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The longer Alban resisted, the more surely he lost ground in the general estimation. Cecilia was disappointed; Emily was grieved; Mr. Wyvil's favorable opinion began to waver; Francine was disgusted. When dinner was over, and the carriage was waiting to take the shepherd back to his flock by moonlight, Mirabel's triumph was complete.
The forces of the two states met about five miles from Rome, prepared to decide the fate of their respective kingdoms; for, in these times, a single battle was generally decisive. The two armies were for some time drawn out in array, awaiting the signal to begin, both chiding the length of that dreadful suspense, when an unexpected proposal from the Alban general put a stop to the onset. 3.
Alban had but an instant to glance at the beautiful façade when a young butler opened the door to them and ushered them into a vast hall, panelled to the ceiling in oak and dimly lighted by Gothic windows of excellent stained glass. Here a silence, amazing in its profundity, permitted the very ticking of the clocks to be heard.
"But the old ancient true name of this place that we have our foot-soles on, and that our bones are made of, will be Alban. It was Alban they called it when our forefathers will be fighting for it against Rome and Alexander; and it is called so still in your own tongue that you forget." "Troth," said I, "and that I never learned!" For I lacked heart to take her up about the Macedonian.
Its halls were small, and lined, not with marble, after the luxurious fashion of many patrician palaces, but with the common Alban stone, and the pattern of the pavement was plain and simple. Nor when he succeeded Lepidus in the pontificate would he relinquish this private dwelling for the regia or public residence assigned that honorable office.
If it were the man, it would be the priest known by the name of Alban the fellow whom my lord's man had so much distrusted at Fotheringay, and whom he had seen again in Derby a while later. Next, if it were this man, he would almost certainly make for Padley if he were disturbed. Mr. Audrey had bitten his nails a while as he listened to this, and then had suddenly consented.
"Shall I say you can't see anybody?" she asked, before leaving the room. "Yes! yes!" Emily heard the door opened heard low voices in the passage. There was a momentary interval. Then, Mrs. Ellmother returned. She said nothing. Emily spoke to her. "Is it a visitor?" "Yes." "Have you said I can't see anybody?" "I couldn't say it." "Why not?" "Don't be hard on him, my dear. It's Mr. Alban Morris."
It opened with the waking at dawn of the herdsman Caeculus and his little son, in their round thatched cottage on the ridge of Aricia, beneath the Alban Mount.
"He regrets to say he is otherwise engaged for the present," Francine replied with spiteful politeness. "Don't let me interrupt the conversation. Who is this Miss Jethro, whose name is on everybody's lips?" Alban could keep silent no longer. "We have done with the subject," he said sharply. "Because I am here?" "Because we have said more than enough about Miss Jethro already."
"Have they ever told you anything about us, Alban?" she continued, "did you ever hear any stories which I should not hear?" "Only from Captain Forrest himself; he told me that he was engaged to you. That was when I went to the Savoy Hotel." "All those weeks ago. And you never mentioned it?" "Was it any business of mine? What right had I to speak to you about it?" She flushed deeply.
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