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True, I have sighted many a strange land in my time and have put up my glass for many an unknown shore; but yonder lay the home of Ruth Bellenden, and to-morrow's sun would tell me how it fared with her. I had sailed from England to learn as much. Now, Mr.
"You are determined then, my lord," she replied, "to run this desperate course with desperate men, in spite of your own better reason, in spite of your friends' entreaties, in spite of the almost inevitable ruin which yawns before you?" "Forgive me, Miss Bellenden; even your solicitude on my account must not detain me when my honour calls.
But I trust Evandale will continue quiet, though, to tell you truth, I believe you are the only one who can keep him so." "And how is it in my power?" said Miss Bellenden. "You can furnish him with the Scriptural apology for not going forth with the host, 'he has married a wife, and therefore cannot come."
"She being Ruth Bellenden no longer, but the wife of a gentleman with a name none but a foreigner can spell," added Mister Jacob; and then he went on: "Well, you surprise me very much, captain very much indeed. Matrimony is a choppy sea and queer things swim in it. But this this I had not looked to hear." I knew that this was only Mister Jacob's way, and continued my story.
Her brother soon arrived, with the chaplain and Jenny Dennison; but strong and vigorous remedies were necessary ere they could recall Miss Bellenden to sense and motion. Even then her language was wild and incoherent. "Press me no farther," she said to Lord Evandale, "it cannot be; Heaven and earth, the living and the dead, have leagued themselves against this ill-omened union.
He bowed with dignity to Miss Bellenden, who, though her language intimated that she well knew to whom she had been speaking, probably had not expected that he would justify himself with so much animation. She returned his salute, confused and in silence. Morton then rode forward to the head of the party. "Henry Morton!" exclaimed Major Bellenden, surprised at the sudden apparition.
It's the woman's part to play the capers, sir, and we poor mortal men to be took by them. Howsomever, since there was a fiddle in it, I've nothing more to say." We laughed at Mister Jacob's notion, and Peter Bligh said what it was in my heart to say: "Saving that if Ruth Bellenden needs a friend, she'll find twenty-six aboard this ship, to say nothing of the cook's boy and the dog.
The breakfast of Lady Margaret Bellenden no more resembled a modern dejune, than the great stone-hall at Tillietudlem could brook comparison with a modern drawing-room.
The lord-lieutenant of the country alone, who was of ducal rank, pretended to the magnificence of a wheel-carriage, but near it might be seen the erect form of Lady Margaret Bellenden on her sober palfrey, and her granddaughter; the fair-haired Edith appeared beside her aged relative like Spring, close to Winter.
I said, surely, that it was all up with Jasper Begg that journey; but odd to tell it, the dog gave over at last, and no one showed himself, neither was there any whistle from my company; and I was just making ready to throw another stone when the second light was turned out all of a sudden and, the long window being opened, Ruth Bellenden or, to be more correct, Mme.
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