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No, I do not think that you need disquiet yourself, in the slightest, about those at home." As Captain Davenant had thought probable, the Irish army, after marching into Dublin in good order, with flags flying and music playing, left on the following day for the west.
"'Nonsense, nonsense, I said, 'such words are only to mask a refusal. Mask, I remember, was the word that hurt him. Of all I could have used, it was the worst: I knew it the instant I had said it. Lord Davenant stepped back, and with such a look! You, Helen, who have seen only his benign countenance, his smiling eyes, cannot conceive it.
This was agreed to the more readily by the general, as his thoughts and feelings were then more agreeably engrossed, and Beauclerc found in Lady Davenant the very friend he wanted and wished for most ardently one whose mind would not blench at any moral danger, would never shrink from truth in any shape, but, calm and self-possessed, would examine whether it were indeed truth, or only a phantom assuming her form.
It challenged her; it even annoyed her. At the same time it gave Davenant an importance in her eyes which she was far from willing to concede. Rodney Temple's house, which was really within the borders of Cambridge, built about 1840 by some Harvard professor in easy circumstances, had originally resembled a square brick box.
Montague sat for a while in thought. He muttered, half to himself, "Governor Hannis! It takes my breath away!" "Get Davenant to tell you about it," said Curtiss, with a laugh. "Maybe it's not so bad as I imagine. Davenant is cynical on the subject of governors, you know. He had an experience a few years ago, when he went up to Albany to try to get the Governor to sign a certain bill.
I saw Mordaunt and Davenant, but not Mohun he was absent, visiting his picket line. Mordaunt was the same stately soldier his grave and friendly voice greeted me warmly as in old days; and Willie Davenant, now a major, commanding a battalion of horse artillery, shook hands with me, as shy and blushing as before and even more sad. "How had his suit prospered? Were things more encouraging?"
Can you explain it to me? Some good action of yours, I suppose, for which I am to be thanked." Lady Davenant looked at the letter. She had nothing to do with the matter, she said; but, on second thoughts, exclaimed, "This is Granville Beauclerc's doing, I am clear!"
His confusion seemed to deprive him of the power of utterance. "I'll bet he's blushing now!" said Stuart, laughing and continuing to write with his back turned, as he spoke. "He is blushing or sighing for the poor Yankees he has killed, doubtless!" "You are laughing at me, general," said the young man timidly. "Well, my laughter won't hurt you, Davenant. I never joke with people I don't like.
"Are you quite well, Larry?" John asked him. "I am," Larry replied; "but I need not ask the same question of yourself, for you are nothing but skin and bone, entirely. Dear, dear, I wouldn't have known you at all, at all, and such a foine colour as ye used to have." "I don't think starving would suit you, Larry," Captain Davenant said with a smile. "Sure an' it wouldn't, yer honour.
To do this with effect he wanted horses; and he had therefore arranged a plan for possessing himself of the horses at the depôt: in what way this plan had become known to Sir Charles Davenant, he could not guess. Having however been thus prematurely discovered, it was now finally defeated.
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