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Thus accoutred, he was hoisted, at his own earnest request, upon the quietest horse of the party; and, prompted and supported by old Gudyill the butler, as his front file, he passed muster tolerably enough; the sheriff not caring to examine too closely the recruits of so well-affected a person as Lady Margaret Bellenden.
I pray you to understand I have my people under arms to take and intercept all fugitives, and have already several prisoners, and so forth. Subscribed Basil Olifant You know the fellow by name, I suppose?" "A relative of Lady Margaret Bellenden," replied Morton, "is he not?"
To you, dearest Edith forgive me, I should have said Miss Bellenden, but misfortune claims strange privileges to you I have owed the few happy moments which have gilded a gloomy existence; and if I am now to lay it down, the recollection of this honour will be my happiness in the last hour of suffering." "But is it even thus, Mr Morton?" said Miss Bellenden.
"It will be in vain, Miss Bellenden; but I will execute your commission;" and she left the room as formally as she had entered it, and informed her brother Miss Bellenden was so much recovered as to propose coming downstairs ere he went away. "I suppose," she added pettishly, "the prospect of being speedily released from our company has wrought a cure on her shattered nerves."
Leave him to the law do not repay my hospitality by shedding men's blood on the threshold of my doors!" "Colonel Grahame," said Major Bellenden, "you must answer this violence. Don't think, though I am old and feckless, that my friend's son shall be murdered before my eyes with impunity. I can find friends that shall make you answer it."
"But Major Bellenden," said Morton, "may surrender, in order to preserve your life." "Never, while there is one man to defend the battlement, and that man has one crust to eat. I know his gallant resolution, and grieved should I be if he changed it for my sake."
This Miles Bellenden hath means to subsist his garrison for a month." "This is not the case," answered Morton; "we know his stores are hardly equal to a week's consumption."
Lady Margaret Bellenden heard this exposition of Scripture with the greatest possible indignation, as well as surprise.
"Pooh! pooh! she's only sick of the soldiers," answered Major Bellenden. "She's not accustomed to see one acquaintance led out to be shot, and another marching off to actual service, with some chance of not finding his way back again. She would soon be used to it, if the civil war were to break out again." "God forbid, brother!" said Lady Margaret.
But if I have given way, for the last time, to a sudden and irresistible burst of feeling, it is my consolation, Lady Emily, that your brother knows the cause, that I have hid nothing from him, and that he at least is not apprehensive of finding in Edith Bellenden a wife undeserving of his affection.
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