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He was as kind to her, and to Hannah, as if he had been their own child: and, indeed, it was but his duty to be so: he did everything to make their last years happy, and their deaths easy. Mrs. Lovel left all she had, when she died, to Marten; so that he was enabled to live in great comfort. Some time after Mrs.

The latter acknowledged the handwriting of General Sir , but remarked that the address was missing. "The address, Captain M'Intyre," answered Lovel, "shall be at your service whenever you choose to inquire after it." "I certainly shall not fail to do so," rejoined Hector.

Suddenly someone in the room struck a flint and lit a lantern. Lovel set his eyes to a crack and stood very still. The woman had gone, and the room held three men. One lay on the floor with a coarse kerchief, such as grooms wear, knotted round his throat. Over him bent a man in a long coat with a cape, a man in a dark peruke, whose face was clear in the lantern's light.

His father was a soldier of fortune as I am a sailor he himself, I suppose, is little better, unless just as his uncle pleases; and whether one pursues fortune by land, or sea, makes no great difference, I should fancy." "None in the universe, certainly," answered Lovel. "Well," said his new ally, "we will dine together and arrange matters for this rencounter.

Very great interests will be at her disposal, and she will of course wish to be near those who can advise her." "I am her only guardian. I can advise her." The Serjeant shook his head. "You will not help me then?" "I fear I cannot help you, Lady Lovel."

* The king's keys are, in law phrase, the crow-bars and hammers used to force doors and locks, in execution of the king's warrant. While the mendicant spoke thus, he was busied in removing a few loose stones in one angle of the eave, which obscured the entrance of the staircase of which he had spoken, and led the way into it, followed by Lovel in passive silence.

But here it is, and if you do not incline to leave this shade till the heat of the day has somewhat declined, and will have sympathy with my bad composition, perhaps Sir Arthur or Mr. Oldbuck will read it to us." "Not I," said Sir Arthur; "I was never fond of reading aloud." "Nor I," said Oldbuck, "for I have forgot my spectacles. But here is Lovel, with sharp eyes and a good voice; for Mr.

And where lies your vein? are you inclined to soar to the, higher regions of Parnassus, or to flutter around the base of the hill?" "I have hitherto attempted only a few lyrical pieces," said Lovel. "Just as I supposed pruning your wing, and hopping from spray to spray. But I trust you intend a bolder flight.

But, nevertheless, some feeling of disappointment which he could not analyze crept across his heart. If once the girl were married to Earl Lovel there would be an end of his services and of his son's. He had never really entertained an idea that his son would marry the girl. As the reader will perhaps remember, he had warned his son that he must seek a sweetheart elsewhere.

"That I will," said Joseph, "and spend my last remains of life and strength, to help my young lord to his right and title. But do they not begin to suspect who is the heir of Lovel?" "Not in the least," said Oswald; "they think him concerned in the discovery, but have no idea of his being interested in the event."