." This did not happen, however. Ellen's sleep was much too deep to be easily disturbed.
My name may be terrible to the officers of the royal fleet, but where and how have I earned a claim to be considered formidable to the helpless and unoffending?" Alice Dunscombe cast a furtive and timid glance at the Pilot, which spoke even stronger than her words, as she replied: "I know not that all which is said of you and your deeds is true.
But how entertain such a notion in the case of Oliver! Ridiculous! He would write no more letters, however. With the news of the Dunscombe meeting the relations between himself and Oliver entered upon a new phase.
These middle-aged ladies, the daughters of a deceased doctor from the neighboring county town of Dunscombe, were, if possible, more plainly dressed than usual, and their manners more forbidding. "You will have heard of this disagreeable incident which has occurred," said Miss Maria to Mrs. Roughsedge, with a pinched mouth. "My sister and I shall, of course, remove our names from the Club."
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