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"I am going to draw in my expenses, and settle down into a miser." "Moonshine!" cried Roland. "Is it moonshine, though? It is just a little bit of serious fact, Yorke. When lord chancellors turn against us and dash our hopes, we can't go on as though the exchequer had no bottom to it." "It will cost you nothing to come to Cator's.
Cator's, and Lady Spilsbury's, or Lady Angelica Headingham's conversazione Rosamond has a mixture of naivete and sprightliness that is new, and might take. If she had more courage, and would hazard more in conversation, if she had, in short, l'art de se faire valoir, one could hand her verses about, and get her forward in the bel-esprit line.
Arthur, of course, turned from the objectionable street, and continued his straightforward course. They were frequently hindered; the streets were always crowded at assize time, and acquaintances continually stopped them. Amongst others, they met Roland Yorke. "Are you coming round to Cator's, to-night?" he asked of Hamish. "Not I," returned Hamish, with his usual gay laugh.
From them Raleigh's fancy has been fired, and his appetite for learning quickened, while he is yet a daring boy, fishing in the gray trout-brooks, or going up with his father to the Dartmoor hills to hunt the deer with hound and horn, amid the wooded gorges of Holne, or over the dreary downs of Hartland Warren, and the cloud-capt thickets of Cator's Beam, and looking down from thence upon the far blue southern sea, wondering when he shall sail thereon, to fight the Spaniard, and discover, like Columbus, some fairy-land of gold and gems.
"Will you come to Cator's?" "No, thank you." "Then you are a muff!" retorted Roland, as he went on. It was dusk when they reached the cathedral. "I wonder whether the cloisters are still open!" Arthur exclaimed. "It will not take a minute to ascertain," said Hamish. "If not, we must go round." They found the cloisters still unclosed, and passed in. Gloomy and sombre were they at that evening hour.