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A single servant appeared, and ushered Clarence through a screen hall, hung round with relics of armour, and ornamented on the side opposite the music gallery with a solitary picture of gigantic size, and exhibiting the full length of the gaunt person and sable steed of that Sir Piers de Mordaunt who had so signalized himself in the field in which Henry of Richmond changed his coronet for a crown.
He wondered a little what Trevor Mordaunt would have said under similar circumstances. "I hope she will be straightforward with him," was his reflection. "But she is a Wyndham of the Wyndhams, and everyone knows that her father didn't suffer over-much from that complaint." Which was true.
I wanted to play the gardener's son, or Mordaunt to Lady Mabel; and I can't write poetry, and I'm not in the House of Commons. I suppose my head was a little bewildered by the kindness and condescension of those excellent people.
Somers, who saw that she had small chance of selling the locket to Clemmy, was now addressing herself to the elder girl more likely to have sufficient pocket-money, and whom, at all events, it was quite safe to trust. "The ring fits you so nicely, Miss Mordaunt, and every young lady of your age wears at least one ring; allow me to put it up."
The commons immediately resolved, that an address should be presented to his majesty, returning him the thanks of this house for his gracious message of that day, in the communication he had been pleased to make of the reason for putting lieutenant-general sir, John Mordaunt in arrest.
Fire flashed from the dark eyes of Mordaunt at the captain's positive and careless language, and he spoke again with all the spirited eloquence of a British sailor. He did not spare the cruel recklessness that could thus refuse to save a fellow-creature's life, merely because it might occasion a little delay and trouble.
Herman Mordaunt, having fortified his house sufficiently, as he fancied, to remove all danger of an assault, returned with us to Mooseridge, and passed two or three days in walking over and examining the quality of the land, together with the advantages offered by the water-courses. As for Mr.
"I have this instant left him," replied Mordaunt, alighting, in order to give his horse to a soldier to hold. "Why did you not say so at once, my dear sir! all England is with Cromwell; and since you ask for my prisoners, I bend, sir, to your wishes. They are yours; take them." Mordaunt, delighted, advanced, Porthos looking at D'Artagnan with open-mouthed astonishment.
He drank almost with reverence, and set down his glass with a hand that trembled. Mordaunt got up. "That is settled, then. By the way, the question of salary does not seem to have occurred to you. I don't know if you have any ideas upon the subject. Four hundred pounds per annum is what I thought of offering." "Four hundred pounds!" De Montville stared at him in amazement.
Yet after a moment his hand came out gropingly and touched the man beside him. Mordaunt took it and held it. "You believe me?" Bertrand jerked out. "I believe you," Mordaunt answered very gravely. "You you forgive?" Painfully the question came. It went into silence. But the hand that had taken Bertrand's closed slowly and very firmly. "Et la petite la petite " faltered Bertrand.
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