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I was born there. But father, none the less, was John Armytage's brother." He looked at her with increased interest, marking the straight, supple lines of her, and the handsome, high-bred face. His lordship, remember, never lacked an appreciative eye for a fine woman. "So you're Jack Armytage's niece. Give me news of him, my dear." She did so.
'An' ef Zack ain't shavin' the capting, I guess I'm a Dutchman, remarked a neighbouring settler to Robert. 'I reckon a matter of two year'll shave him out o' Daisy Burn, clear and clean. But its owner had some brilliant scheme in the future for lifting him free of every embarrassment. Rainbow tints illuminated all prospective pages of Captain Armytage's life.
Miss Armytage's own notions of what might be fit and proper for her virginal ears were by no means coincident with Lady O'Moy's.
But that did not prevent Captain Armytage's being a very agreeable and well-informed companion nevertheless. 'Granted that "Canada" is a pretty name, said he; 'but it's Spanish more than native. "Aca nada," nothing here, said the old Castilian voyagers, when they saw no trace of gold mines or other wealth along the coast. That's the story, at all events.
Holt, and asked for the means of redeeming the mortgage, by paying Captain Armytage's debt to Bunting, which was not half the value of the farm. The gallant officer was not obliged for his friend's officiousness. He had brought himself to anticipate the move to Montreal most pleasurably, notwithstanding the great pecuniary loss to himself.
"That is fortunate, indeed," exclaimed Lawrence, turning round suddenly, and encountering Colonel Armytage's gaze fixed on him. "Why is it fortunate?" asked the colonel. "Because he is, I opine, a very brave officer, as your daughter says, good sir," answered Lawrence. And away he shuffled down the steps. There was a pause of some duration.
The wedding was hurried on by Captain Armytage's appointment to a frigate on the coast of Southern America, where he had to join at once, in lieu of a captain invalided home; and Gillian accepted the arrangements, which would take her to Rio, "as much a matter of course," said her aunt, "as if she had been a wife for ten years." Her uncle, Mr.
There are private theatricals and dances, occasionally an official ball, and we are promised picnics and water-parties now that the summer is here." "And in the autumn, ma'am, we may find you a little hunting," his lordship promised them. "Plenty of foxes; a rough country, though; but what's that to an Irishwoman?" He caught the quickening of Miss Armytage's eye.
Indeed, it is for your sake alone, Ronald, that I should prize it." Ronald pressed her to his heart. "Thanks, thanks, generous one," he whispered. "We may yet obtain ample fortune to satisfy our wishes. Of that I have little fear." The tears came into Mrs Armytage's eyes when Ronald wished her farewell.
It isn't as if you cared very much for either of them. If you did, if you loved Dick or Ned, you might realise what I am suffering." Miss Armytage's eyes looked straight ahead into the thick green foliage, and there was an odd smile, half wistful, half scornful, on her lips. "Yet I have done what I could," she said presently. "I have spoken to Lord Wellington about them both."
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