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Updated: May 31, 2025
"You need not be in such a hurry, especially this evening," said Lily. "Why especially this evening?" "Because it will be the last. Sit down again, Dr Crofts. I've got a little speech to make to you. I've been preparing it all the morning, and you must give me an opportunity of speaking it." "I'll come the day after to-morrow, and I'll hear it then."
I had not, at that time, explained to her that Hamilton and Churchill were two hundred yards behind Crofts and his friends when the robbery was committed, having felt that it was just as well not to make Hamilton's innocence too clear. We of the court considered ourselves exempt from processes of this sort while in the palace.
For two months after that scene at Fotheringay she had refused to see Burghley, and would consult no one but Sir James Crofts and her Spanish-tempered ladies. She knew that Spain now intended that she should betray the towns in the Low Countries, yet she was blind to the infamy which it would bring upon her. She left her troops there without their wages to shiver into mutiny.
That his parents or himself might enjoy all the apples, he had under the Latin dedication, placed a simple English menace of steel traps and spring guns. I still advanced through a pleasant scene of trees and cottages, of rich grassy crofts, with cattle lying luxuriously in them, and amid a hush of repose, indicative of a monastic scene.
Each longed to be tender and affectionate to the other, each in a different way; but neither knew how to throw any tenderness into this first greeting. "So you're staying at the Manor House," said Lily. "Yes; I'm staying there. Your uncle and Bell came yesterday afternoon." "Have you heard about Bell?" said Mrs Dale. "Oh, yes; Mary told me. I'm so glad of it. I always liked Dr Crofts very much.
The captain says there is nothing to prevent our going out, now; and as the Spanish squadron may be back any day, we might have to run the gauntlet to get out, if we lost the present chance. So he is not going to waste an hour. "Crofts has already sold the grain, and discharged it. The hull is worth but little; and the captain has sold her, as she stands, to a trader for two hundred pounds.
Crofts, and a safe journey to you. I needn't tell you to keep a sharp lookout." "You may trust us for that, sir. We have no desire to rot in one of their prisons, till the end of the war." The captain's gig took him back to the Antelope. The weather sheets of the fore-staysail were eased off, and the square sails swung round.
How it had been felt by all concerned that the fortunes of the Small House were in the ascendant, felt, indeed, with some trepidation, but still with much inward triumph. How great had been the occasion, forcing Lily almost to lose herself in wonderment at what had occurred! There was no great occasion now, and no wonderment. No one, unless it was Crofts, felt very triumphant.
During all this period Dr Crofts came every day. It was in vain that Mrs Dale begged him not to do so; telling him in simple words that she felt herself bound not to accept from him all this continuation of his unremunerated labours now that the absolute necessity for them was over.
He did not bear, however, very good- naturedly, the jests and gibes of which he was the continual object, from the unfeeling courtiers, who often took pleasure in teasing him and in getting him into all sorts of absurd and ridiculous situations. At last his patience was entirely exhausted, and he challenged one of his tormentors, whose name was Crofts, to a duel.
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