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Sadly did poor Emmeline feel there was but little romance in her feelings; cold clinging despair had overcome her. She longed for the comfort of her mother's sympathy, but his character was not yet cleared. Mr. Hamilton evidently mistrusted the praises so lavishly bestowed on the young man by Lord Malvern's family; and how could she defend him, if accused of presumption towards herself?
"Now thet we stands in accord," mused Old Jim, "jestice kin come back ter ther cote-house ergin an' ther jedge won't be terrified ter dispense hit, with me sittin' on one side of him an' you on t'other. Men hev mistrusted ther law so long es one crowd held all hits power." Outside along the roadside margin of deep shadow crept the figure of a man with a rifle in his hand.
Philip's was a darker and more solid colour, and I have never seen man or woman with it and not mistrusted them. He wore a red velvet coat embroidered with gold, and as costly ruffles as I had ever seen in London. But for all this my cousin had a coarse look, and his polished blue flints of eyes were those of a coarse man.
"Wal, I kinder keep an eye on the little fellers, and most gen'lly know what they're up to; so when Dan kep going off to the paster, and coming home black and blue, I mistrusted that suthing was goin' on. I didn't say nothin', but I crep up into the barn chamber, and from there I see him goin' through all manner of games with Charlie.
It was a mark put on Asa Levens's face as a warning to folks that God mistrusted him." "When he was dead it was different," said Scattergood, with solemnity. "It said he had r'iled God past endurance." Mary nodded. She comprehended. "The truth will do," she said, confidently. "Did Abner mention last Tuesday to you?" Scattergood asked. "No." "Where was Asa Levens last Tuesday? Do you know, Mary?"
She had been so desirous to be happy, to be gay, to amuse herself, and yet to be innocent. Her father's somewhat epicurean doctrines had filled her mind completely. And what had hitherto come of it? Her husband mistrusted her; and she at this moment certainly mistrusted him most grievously. Could she fail to mistrust him? And she, absolutely conscious of purity, had been so grievously suspected!
"Anne should not have so mistrusted me," cried Franklin, much perturbed. "Surely I always protected her, and treated her well." "Ah, but you didn't know till last night that she was guilty." "No; but for all that " began Franklin, only to break off. "Where has she gone?" he demanded angrily. "I don't know. She had some money, and took a small black bag with her.
But it was lucky that I mistrusted your patience and put the time for the experiment a week later than I thought necessary . . . What is it? He turned from one to the other questioningly; there was a look on Harold's face that he did not quite comprehend. 'H-s-h, said the latter warningly, 'I'll tell you all about it . . . some time!
Among the gentlemen I recall Lord Augustus Hervey, who disguised himself so completely as a jester that no one could make out who he was. He said saucy things as a court fool. He even guyed his own wife, and she never mistrusted she was flirting with her own husband, but then, as she was ready to flirt with anybody, it made no difference."
He gave us a hearty welcome to such fare as they could give us, and invited us into the house. We soon discovered that he was a strong Union man, and, although we did not reveal ourselves to him as Yankees, I believe he at least mistrusted we were.
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