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The archbishop had suffered the rumour of Gloucester's attachment to the Lady Anne to get abroad, and the young prince's return from the North was anxiously expected by the gossips of the day. It was on this occasion that Warwick showed his gratitude for Marmaduke Nevile's devotion.
Peradventure a time may come when they who seek the roof of Adam Warner may find less homely cheer, a less rugged habitation, for look you!" he exclaimed suddenly, with a burst of irrepressible enthusiasm and laying his hand on Nevile's arm, as, through all the smoke and grime that obscured his face, flashed the ardent soul of the triumphant Inventor, "look you! since you have been in this house, one of my great objects is well-nigh matured, achieved.
These last darted round and round the riders, holding out their instruments for largess, and retorting, with laugh and gibe, the disdainful look or sharp rebuke with which their salutations were mostly received. Suddenly, as the company, two by two, paced up the street, Sibyll uttered a faint exclamation, and strove to snatch her hand from the Nevile's grasp.
There was no chimney except in Nevile's room, and in that appropriated to the forge. And then she held the ewer and basin to him, while, with the docility of a child, he washed the smoke-soil from his hands and face.
No, thou mistakest, Montagu is ambitious, I but proud. Montagu ever seeks to be higher than he is, I but assert the right to be what I am and have been; and my pride, sweet wife, is a part of my love for thee. It is thy title, Heiress of Warwick, and not my father's, that I bear; thy badge, and not the Nevile's, which I have made the symbol of my power.
And thus, from innocence itself, there was a fearlessness, a freedom, a something endearing and familiar in her manner, which might have turned a wiser head than Marmaduke Nevile's.
There was no chimney except in Nevile's room, and in that appropriated to the forge. And then she held the ewer and basin to him, while, with the docility of a child, he washed the smoke-soil from his hands and face.
He had introduced "the chap" into the Percival household, and it was he, too, who had not introduced the fact of his unhappy marriage. "Took it all for granted thought they knew it forgot they didn't belong to that gang your gang, my gang, Nevile's gang. Rotten of me, my dear, but there you are." Mrs. John understood him to feel more contrite than he appeared.
He'd take it from me better than from anyone else like Senhouse." "Mr. Senhouse would never touch him," she was sure. He dropped in Chevenix's estimation immediately. "Quaker, eh? I didn't know that." Sanchia explained. "He can't be changed in those sort of things. He would only use force against wild beasts." "Well," cried Chevenix, "what do you think Nevile's going to be?
His face was far less handsome than Marmaduke Nevile's, but infinitely more expressive, both of intelligence and command, the features straight and sharp, the complexion clear and pale, and under the bright gray eyes a dark shade spoke either of dissipation or of thought. "What ailest thou, maiden, weepest thou some faithless lover?
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