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"You'll either throw me out of the window or kick me downstairs directly you know the truth." "I'm not in the habit of doing these things," Mordaunt remarked, with the ghost of a smile. "But this is an exceptional case." Rupert straightened himself abruptly, and turned in his chair, meeting the quiet eyes. "Damn it, I'll tell you!" he said, springing to his feet with sudden resolution.
"Well, gentlemen," resumed Mordaunt, "we must set out without delay, to-day is the last day granted me by the cardinal. My ship is ready, and had you not come I must have set off without you, for General Cromwell expects my return impatiently." "So!" thought the lieutenant, "'tis to General Cromwell that our dispatches are addressed." "Have you no letter for him?" asked the young man.
Even my presence has been no obstacle to his declarations, for three times have I heard him beg Mary to consider him as a suitor for her hand, and entreat her not to decide on his offer until he has had a longer opportunity to win her esteem." "And this you will admit, Miss Mordaunt, is to his credit, is manly, and like himself?" "It is certainly frank and honourable, Mr.
"It is on the subject of the great merit of us poor fellows who have crossed the wide Atlantic in order to protect the colonies, New York among the number, and their people, Miss Mordaunt and Miss Wallace inclusively, from the grasp of their wicked enemies, the French.
We might have liked it better, perhaps, could we have received epistles that were a little more pointed in this particular; but those we actually got were much too precious to leave any serious grounds of complaint. One from Herman Mordaunt reached us on the evening of the second Saturday, when our whole party was at home, and assembled at supper.
They met Rupert sauntering out "to pay his respects," as he termed it, though, if there were any luck going, he supposed that his future brother-in-law had secured it all. "Thought you didn't believe in luck," observed Mordaunt. "I believe in bad luck," returned Rupert pessimistically. "I only know the other sort by hearsay." "Isn't he absurd?" laughed Chris. "He always talks like that.
These things ought not to be done, Dirck, among persons of a certain stamp, and who are supposed to know what is proper." "This would be all right enough, Corny, had Herman Mordaunt, or his daughter, been at Lilacsbush; but they live in Crown Street, in town, in winter, and never come out here until after the Pinkster holidays, let them come when they may."
"I understand Dutch as well as excellent Mrs. Bogart," said Guert, a little drily; "and I heard nothing; while I fancy I understand the river better. This ice would bear a dozen loads of hay, in a close line." This again satisfied Herman Mordaunt and the ladies, but it did not satisfy me.
Edward returned his regard with all the warmth of his enthusiastic nature strengthened by the manner in which his letters from home alluded to Lieutenant Mordaunt as his preserver; and before their voyage was completed, Mordaunt, in compliance with the young man's earnest entreaty, consented to accompany him, in the first place, to Richmond, whence Edward promised, after introducing him to his family, and finding him a safe harbour there, he would leave no stone unturned to discover every possible information concerning Mordaunt's family.
The next moment the door opened and Mordaunt appeared on the threshold, face to face with D'Artagnan. Porthos clapped his hands and the other two came running around. Mordaunt was livid, but he uttered no cry nor called for assistance.
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