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"The Jews!" said I, both in the same breath, but in very different tones. "Jews, did I say?" replied Mowbray: "Jew, I should have said." "Mr. Montenero?" cried I. "Montenero! Can you think of nothing but Mr. Montenero, whom you've never seen, and never will see?" "Thank you for that, my lord," said my mother; "one touch from you is worth a hundred from me."
Once upon a time Kings held their Courts and summoned Parliaments at Coventry; four hundred years ago the Guilds of Coventry recruited, armed, clothed, and sent forth six hundred stout fellows to take part in the Wars of the Roses; at Coventry the lists were pitched for Mary of Lancaster, and Phillip Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, to decide in single combat their counter- charges before the soon-to-be-dethroned Richard II.
He was able to pause in the door while the match burned and his mind raced. There leaped to the eye of his imagination the two stricken figures he had seen slinking from the house, the weeping of the woman, the muffled tap of the man's crutch. There followed, in an inevitable sequence, the memory of them in their torment as they sat at meat with Tom Mowbray.
"I should think not," said Hatton. "It would belie our nature to believe so." "And where are these documents?" "In the muniment room of Mowbray castle." "Hah!" exclaimed Morley in a prolonged tone. "Kept closely by one who knows their value, for they are the title deeds not of his right but of his confusion." "And how can we obtain them?" "By means more honest than those they were acquired by."
"No; unless Shakspeare is study." "It is a very hard study, but not the sort which I would have you apply yourself to. What were you reading?" "'As You Like It," said Hoffland; "and I was really charmed with the fair Rosalind." "Yes," said Mowbray indifferently; "a wonderful character, such as Shakspeare only could draw." "And as good as she was wild as maidenly as she was pure."
These journeys of his brought, as a result, a rush of business to the Fort, and an added life to the Mission. Then there was the mother, and her now grown children, waiting to welcome the man who was their all. But Allan Mowbray had not yet returned, and Jessie, young, impulsive, devoted, was living in a fever of apprehension such as her experienced mother never displayed.
Your family will live, and ennobled. The Fitz-Warenes Lords Valence will yield to none in antiquity; and as to rank, as long as Mowbray Castle belongs to them, the revival of the earldom is safe at the first coronation, or the first ministry that exists with a balanced state of parties." "That is the right view of the case," said Lord de Mowbray; "and what do you advise?"
"Now, was not I right when I told you, Harrington, that I would introduce you to the most celebrated Jew in all England, in all Christendom, in the whole civilized world?" No one better than Mowbray knew the tone of enthusiastic theatric admiration in which the heroes of the stage like, or are supposed to like, to be addressed. Macklin, who was not asy to please, was pleased.
The face of Mowbray showed wide-open eyes at him from the pillow. The bedclothes lay across his chest; one arm hung over the edge of the bed with the hand loose and limp. And above his neck his night-clothes and the linen of the bed were sodden and dreadful with blood that had flowed from a frightful wound in the throat.
His great body in its thick pea-jacket nearly filled it up. Talk was spasmodic. Kars had little enough inclination, and the others seemed to have exhausted thought upon the work of preparations. Kars' thoughts were far away at the bald knoll of Fort Mowbray, and the little Mission nestling at its foot.
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