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In reply to which summons Estelle came hurrying down the stairs with an innocent, expectant air. "If it isn't Doctor Bewick!" she exclaimed, without giving herself away by one false inflection. "Why, Doctor Bewick, this is simply too awfully nice! What are you doing over here? Who would have expected to see you?" "Tom," said Aurora, "I was never in my life so glad to see any one.
He rang a little bell on his desk. A boy about two years older than Rodney answered the summons. "Send Mr. James here," said the merchant. Mr. James, a sandy complexioned man, partially bald, made his appearance. "Mr. James," said the merchant, "I have taken this boy into my employ. I don't know if one is needed, but it is at the request of a friend.
Obeying his summons, onward we went, through a long, dark passage, and into a spacious hall up stairs, where he said they eat their people.
Fortunately, he was not compelled to reply to the self-accusing question, for there came a summons at his door, and an officer from headquarters entered to announce that, although diligent search and inquiry had been made in every conceivable quarter, not a word of information regarding Richard Morton could be obtained.
As regards my own person, I do not dread his vengeance; with confident courage I would at his first summons present myself in Spain, and boldly abide my sentence from his justice and goodness. I do not say this as if I doubted whether Count Egmont can assert the same, but he will act prudently in looking more to his own safety, and in removing suspicion from his actions.
IT was a little more than three weeks after that fearful night, when the chaise of Maltravers stopped at the cottage door the windows were shut up; no one answered the repeated summons of the post-boy. Maltravers himself, alarmed and amazed, descended from the vehicle: he was in deep mourning.
The officers, long irritated by the accumulation of their arrears, obeyed the summons, and evacuated one quarter after another.
They thirst to raise it in the scale of kingdoms to send down their names to posterity, as the founders of the Spanish monarchy the builders and supporters of a united throne, and so leave their children an undivided land. Surely this is a glorious project, one which every Spanish warrior must rejoice to aid. But fear not a speedy summons, love; much must be accomplished first.
This disgraceful panic added to the terror of the citizens of Edinburgh, and when, late in the afternoon, a summons to surrender came in from Prince Charles, the council could arrive at no decision, but sent a deputation to the prince asking for delay, hoping thereby that Cope's army would arrive in time to save them.
The cause of the poor minister was championed in particular by a certain Captain Ouseley, and the discussion of the matter on the bowling-green on the following day led to the suggestion that the Mayor should be sent for to explain his conduct. As he took no notice of a courteous message requesting his attendance, the Captain repeated the summons accompanied by a file of musketeers.
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