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Updated: May 31, 2025
"But to your profit, my Lord James of Avondale," commented the hollow voice of Pierre de l'Hopital, speaking over his master's head. The face of James Douglas flushed quickly. "No, messire," he answered with a swift heat. "Not to my profit to my infinite loss. For I loved my cousin. I honoured him, and for his sake would have fought to the death.
Ever since he could remember, he had heard the boys of Avondale speak as if he were a gypsy, and as if that fact explained every bit of mischief that he did. He had always felt that, being a gypsy, there was no chance for him in any walk of life, and that, therefore, there was simply no use to try. Now a new light had dawned, and with it came hope, cheer, determination, to succeed.
The spear of James of Avondale at the same time taking him fair in the middle of his shield, the double assault caused the young man to fall heavily from his saddle, so that the crash sounded dully over the field. "Treachery! Treachery! A foul false stroke! A knave's device!" cried nine-tenths of those who were crowded about the barriers. "Stop the fight! Kill the Frenchman!"
Little Rose Atherton sat on the lower step of the three broad ones that led down from the piazza, and she wondered if there were, in all the world, a lovelier spot than Avondale. "And we live in the finest part of Avondale," she said, continuing her thoughts aloud. "Tho' wherever Uncle John is, seems better than anywhere else."
And where the boundary fence of Mondunbarra and Avondale crosses the plain, is seen a fair example of the mirage that phenomenon so vaguely apprehended in regions outside its domain, and so little noticed where repetition has made it familiar.
"I bid you remember," he said, speaking southland English, as he was wont to do in moments of excitement, "I bid you remember, sirrah, that I am the Earl of Douglas and Avondale, Justicer of Scotland and your father." William Douglas bowed, respectful but unmoved. "My lord," he said, "I forget nothing. I do not judge you. You are in authority over our house.
She thought it very smart to go over to the station, walk up and down the platform waiting for the train, and then, seated in the car, offer her ticket to the conductor when he came down the aisle. "The Avondale girls and boys just walk to school, but I have to take a train!" she said to herself one morning, as she hurried toward the station.
On October 18 the ship Avondale Castle had been arrested by the English gunboat Partridge and ordered to return under escort to Durban. The British cruiser Tartar there took over £25,000 in gold which, it was alleged, had been intended for the Transvaal Government.
"This is our summer home," he continued, "and a fine summer place it is, but Rose, little girl, we're to spend the coming Winter at Avondale." It had been very exciting! Before closing "The Cliffs," those treasures that Uncle John held dearest were carefully packed to be sent to the new home, and then, in the big, luxurious car, they had motored to Avondale.
Miss Avondale, although she had received marked attention from Sir William, returned to America in the same ship. "I really don't think she was quite as devoted to the poor child as all that, you know," she continued with innocent frankness, "and Cousin Bill was certainly most kind to them both, yet there really seemed to be some coolness between them after the child's death.
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