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Ruth knew this, and likewise she was confident that they were by no means getting nearer to the camp when they followed such a course. But she hoped to find some shelter before the weakest of the girls gave out. This was Lluella Fairfax. She was delicately built, and unused to muscular exertion of any kind.
The siege of the Castle was not regularly undertaken till two or three years later than the time I have been describing, when Lady Baxby and all the women therein, except the wife of the then Governor, had been removed to safe distance. That memorable siege of fifteen days by Fairfax, and the surrender of the old place on an August evening, is matter of history, and need not be told by me.
Arnold very lovely compared with the men of the New Model Army and their ways. In the general of the New Model Army, Sir Thomas Fairfax, he has a distinct, and we venture to say very worthy, pupil of that school. Over the most questionable as well as the most momentous passage in Falkland's public life, his admirer passes with a graceful literary movement.
Fairfax found you out of doors a broken rule, Betty, but I pass that over. He heard you sobbing in the bitterness of your distress, and discovered that you were lying face downwards on the grass in the fir-plantation. When he called you, you went to him and told him you had lost something." "So I have," answered Betty. "Is it because of that you are unhappy?"
Nevertheless, by some feminine inconsistency, evidently the circumstance did make them think more of HIM, for a minute later, when they had reentered their own room, Christie remarked, "The idea of petting a man by his family name! Think of mamma ever having called papa 'darling Carr'!" "Oh, but his family name isn't Fairfax," said Jessie hastily; "that's his FIRST name, his Christian name.
"You must live to receive it," he said, "we need that money for the race. It must not go back to the white folks. Ain't you got nobody to leave it to?" "Not a chick ner a chile, 'ceptin' Sis' Dicey Fairfax here." Mr. Buford breathed again. "Then leave it to her, by all means," he said. "I don' want to have nothin' to do with de money of de daid," said Sis' Dicey Fairfax.
Fairfax, if you have nothing better to do," said Mr. Granger, with his lofty air, as much as to say, "I suppose I ought to be civil to this young man." "It is quite impossible that I could have anything better to do," replied Mr. Fairfax. "In that case, if you will kindly give your arm to my daughter, we'll move off at once. I have wished Mr. Wooster good-afternoon on your part, Clary.
George Fairfax stopped her at the threshold, and quietly closed the door. "Don't go yet, Clarissa. I want to speak to you." His tone told her what was coming the scene in the conservatory was to be acted over again. This was the first time they had been actually alone since that too-well-remembered night. She drew herself up haughtily. A woman's weakness makes her desperate in such a case as this.
"It will suit me exactly a mule or an ox-cart instead of the train, byways for highways, and sauntering for speed. Did I not tell you long ago, Mr. Phipps, that the gypsy wildness was in the Fairfax blood, and that some day it would be my fate to travel ever so far and wide, and to come home again browner than any berry?"
"We'll bring no unnecessary factors into this business, Fairfax. I don't conceive that it is necessary for us to quarrel. It is not you who have wrought the harm that burden rests elsewhere. Have you seen Unity?" "No, sir." "Then we had better send for her." The Major rose and pulled the bell-rope. "Some one must go to Roselands. When do you propose to act?" "Very soon, sir. Almost at once.
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