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Beaufort were so good as to bring me to Dundalk, where my aunt had appointed to meet me; but her courage failed her about going over the Mountain road, and she sent Mr. Corry's chaise with hired horses. I foresaw we should have a battle about those horses, and so we had only a skirmish, in which I came off victorious!
"Dey's into de lot!" he exclaimed, when he came to the bars. "Dar's Pete Corry's ole straw hat lyin' by de stone-heap. Mus' hab been somefin' won'erful, or he'd nebber forgot his hat." That was an old woodchuck, of course, or he would not have been so large, and it may be he knew those boys as well as Quib did.
Betts, no doubt; the cause of all the trouble and talk in the neighborhood, and the occasion of Corry's outrageous letter to Lord William. "I think I ought to tell you," she said, stopping, with a look of perplexity, "that Corry is sure to come and talk to me about that story. I don't think I can prevent him." "Won't you hand him on to me? It is really not a story for your ears."
She could still hear the hall door closing behind him as he went off on wanderings abroad and in the East for what proved to be an absence of three years. Yet there were some things she could remember on the other side, dating also from Corry's Cambridge years.
When her old father died, one Easter vacation, and she, who was deeply attached to him, had arrived at Coryston after the funeral, worn out by misery and grief, there, suddenly, were Corry's arms open to her, and his almost timid kiss on her cheek.
She and his father in their annoyance and disappointment had refused to listen to his explanations, to let him defend himself indeed at all. His mother could see still Corry's strange hostile look at her, on his first arrival at home, as much as to say, "Nothing to expect from you!"
Corry for instance at his preparatory school, taking a loathing to his head master, demanding to be withdrawn, and stubbornly refusing to say why; the master's authority upheld by Corry's parents; vindictive punishment; followed by sudden illness on the boy's part in the midst of the commotion, and his return home, white-faced, silent, indomitable.
Corry's expression changed. The tension relaxed. "That's only fair," he said, indifferently. Then, perceiving the advancing man: "Ah, I see! here he is. I'm off. It's a bargain. I say nothing to mother and do my best to make Arthur hang himself. And I have it out with you my small sister! when we next meet."
The fierceness of Corry's anger had been indeed quietly expressed he had evidently schooled himself; but the words and phrases used by him had bitten into her mind.
Corry's attachment to this plain, sensible lady, of moderate opinions, had indeed astonished them enormously when they first became aware of it; but they were now used to it. "All right, Corry!" said Arthur, slapping his brother on the back. "The best chance of keeping you out of a madhouse! And a very nice woman! You don't expect me to chum with her father?"
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