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It would be worth while to make a collection of the judgments of eminent men in their generation respecting the Copernican or Pythagorean scheme. For if we may contradict the evidence of our senses in a matter of natural philosophy, 'a fortiori', or much more, may we be expected to do so in a matter of faith. I must remember Asgill's book.
Then, with a flicker and a girding of steel on steel, Asgill's sword flew from his hand, and at the same instant or so nearly at the same instant that the disarming and the thrust might have seemed to an untrained eye one motion Payton turned his wrist and his sword buried itself in Asgill's body. The unfortunate man recoiled with a gasping cry, staggered and sank sideways to the ground.
Fortunately Uncle Ulick was engrossed in the scene at the door, and the girl was outside. Neither heard. Asgill's mortification, as may be believed, was a hundred times deeper. But his quicker brain had taken in the thing and its consequences on the instant. And he stood silent. "She's found her way back!" The McMurrough exclaimed, recovering himself.
But to all her remonstrances The McMurrough had replied, with his usual churlishness, that the man was there on business did she want to recover her mare, or did she not? And she had found nothing more to say. But the most slavish observance on the guest's part, and some improvement in her brother's conduct which she might have rightly attributed to Asgill's presence had not melted her.
He was beginning to enjoy himself. "But you forget, I think, another little matter in the past that is known to me and that you would not like disclosed, I believe, sir." "You seem to have been raking things up, Colonel." "One must deal with a rogue according to his roguery," Colonel John retorted. Asgill's face grew dark. This was taking the buttons off with a vengeance.
Faith, and I'll spit him like a fowl!" In his turn he went on unsteadily to his room, disappeared within it, and closed the door. He took the candle with him, but from Asgill's open door, and from Flavia's, which stood ajar, enough light issued to illumine the passage faintly. Flavia and Asgill remained together. Her eyes met his. "Ah, why did I open my door?" she cried. "Why did I open my door?
Asgill's defence before the House of Commons shows that a very strained interpretation was placed upon the passages that gave offence. Let it suffice to quote one: "Stare at me as long as you will, I am sure that neither my physiognomy, sins, nor misfortune can make me so unlikely to be translated as my Redeemer was to be hanged."
Both Clinton and Carleton, his successor, reprobated the act of Lippencot with great severity, yet he was not given up, it being considered by a court-martial that he had only obeyed the orders of the Board of Associated Loyalists in New York. Great interest was made to save Asgill's life; his mother begged the interference of the Count de Vergennes, who wrote to Washington in her behalf.
He feared, if he did not know, that things were going ill. He saw the blighting shadow of Asgill begin to darken the scene. He believed that The McMurrough, unable to raise money on the estate since he had no title was passing under Asgill's control. And still he had not raised his voice.
"Willing or unwilling for what I care!" James answered brutally. Asgill did not hide his scorn. "An excellent brother!" he said. "And so, good-day to you. But have a care of old Ulick." "Do you think I'm a fool?" James shouted after him. It was well, perhaps, that the wind carried Asgill's answer across the water and wasted it on the dusk, which presently swallowed his retreating form.
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