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"Oh, dadda," cried the girl, desperately, "I know I was was a wicked creature, but I've been sorry, and suffered for it, and I don't think 't is fair to blame me for this. 'T was not I who brought him " "Silence, miss!" interrupted her mother. "Wouldst sauce thy father in his trouble?" "I presume you obtained the knowledge Clowes transmitted from your daughter?" surmised the officer.
"Oh, don't!" screamed Janice. "Dadda, stop them! "For shame!" echoed Mr. Meredith, swinging out of his saddle, in which hitherto he had remained a passive spectator. "Hands off," warned the torch-bearer, "if you don't want to be tied alongside of him."
"Why, dadda," she cried, with the old roguishness, "how can he be a rebel, now that they've won?" The squire pulled a wry look. "Little I dreamed I'd ever break faith, or make friends of the enemies of my king, but the times are disloyal, and I suppose one must go with them. If ye can persuade Phil to release us, Jan, have your way."
But if, after this confession, you still would have me for a wife, and dadda and mommy wish it, I will wed you, and try my best to be dutiful and loving." "'T is all I ask," eagerly exclaimed Philemon, as he caught her hand, and drew her toward him. "Ah, Janice, if you but knew how I love " "Ho! there ye are," came the voice of the commissary not five paces away.
Then he turned to Janice and remarked, "If ye insist on knowing the amount, 't is as well that your father give it to ye, since clearly ye trust me in nothing." "Oh, Lord Clowes," begged Janice, "wilt thou not let me pay this without calling in dadda? I I acted without first speaking to him, and I fear me " There her words were cut short by the entrance of the squire.
Something she said, but very sharp ears it needed to resolve the muffled sounds into the words, "Oh, dadda, I'm afraid that I care for him more than I thought." "What!" for a third time demanded Mr. Meredith. "'T is not possible I hear ye aright, girl. Why, a nine-months ago ye were beseeching me, with your arms about my neck, to fulfil my word to Phil."
"Young macaronis are oft known to give girls hundreds of pounds and get nothing in return." All the reply Janice made was to go to the door. "Whenever you will come to the parlour, dadda, you shall know all, but I will not stay here to endure such speeches." Without thought of the gold, Mr. Meredith was hurrying after his daughter, when Clowes interrupted him.
I'd sooner die than than Think what mommy and dadda and the whole village I did n't want to go with him but Please, oh, please! You'll not disgrace me? I'll promise never to go off with him indeed " "Of that I'll be bound," sneered the servant, with a harsh laugh, "for I'm going to take him with me to Cambridge." For a moment Janice was silent, then cried: "If you only knew how I hate you."
Remember that I am without money, and have been so ever since those rascals hounded me from home. Had not Lord Clowes generously stepped forward as he has, we should be put to it to get through the winter without being frozen or starved. And your mother's health is not such as could stand either, that ye know." "You are quite right, dadda," assented the girl, as she stooped and kissed him.
"You'll not go without a good-by, Jack," she pleaded. "Obey dadda I ought but Oh, Jack I will if you will but come back Yes, I will kiss you." Brereton halted and clutched the banister, as if to prevent either departure or return, and could the girl have seen the look on his face she would have been in his arms before he had time to conquer himself.
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