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So I take it that I feel the joy that I have a son who is ready to suffer for it, more than the pain I have in thinking on his sufferings. The one may perhaps atone for the sins of the other, and yet help him to repentance." Life here at Langley was more encouraging than the furtive existence necessary in the north of Derbyshire. Mr.
When I found that he saw the romantick beauties of Islam, in Derbyshire, much better than I did, I told him that he resembled an able performer upon a bad instrument. It has been said, that he contracted this grievous malady from his nurse.
The sun was rising over the hills of Derbyshire, dyeing them of a red purple, standing out sharply against a flaming sky, flecked here and there with rosy clouds, and fading into blue that deepened as it rose higher. The elms and beeches that bordered the monastic fields had begun to put on their autumn livery, and yellow leaves here and there were like sparks caught from the golden light.
"Hadn't we better telegraph to your people in Derbyshire?" suggested Jack Herring. "Don't do it," vehemently protested the thoughtful Miss Bulstrode; "it might alarm them. The best plan is for you to lend me a couple of sovereigns and let me return home quietly." "You might be robbed again," feared Jack Herring. "I'll go down with you." "Perhaps he'll turn up to-morrow," thought Miss Bulstrode.
The ancient house stood more than a mile from the high road, near the further end of such a park as is rarely to be seen, even in beautiful Derbyshire, for the Foxwells had always loved their trees, as good Englishmen should, and had taken care of them.
Many other trees and plants, curious in leaf, stem, or manner of growth, grew on the borders of the thickets along which lay our road; they were all attractive to newcomers, whose last country ramble of quite recent date was over the bleak moors of Derbyshire on a sleety morning in April.
But, one great real plot was at length discovered, and it ended the career of Mary, Queen of Scots. A seminary priest named BALLARD, and a Spanish soldier named SAVAGE, set on and encouraged by certain French priests, imparted a design to one ANTONY BABINGTON a gentleman of fortune in Derbyshire, who had been for some time a secret agent of Mary's for murdering the Queen.
As for wealth, I am told Sir George could easily buy the estates of any six men in Derbyshire." "You know Sir George?" I asked despite myself. "I do not know him, I am glad to say," returned the stranger. "By God, sir, you shall answer-" "At your pleasure, Sir Malcolm." "My pleasure is now," I retorted eagerly.
"It's the last time I shall trouble you, Lucy," said Monckton. "As you please, Leonard." "And I want you to make my fortune." "You have only to tell me how." "You must accompany me to Derbyshire, or else meet me at Derby, whichever you please. Oh, don't be alarmed. I don't ask you to travel with me as man and wife." "It doesn't much matter, I suppose," said Lucy, doggedly.
North and south the eye ranges over a vast extent of lovely scenery; and on the west, looking over the town of Chesterfield, with its church and crooked spire, the extensive range of the Derbyshire hills bounds the distance. The Midland Railway skirts the western edge of the park in a deep rock cutting, and the shrill whistle of the locomotive sounds near at hand as the trains speed past.
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