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On returning to Thirsk over the Hambleton range of hills, we crossed thousands of acres of moor-land covered with heather in full bloom, looking like a purple sea. It was a splendid sight. My friend, who was an artist, stopped for a while to sketch one or two views of the scene.
If I go into my tailor's, I am told about his elegant figure, if into my shoemaker's, I hear of his small feet, if to Baylor's glove counter, some girl fitting my number seven will smilingly inform me that Lord Thirsk wears number four. And if you see him walking or driving, he always has some pretty woman at his side." "What by all that? His feet are fit for nothing but dancing.
Some way or other he felt sure the expense would not interfere with the things so vitally important to him. As he rode through the village he noticed that the Spinners' Hall was lit up and that there was a mixed sound of song and laughter and loud talking within and as Jane was at Thirsk he alighted at the door of the hall and went in.
"I have none," said Athos; "but D'Artagnan will discover one." D'Artagnan shrugged his shoulders and they proceeded. D'Artagnan hits on a Plan. As night closed in they arrived at Thirsk. The four friends appeared to be entire strangers to one another and indifferent to the precautions taken for guarding the king.
"His money would not buy Jane, if she did not like him; and she doesn't like him." "How do you know that, mother?" "I asked her. While we were drinking our tea, I asked her if she were going to make herself Lady Thirsk. She made fun of him. She mocked the very idea. She said he had no chin worth speaking of and no back to his head and so not a grain of forthput in him of any kind.
I found that a hired car from a garage at Thirsk was awaiting the lady, who, I learned from the young footman, had given her name as Madame Martoz. A quarter of an hour later she drove away without, so far as I could discern, having seen either Duperré or his wife.
If you are staying in the neighborhood could you call again at noon to-morrow, when we will go further into this tangled affair? We seem to be at cross-purposes to-night." "As you wish," replied the visitor, bowing with exquisite politeness. "I am staying at the Fleece Hotel, at Thirsk, and I have motored out here. To-morrow at noon I will call upon you."
Lucy knows there is a time to call and a time to bide at home." John took dinner with his mother, and as they were eating it, Mrs. Hatton said, "I suppose Jane is at Thirsk Hall tonight." "Yes," answered John. "I refused the invitation. I could not think of feasting and dancing with the cry of War and Famine at my door." "You are saying too much, John. Neither war nor famine can touch you."
"Come, gentlemen," cried Harrison, regardless of his illustrious captive, "let us be off." "Where do we sleep, colonel?" "At Thirsk," replied Harrison. "Parry," said the king, rising too, "my horse; I desire to go to Thirsk." "Egad!" said D'Artagnan to Athos, "your king has thoroughly taken me, and I am quite at his service."
This clergyman states that the report of the meeting at Thirsk, given by the York Herald of March 29, was "unquestionably by the Minority themselves." It "professes to be a sketch of what was said and done at the meeting of the North Riding Clergy.
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