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After all, she seldom wore the sapphire months might pass without its absence being noted by Amherst's careless eye; and if Wyant should pawn it, she might somehow save money to buy it back before it was missed. She went through these calculations with feverish rapidity; then she turned again to Wyant. "You won't come back ever?" "I swear I won't," he said.
Little Cicely had a cold Cicely Westmore, you know a small cousin of mine, by the way " he switched a rose-branch loftily out of her path, explaining, as she moved on, that Cicely was the daughter of Mrs. Amherst's first marriage to Richard Westmore. "That's the way I happened to see this Dr. Wyant. Bessy Mrs. Amherst asked him to stop to luncheon, after he'd seen the kid.
There will be no steamer for some days, and he may not get here till after Mr. Langhope." Mr. Lynde looked at her kindly, with grave eyes that proffered help. "This is terrible for you, Miss Brent." "Yes," Justine answered simply. "And Mrs. Amherst's condition ?" "It is about the same." "The doctors are hopeful?" "They have not lost hope." "She seems to keep her strength wonderfully."
Langhope's lameness as to his daughter's nerves, had proposed to turn back with him and drive to Mrs. Amherst's, where he might leave her to call while the others were completing their rounds. It was one of Mrs. Ansell's gifts to detect the first symptoms of ennui in her companions, and produce a remedy as patly as old ladies whisk out a scent-bottle or a cough-lozenge; and Mr.
"You ought to eat more." "No, no. I'm very well." She lifted her head, revived by the warm draught. The mechanical act of nourishment performed, her mind leapt back to the prospect of Amherst's return. A whole month before he reached Lynbrook! He had instructed her where news might find him on the way ... but a whole month to wait! She looked at Wyant, and they read each other's thoughts.
"Separate accounts?" Amherst echoed in genuine astonishment. "I should like my personal expenses to be under my own control again I have never been used to accounting for every penny I spend." The vertical lines deepened between Amherst's brows.
Before the fifteenth the whole had reached La Présentation, otherwise called Oswegatchie or La Galette, the seat of Father Piquet's mission. Near by was a French armed brig, the "Ottawa," with ten cannon and a hundred men, threatening destruction to Amherst's bateaux and whaleboats. Five gunboats attacked and captured her.
Of late, in certain moods, her maternal tenderness had been clouded by a sense of uneasiness in the child's presence, for Cicely was the argument most effectually used by Mr. Langhope and Mr. Tredegar in their efforts to check the triumph of Amherst's ideas.
Meanwhile Drucour had made several sorties against the British front, while Boishebert had attacked their rear with a few hundred Indians, Acadians, and Canadians. Boishebert's attack was simply brushed aside by the rearguard of Amherst's overwhelming force. The American Rangers ought to have defeated it themselves, without the aid of regulars.
Amherst's instructions to Rogers contained the following: "Remember the barbarities that have been committed by the enemy's Indian scoundrels. Take your revenge, but don't forget that, though those dastardly villains have promiscuously murdered women and children of all ages, it is my order that no women or children be killed or hurt."