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This man had, about a fortnight ago, been of essential service to our hero, when a vicious horse, which he was endeavouring to cure of some ugly tricks, had nearly terminated his mortal career. "Why are you crying so, my boy?" asked Vivian of a little Conyers, who was sobbing bitterly at the floor. He was answered only with desperate sobs.
His chief counsellors were the brothers Horry, and Postelle, all like himself descended from Huguenot stocks. He was a sort of knight-errant in the brigade, and his behavior seemed not unfrequently dictated by a passion for chivalrous display. An anecdote, in connection with Conyers, is told, which will serve to show what was the spirit of the patriotic damsels of the revolution.
Conyers did not take much to heart the teachings of her Bible; but it had at least defined for her one point of view: all creatures worth saving had been saved in pairs. Bitter as were those years for Harriet, others more humiliating followed. The maternal attempts having been discontinued, she, desperate with slights and insults, had put forth some efforts of her own.
After the termination of the short siege of Athlone, the troop of Captain Davenant were despatched to join the army near Limerick, and, on their arrival there, were ordered to take up their quarters at the house of a Protestant gentleman named Conyers, four miles from the town on the Limerick side of the river.
"As I say, I don't know how the succession runs in this particular instance. There are, as you are aware, several peeresses in their own rights twenty-four or five, at least. Some are very ancient peerages. I know that three Furnivale and Fauconberg and Conyers go right back to the thirteenth century; three others Beaumont, Darcy da Knayth, and Zorch of Haryngworth date from the fourteenth.
An answer had been received from Mr. Conyers, on the same afternoon that his wife's letter was sent to him.
The telephone rang in the next room and a servant summoned Geraldine. "Captain Granet wishes to speak to Miss Conyers," he announced. Geraldine left her place at once and hastened into the library. She took up the receiver. "Is that you, Captain Granet?" she asked. "I felt that I must ring you up," he declared, "to congratulate you, Miss Conyers, upon your brother's exploit.
"A terrible result that, Mrs. Sartoris," said Conyers, when the judge's decision was made known: "not only have we lost our money, but there will be no holding Montague at all now he has lowered the colours of the Aldershot champion." "Well," replied the lady, "I don't think Mr. Montague can crow much over his victory."
Norris was at once informed that in view of the attack which he apprehended, his garrison should be strengthened by five hundred men under Sir Conyers Clifford from certain companies in Flushing, and that other reinforcements should be sent from the English troops in Normandy.
Granet agreed, glancing at his watch. "This is absolutely ripping! We shall be down there by one o'clock. Why is this to be Conyers' last day for entertaining?" "I don't know," she answered indifferently. "Some Admiralty regulation, I suppose." He sighed. "After all," he declared, "I am not sure whether I chose the right profession. There is so much that is mysterious about the Navy.
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