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You pretend to know nothing about the girl, and I call it shabby, there now!" Presently Desborough found himself standing alone. The whole position flashed upon him. He could not go back. He saw that his character was gone, and he saw that he was blamed for destroying a character that he had held more precious than his own. He went to his chambers and wrote to a relation for money.
Anything was preferable to the yoke of a succession of incapable and inglorious tyrants, raised to power, like the Deys of Barbary, by military revolutions recurring at short intervals. Lambert seemed likely to be the first of these rulers; but within a year Lambert might give place to Desborough, and Desborough to Harrison.
Desborough looked a minute into the dark depths. "Now, Hamlet, let us finish up. Let me see. What are the puzzles that I have to solve? Death? That's soon done. Three minutes, they say, it takes under water. And that other country where the travellers go and never return? Well, I don't see particularly why I should return, and oh! Ophelia, Ophelia."
No when the Parliament commanded me to sheath my sword, Colonel, I have too much veneration for their authority to be found again with it drawn in my hand." "But the Parliament," said Desborough, hastily, "did not command you to use your heels when your hands could have saved a man from choking.
But the villains had done their work of destruction before we reached Garoopm, and gone off to the mountains. "We shall have them in the morning," said Desborough. "More particularly as they have in their drunken madness hampered themselves in the mountains." We started before daybreak; each man of us armed with swords and pistols, and every man knew the use of his weapons well.
But I dare say you'd find the place quite as comfortable with Lord Beverdale for a host as you would if you had found out he were a cousin," he added. "Better," said the young lady frankly. "I suppose your mother participates in these preferences?" said the consul, with a smile. "No," said Miss Desborough, with the same frankness, "I think maw's rather cut up at not finding a Desborough.
"I wished them good night, and one of them gruffly bade me good night too; but I could not make out who they were, though one did for a moment strike me to be Desborough, and both were tallish sort of men." "You're a lad of penetration, Bill; now saddle me Silvertail as fast as you can." "Saddle Silvertail! surely father, you are not going out yet: it's not day-light."
He was relieved from his embarrassment by Middlemore exclaiming: "Nay, do not press the poor devil, Grantham; I dare say the story of his hunting is all a hum, and that the fact is, he is merely going to earn an honest penny in one of his free commercial speculations a little contraband," pointing with his finger to the bows, "is it not Desborough?"
"If YOU do not speak to them, I will!" said Miss Desborough firmly. "If you say what I tell you, it will come the more plausibly from you. Come! My mind is made up. One of us must break the news! Shall it be you or I?" She drew her cloak over her shoulders and made a step forwards. The consul saw she was determined.
Yet I speak not this so much in respect of this grant of Woodstock, in regard, that, perhaps, their Lordships of the Council, and also the Committeemen of this Parliament, may graciously think they have given me a portion in the matter, in relation that my kinsman Desborough hath an interest allowed him therein; which interest, as he hath well deserved it for his true and faithful service to these unhappy and devoted countries, so it would ill become me to diminish the same to his prejudice, unless it were upon great and public respects.
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