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I have scarce quitted the afflicted family since I was summoned to them on Friday, since Sir Philip has no one else on whom to depend for comfort or counsel; and if I can obtain the services of Mr. Ellis from Portsmouth for a few Sundays, I shall ride with him to Oxford to assist in the choice of a tutor to go abroad with Mr. Archfield.
Archfield was very far from well, and nothing but her eagerness for amusement could have brought her hither, and of course she could not be left.
Charles's face flushed, and he made a step forward, but Robert gruffly answered: "No more than civility; but he had got Frenchified manners, and liked to tease Archfield." "Did they ever come to high words before you?" "No. They knew better." "Thank you, Mr. Oakshott," said the prisoner, as it was intimated that Mr. Cowper had finished.
Unluckily my personal charms are not easily disguised, so that I have had to lurk in the background, and only make my private investigations in the guise of my own ghost." "Then so it was you saved the dear little Philip?" said Anne. "The Archfield boy? I could not see a child sent to his destruction by that villain Sedley, whoever were his father, for he meant mischief if ever man did.
"Mayhap he would be sensible of the disadvantage, if he evened himself with some of my reasonable countrymen." "Do you mean that for an insult, sir?" exclaimed Sedley Archfield, striding forward. "As you please," said Peregrine. "To me it had the sound of compliment." "Oh la! they'll fight," cried Mrs. Archfield. "Don't let them! Where's the Doctor? Where's Sir Philip?"
Therefore the good lady did her best to repress these dangerous tendencies by making the girl sit on the back seat with two maids, and uttering long lectures on humility, modesty, and discretion which made the blood of the sea-captain's daughter boil with indignation. Yet she always carried with her the dread of being pursued and called upon to accuse Charles Archfield of Peregrine's death.
The grandfather was indeed more shocked at the danger and the vulgarity of the sport than its cruelty, but Philip had received his first flogging, and his cousin had been so sharply rebuked that to the great relief of Anne and of Lady Archfield he had not since appeared at Fareham House. The morrow would be Philip's seventh birthday, a stage which would take him farther out of Anne's power.
"We shall be glad to be away from Winchester, for while Peregrine Oakshott torments slyly, Sedley Archfield loves to frighten us openly, and to hurt us to see how much we can bear, and if Charley tries to stand up for us, Sedley calls him a puny wench, and a milksop, and knocks him down.
They had traversed the graveyard of the Cathedral, and were passing through a narrow archway known as the Slype, between the south- western angle of the Cathedral and a heavy mass of old masonry forming part of the garden wall of the present abode of the Archfield family, when suddenly both children stumbled and fell, while an elfish peal of laughter sounded behind them.
Fellowes's parlour they found an unexpected guest, no other than Mrs. Oakshott. 'Gadding about' not being the fashion of the Archfield household, Anne had not seen the lady for several years, and was agreeably surprised by her appearance.
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