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Ned Horsey became Sir Edward and Governor of the Isle of Wight; Strangways, a Red Rover in his way, who had been the terror of the Spaniards, was killed before Rouen; Tremayne fell at Havre, mourned over by Elizabeth; and Champernowne, one of the most gallant of the whole of them, was killed afterwards at Coligny's side at Moncontour.
"Then if you wouldn't mind, sir I don't want to hurry you and the young gentleman but it's my time, and if you will excuse me I'll say good-night." "Good-night, Mrs Champernowne; good-night, and pleasant rest to you," said Uncle Paul heartily, "and Yes? You were going to say something?" "If you wouldn't mind, sir, being sure that the candles are well out." "Oh, of course; of course."
I want to think what's to be done." The stairs creaked as Mrs Champernowne descended, and just then something caught Rodd's eye something bright and shiny, against the leaves of a big old gazetteer lying upon the side-table. Rodd uttered an ejaculation. "Oh!" he exclaimed. "Something more gone?" cried the Doctor. "No, uncle; there's your watch.
Squire Champernowne got buried with a proper flare-up, and we heard that Mr. Cranston Champernowne was heir to Woodcotes and the farms and all. And next time I was out and about on the river according to my custom, I heard the owl hollering, and I said to the owl: "You and me had our trouble for nought, my old dear, for 'tis very clear he wouldn't listen to us.
I felt so bold as a lion that night, for Squire Champernowne, of Woodcotes, had died at dawn, and the countryside was all in a commotion, and I knowed, what with talking and drinking in the pubs and running about all day, that not a keeper would be to work after dark.
Well, I soon came to myself afore this great discovery, and though, no doubt, the right and natural thing for me to have done, as a sporting sort of blade always open to the main chance, would have been to go to Lawrence Champernowne or his father, yet I hesitated; because, though I held a poacher's ideas about game and such like, I wasn't different from other folk in other matters.
"Dear, dear, dear, dear me, no, sir! Really, you quite fluster me with all those long words. Who ever heard that fried ham and eggs were bad for anybody?" "Then I tell you now, madam," shouted the doctor, "that " "Don't you take any notice, Mrs Champernowne," shouted Rodd. "It's only uncle's fun." "Wuff!" went Uncle Paul, with a snap like that of an angry dog. "Wuff!"
Within a short walk of the parsonage, over the brow of a wooded hill, is another house, which in the scenery of my childhood was an object no less familiar Dartington Hall, the home of the Champernowne family, with which, by marriage and otherwise, my father's was very closely connected.
Pray don't!" panted Mrs Champernowne, whom Nature had made middle-aged, round and plump. "You are taking away all my breath. But my neighbour's master says that he thinks they have made for Salcombe, where they will perhaps get aboard one of the orange boats and be put back in their own country."
"Fried, please, Mrs Champernowne; four for uncle and three for me."
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