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Then the elder seemed to become aware of the girl who stood before her. 'You are Rockett's elder daughter? Oh, the metallic voice of Lady Shale! How gratified she would have been could she have known how it bruised the girl's pride! 'Yes, my lady 'And why do you want to see me? 'I wish to apologise most sincerely to your ladyship for my behaviour of last evening
The village school could never have been held responsible for May Rockett's acquirements and views at the age of ten; nor could the High School in the neighbouring town altogether account for her mental development at seventeen.
Miss Rockett's talk was exactly what she liked, for it glanced at innumerable topics of the 'advanced' sort, was much concerned with personalities, and avoided all tiresome precision of argument. 'Are you making a stay here? asked the hostess. 'Oh! I am with my people in the country not far off, May answered in an offhand way. 'Only for a day or two.
Both pride and triumph have, of course, a place in the tumultuous feeling that surges through the hearts of all; yet as in every true man is born an instinct of compassion for a fallen foe, we prefer that the shout should go up in honor of our victory alone, and not because these have suffered. The boat touches the shore at Rockett's, the foot of Richmond.
"Whyn't they go whar they knows deserters is?" he asked. "Where are they? We heard they had a cave down on the river, and we were going there," declared the boys. "Down on the river? a cave? Ain' no cave down thar, without it's below Rockett's mill; fur I've hunted and fished ev'y foot o' that river up an' down both sides, an' 'tain' a hole thar, big enough to hide a' ole hyah, I ain' know."
Though Rockett's health broke down, and at length he could work hardly at all, their pleasant home was assured to the family; and at Sir Henry's death the nephew who succeeded him left the Rocketts undisturbed. But, under this new lordship, things were not quite as they had been.
She wrote widely and telegraphed far on their behalf till, armed with her letter of introduction, she drove them into that wilderness which is reached from an ash-barrel of a station called Charing Cross. They were to go to Rockett's the farm of one Cloke, in the southern counties where, she assured them, they would meet the genuine England of folklore and song.
Natural respect demanded that, at some fitting moment, and in a suitable manner, their daughter should present herself to her feudal superiors, to whom she was assuredly indebted, though indirectly, for 'the blessings she enjoyed. This was Mrs. Rockett's phrase, and the rheumatic, wheezy old gardener uttered the same opinion in less conventional language.
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