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Had she wished to rid herself of everything which had belonged to her tyrants? The commandant heard the whole story thoughtfully. "Wretched man!" said he, "and he has a wife and children in Seville." "A wife and children?" said Amyas; "and I heard him promise marriage to the Indian girl." That was the only hint which gave a reason for his death.
"Warm? perhaps you will warm my heart for me, then." "Would God I could do it, mother!" said Amyas, half reproachfully. Mrs. Leigh looked up in his face, and burst into a violent flood of tears. "Sinful! sinful that I am!" "Blessed creature!" cried Amyas, "if you speak so I shall go mad. Mother, mother, I have been dreading this meeting for months.
When it was presented to the bridegroom he put up his hand for a moment as if to push back the shade, but, in dread of admitting even a feeble ray of light, gave up the attempt, took the pen and wrote Amyas Belamour where the clergyman pointed. Aurelia could hardly see what she was doing, and knew she had written very badly.
Next, with a hideous yell, leapt into the centre of the space a personage who certainly could not have complained if any one had taken him for the devil, for he had dressed himself up carefully for that very intent, in a jaguar-skin with a long tail, grinning teeth, a pair of horns, a plume of black and yellow feathers, and a huge rattle. "Here's the Piache, the rascal," says Amyas.
And so he ran on all supper-time, hardly allowing Amyas to get a word in edge-ways; but heaping him with coarse flattery, and urging him to drink, till after the cloth was drawn, and the two left alone, he grew so outrageous that Amyas was forced to take him to task good-humoredly.
Arden, since he came forth with direct intent to engross Harriet; and Sir Amyas wandered towards Betty, apologising for the interruption. "It is a rare occasion," said she as her pupil scampered away. "Happy child, to be taught by so good a sister," said the young baronet, regretfully. "Your young half-brothers and sisters must be of about the same age," said Betty.
"True, but I am a lone mother; and one that has no heart just now but to go home and pray." And so Mrs. Leigh went onward up the lane, and spent all that night in listening between her prayers to the thunder of the surge, till it was drowned, long ere the sun rose, in the thunder of the storm. And where is Amyas on this same Christmas afternoon?
Perhaps we may move that way ourselves some day, Amyas." "What do you mean by that strange talk?" "Only that the ocean follows the primum mobile of the heavens, and flows forever from east to west. Is there anything so strange in my thinking of that, when I am just come from a party where we have been drinking success to Westward-ho?" "And much good has come of it!
Sir Amyas is certainly the prettiest behaved physician breathing, with the sweetest assortment of tittle-tattle, with an inexhaustible fund of anecdotes and compliments for the great, and an intimate acquaintance with the fair and fashionable. He has also the happiest art of speaking a vast deal, and yet saying nothing; seeming to give an opinion, without ever committing himself.
As has been hinted, there was no love lost between Admiral Winter and Amyas; and Amyas might certainly have reported himself in a more ceremonious manner. So Winter, whom Amyas either had not seen, or had not chosen to see, asked him pretty sharply, "What the plague he had to do with bringing dead men into camp?" "If he's dead, it's not my fault.
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