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The wind blew more furiously; the rain descended in torrents. Notwithstanding the protection my cloak afforded Aveline, I was sure that she would be wet through in a few minutes. As we were pushing on, I thought I saw on the side of a slight mound of earth, at a little distance, the roof of a cottage: I pointed it out to Madam Clough, and we pushed towards it.
Apprehensive of the consequences of the discovery which must inevitably be soon made, Aveline would have flown back to her own room, but was deterred, from the strange noises and confusion she heard within it.
Hereupon, the promoter, consigning Aveline to the care of a gentleman who advanced towards her for the purpose, and respectfully took her hand, stepped forward, and, removing his mask, confronted his enemy. Accusations. By this time a very different complexion had been imparted to the scene.
"And have you really consented to such an arrangement?" rejoined Aveline. "Is it possible you can sacrifice yourself thus?" "I am not to be sacrificed," returned the damsel quickly. "If it were so, I would never have agreed to the scheme. But I am told I shall get a fortune, and " "Oh, then the ten thousand marks are for you!" interrupted the other. "I now see the meaning of that part of the plan.
Stand forward, fair Mistress Aveline Calveley, and substantiate what I have just declared." Thus adjured, the maiden approached within a few paces of the Prince, and having made a lowly salutation, said, "All that your Highness has advanced concerning me is correct." "Enough, fair mistress," rejoined Charles. "How say you, Sirs," he continued, in a stern tone, to the two extortioners.
"Why do you call me 'ladyship' child?" said Aveline, without looking at her. "I have no right to any such title." "But you soon will have," replied the young tire-woman; "as the bride of Sir Francis, you must needs be my Lady Mitchell."
We had interrupted, I found, their usual evening service, and on our knocking they had scattered, not knowing who might be about to enter. Overton now explained to Aveline that he was her uncle, and asked her whether she would go and reside with a rich lady who would be her patroness. She looked at Dame Crugeot. "I cannot leave her," she said, "unless she wishes to part with me."
Allowing her to gratify her feelings of vanity by the contemplation of her pretty person for a few minutes, Aveline felt it necessary to recal her to her situation, and her own transformation into the tire-woman was speedily effected, Gillian's dress fitting her exactly.
He then leaned down, and bringing his lips almost close to the young knight's ear, whispered "What I said before the jailer was correct. I have been applied to by Sir Francis for a philter to be administered to Mistress Aveline, and I have promised it to him; but I am secretly in the service of Clement Lanyere, and will defeat the old usurer's villainous designs."
"I am glad to find the son of my old friend is not a slave to his appetites, as are most of the young men of this generation." With this they approached the board; and, a lengthy grace being pronounced by Hugh Calveley, Jocelyn sat down by the side of Aveline, scarcely able to believe in the reality of his own happiness so like a dream it seemed. A rash promise.
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