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Among those whose ears had been reached by the hurrahs of these idlers was a man in silence and solitude, far out of the town. He was leaning over a gate that divided two meads in a watery level between Stancy Castle and Markton.
Hence in walking back to Markton, instead of going up the High Street, he turned aside into the unfrequented footway that led to the minister's cottage. Mr. Woodwell was not indoors at the moment of his call, and Somerset lingered at the doorway, and cast his eyes around. It was a house which typified the drearier tenets of its occupier with great exactness.
Somerset had expected to find his friends living in an old house with remnants of their own antique furniture, and he hardly knew whether he ought to meet them with a smile or a gaze of condolence. His doubt was terminated, however, by the cheerful and tripping entry of Miss De Stancy, who had returned from her drive to Markton; and in a few more moments Sir William came in from the garden.
'I am not an architect any more than I am a soldier; but I have taken in the Army and Navy Gazette these many weeks. When they were at breakfast the paper came in. Dare hastily tore it open and glanced at the pages. 'I am going to Markton after breakfast! he said suddenly, before looking up; 'we will walk together if you like?
Proceeding towards Markton by the same bypath, they presently came to an eminence covered with bushes of blackthorn, and tufts of yellowing fern. From this point a good view of the woods and glades about Stancy Castle could be obtained.
On his table was a letter in a strange writing, and indifferently turning it over he found from the superscription that it had been addressed to him days before at the Lord-Quantock-Arms Hotel, Markton, where it had lain ever since, the landlord probably expecting him to return. Opening the missive, he found to his surprise that it was, after all, an invitation to the Hunt Ball.
I divined that your next quarters would be Markton, the previous batteries that were at your station having come on here. I have wanted to see you badly. 'You have? 'I am rather out of cash. I have been knocking about a good deal since you last heard from me. 'I will do what I can again. 'Thanks, captain. 'But, Willy, I am afraid it will not be much at present.
On the evening of the fourth day after the parting between Paula and De Stancy at Amiens, when it was quite dark in the Markton highway, except in so far as the shades were broken by the faint lights from the adjacent town, a young man knocked softly at the door of Myrtle Villa, and asked if Captain De Stancy had arrived from abroad.
'Why will you plead so? No even though your mind is particularly set upon it, I cannot see her, or bestow a thought upon her, much as I should like to gratify you. When they had parted Dare walked along towards Markton with resolve on his mouth and an unscrupulous light in his prominent black eye.
The carriage did not reappear, and he went on towards Markton, disinclined to return again that day to the studio which had been prepared for him at the castle. He heard feet brushing the grass behind him, and, looking round, saw the Baptist minister. 'I have just come from the village, said Mr.
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