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Farmers and farmers' wives in their Sunday suits and bonnets and shawls; girls and their sweethearts; children frolicking and chasing about; and old dames in red cloaks gossiping together. At the Castle, there were ladies and gentlemen who had come to see the fun, and to congratulate the Earl, and to meet Mrs. Errol.
I seen her meself a few minnits, an' she was fond av the Capt'in, ma'am, an' graivs fur him; and she said to say the big cat slapin' on the rug moight make the room same homeloike to yez. She knowed Capt'in Errol whin he was a bye an' a foine handsum' bye she ses he was, an' a foine young man wid a plisint word fur every one, great an' shmall.
Had there been an accident, she asked herself? She hastened her steps and drew near. As she did so, the man straightened himself suddenly, and turned round, and instantly a thrill of recognition and of horror went through the girl. It was Nap Errol, and the thing on the ground was his black mare. She knew in a flash what had happened. Bertie had predicted disaster too often for her not to know.
Instinctively we looked at Karatoff. Plainly he was nervous and overwrought now. His voice shook as he brought Errol out of the trance, and Errol, dazed, uncomprehending, struggled to take in the horribly unreal tragedy which greeted his return to consciousness. "It it was an accident," muttered Karatoff, eagerly trying to justify himself, though trembling for once in his life.
It is a large quadrangular building, without a tree in the neighbourhood. It had a somewhat gloomy aspect under the dark sky when we saw it. The property belonged, till lately, to the Earl of Errol, whose nearest neighbour to the eastward was, as Dick said, "Hamlet's Ghost," or the Castle of Elsinore, which stands on the shores of the Skagerack.
He got up and vigorously poked the fire. Lucas Errol endured the clatter for several seconds in silence: then, "Boney," he said, "since you are feeling energetic, you might lend me a hand." Nap laid down the poker instantly. "I am sorry, old fellow. I forgot. Let me ring for Hudson." "Can't you help me yourself?" Lucas asked.
Errol, "but I know my little boy believes " She stopped short a moment, looking quietly into his face, and then she added, "I know that Cedric loves you." "Would he have loved me," said the Earl dryly, "if you had told him why I did not receive you at the Castle?" "No," answered Mrs. Errol, "I think not. That was why I did not wish him to know."
Poor Sam was at the bar for murder. The gentleman in his gown and wig began his yarn, stating that how the late fellow, whose name was Will Errol, was with his own wife when Sam harpooned him. "`That's a lie! cried Sam; `he was with my wife. False papers! Here are mine; and he pulled out his tin case, and handed them to the court.
"Who is your grandfather?" he asked. Cedric put his hand in his pocket and carefully drew out a piece of paper, on which something was written in his own round, irregular hand. "I couldn't easily remember it, so I wrote it down on this," he said. And he read aloud slowly: "'John Arthur Molyneux Errol, Earl of Dorincourt. That is his name, and he lives in a castle in two or three castles, I think.
Croker that he believed Lord Errol was meant here as well as post, April 28, 1778. See Boswell's Hebrides, Aug. 24, 1773. 'Must give us pause. Hamlet, act iii. sc. 1. 'He was the first, writes Dr. I visited that venerable man, Dr. Rutty, just tottering over the grave; but still clear in his understanding, full of faith and love, and patiently waiting till his change should come.
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