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It suffices that from the marriage of Edward Musgrave and Cynthia Allonby sprang this well-known American family, prolific of brave gentlemen and gracious ladies who in due course, and in new lands, achieved their allotted portion of laughter and anguish and compromise, very much as their European fathers and mothers had done aforetime.
"Heavens!" said Miss Allonby, and absent-mindedly drew aside her skirts; "one would think you about to make a declaration." Mr. Erwyn sat down beside her, "I have been known," said he, "to do such things." The divan was strewn with cushions in the Oriental fashion. Miss Allonby, with some adroitness, slipped one of them between her person and the locality of her neighbor. "Oh!" said Miss Allonby.
'Shall I stay with you, father? I would like to 'stremely. 'No, my boy; I'm going out of town for the day. 'Do take me with you. Are you going to picnic somewhere? Mr. Allonby was silent for a minute, then he said: 'I am going to see mother's grave, sonny. I want to put a stone over it. Can you think of a text she would like written upon it? Bobby's face was a picture of sweet seriousness.
So the forsaken lover has his choice of consolation in wine or in that dearer danger, woman. I have tried both, Anastasia. And I tell you " He dropped her hands as though they had been embers. Lord Rokesle had come quietly into the hall. "Why, what's this?" Lord Rokesle demanded. "Simon, you aren't making love to Lady Allonby, I hope? Fie, man! remember your cloth."
These events of his past life, with the significant results that they brought about, pass drowsily through Thomas Idle's memory, while he lies alone on the sofa at Allonby and elsewhere, dreaming away the time which his fellow-apprentice gets through so actively out of doors.
"Ay, ay, neighbour," said Gaffer Tramp, "seest thou how one witch will speak for t'other Scots or English, the same to them." His companion shook his head, and replied in the same subdued tone, "Ay, ay, when a Sark-foot wife gets on her broomstick, the dames of Allonby are ready to mount, just as sure as the by-word gangs o' the hills, If Skiddaw hath a cap, Criffel, wots full weel of that."
We begin at a time when George the Second was permitting Ormskirk and the Pelhams to govern England, and the Jacobites had not yet ceased to hope for another Stuart Restoration, and Mr. In fine, we begin toward the end of March, in the year 1750, when Lady Allonby and her brother, Mr. Henry Heleigh, of Trevor's Folly, were the guests of Lord Rokesle, at Stornoway Crag, on Usk.
In any ordinary falling out of affairs they would ride unhindered to Teignmouth, and thence to Allonby Shaw; they counted fully upon doing this; but I, knowing Beatris, who was waiting-maid to the Lady Adeliza, and consequently in the plot, to be the devil's own vixen, despite an innocent face and a wheedling tongue, was less certain.
'If we are quick we shall get home by nine o'clock, True, Mr. Allonby said as he wrapped a heavy rug round Bobby and tucked him in by his side in the car. Five minutes afterwards they were going swiftly up the high-road. To Bobby it all seemed a dream. He grasped Nobbles tightly, but no fear assailed him.
If you can write me a little letter I shall be so glad to get it. Your Uncle Mortimer has just asked me to go for a ride with him, so I must stop. Your very loving friend, ISOBEL GRANTHAM. 'Well, said Mr. Allonby, 'that letter comes from a nice woman, Bobby. Who is she? And how many people have you set to work looking for your missing father? Bobby looked up gravely.
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