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The tone of the reply was almost one of indifference. It suggested that the white man was making quite an unnecessary fuss. Allan Mowbray nodded. There was a look in his eyes that said far more than words. He held out his letter. The Indian took it. He turned it over. Then from his shirt pocket he withdrew a piece of buckskin.
Between Marney Abbey where he insisted for the present that Arabella should reside and Mowbray, Egremont passed his life for many months, until by some management which we need not trace or analyse, Lady Marney came over one day to the Convent at Mowbray and carried back Sybil to Marney Abbey, never again to quit it until on her bridal day, when the Earl and Countess of Marney departed for Italy where they passed nearly a year, and from which they had just returned at the commencement of this chapter.
Their enthusiasm rejoiced in both of these prospects, and they worked with an efficiency that left nothing to be desired. The dispositions at departure were Kars' secret. Nor were they known until the last moment. The warlike side of the expedition was dispatched in secret by an alternative and more difficult trail than the main communication with Fort Mowbray. It carried the bulk of equipment.
As for Lieutenant Dudleigh, he is, I feel sure, an honorable gentleman, and his associates are far, very far different from such as you and Mowbray. He is the friend of one whom I also regard now as my only friend one whom I never cease to pray to reach one whom I hope yet to find, and by his help escape from your infamous control, and punish you for all your villainy toward me and mine."
Mowbray felt a shudder run through his body, and turned to leave the spot. As he did so, he heard a voice which made his ears tingle, his heart sink, his cheek flush, utter in the most quiet manner, and without any exhibition of coldness or satire or affectation, the words: "Good evening, Mr. Mowbray. Will you not speak to me?"
Lord de Mowbray was well content to see Mr Hatton, a gentleman in whom he did not repose the less confidence, because his advice given him three years ago, respecting the writ of right and the claim upon his estate had proved so discreet and correct.
She turned from the table and passed out of the room. Ailsa Mowbray raised a pair of handsome, troubled eyes to the factor's face. Her confidence in this man was second only to the confidence she had always had in her husband's judgment. "Do you think it wise?" she demurred. "It's the only thing, ma'am," Murray replied seriously. "Jessie's dead right."
My mind is made up I choose short-swords, for I was always afraid of pistols." Mowbray looked with curiosity at his companion. "Afraid?" he said. "Yes, indeed," replied Hoffland; "you will not believe me, but I never could fire a pistol or a gun without shutting my eyes, and dropping it when it went off!" With which words Hoffland burst into laughter.
"Ay! the castle and manor of Mowbray and half the lordships round, to say nothing of this good town. The people are prepared to be his subjects; he must give up equality and be content with being a popular sovereign." "You jest my friend." "Then I speak truth in jest; sometimes, you know, the case."
As a matter of course, the history and character of Mr Mowbray excited, at least for a time, much speculation in the neighbourhood; and these speculations, as a matter of course, also, as we may venture to say, were not in general of the most charitable description.
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