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The Laird of Avenel, a zealous partisan of the Stuarts, was proscribed after the battle of Culloden, and upon the eve of going into exile intrusts Gaveston, his steward, with the care of the castle, and of a considerable treasure which is concealed in a statue called the White Lady. The traditions affirmed that this lady was the protectress of the Avenels.
It is very unfortunate you should have seen a letter never meant for your eye, and containing allusions to a secret you were never to have known. But if I tell you more, will you promise me, on your word of honour, that you will hold the confidence sacred from Mrs. Fairfield, the Avenels, from all? I myself am pledged to conceal a secret, which I can only share with you on the same condition."
And besides, one of us Avenels ought to be in parliament; and if I have not the time and learning, and so forth, and he has, why, it stands to reason that he should be the man.
And so, with this long preface, I turn suddenly from the Randals and the Egertons, and the Levys, Avenels, and Peschieras, from the plots and passions of practical life, and drop the reader suddenly into one of those obscure retreats wherein Thought weaves, from unnoticed moments, a new link to the chain that unites the ages.
"In the first place, I have met with a relation of of the Avenels." "Indeed! Whom, Richard Avenel?" "Richard Richard who is he? Oh, I remember, the wild lad who went off to America; but that was when I was a mere child." "That Richard Avenel is now a rich, thriving trader, and his marriage is in this newspaper, married to an Honourable Mrs. M'Catchley.
"I believe the Avenels have only two of their children alive still, their daughter who married Mark Fairfield, and a son who went off to America?" "Ah, but he made his fortune there and has come back." "Indeed! I'm very glad to hear it. He has settled at Lansmere?" "No, Sir. I hear as he's bought a property a long way off.
No; I have never forgotten your kindness, and always regretted our estrangement." "That is well said; give us your fist again. Let me look at you quite the gentleman, I declare still so good-looking too. We Avenels always were a handsome family. "Good-by, Baron Levy. Need not wait for me; I am not going to run away. I shall see you again." "Very well, sir, very well.
"I believe the Avenels have only two of their children alive still, their daughter who married Mark Fairfield, and a son who went off to America?" "Ah, but he made his fortune there and has come back." "Indeed! I'm very glad to hear it. He has settled at Lansmere?" "No, Sir. I hear as he's bought a property a long way off.
"If, therefore," said Dick, "two of us cannot come in, and one must retire, leave it to me to arrange with the Committee that you shall be the one to persist. Oh, never fear but what all scruples of honour shall be satisfied. I would not for the sake of the Avenels have a word said against their representative."
And my wife hem! that is to be has great connections, and you shall marry well; and oh, the Avenels will hold their heads with the highest, after all! Damn the aristocracy! we clever fellows will be the aristocrats, eh?" Richard rubbed his hands.
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