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Updated: June 16, 2025
To tell the truth I hadn't the least idea whether he would obey me, or Mr. Downes. Mr. Downes continued to bluster and Paul hung sullenly about the drawing room. I had got through with both of them, however. Whether the butler and the other servants backed me up, or not, I believed that I had the whip-hand. Marie helped me bear my mother to her room.
However, we did it all and came down to Threlkeld of the Bridal of Triermain, "'The King his way pursued By lonely Threlkeld's waste and wood, "in good time for me to dress and, for a wonder, go out to dinner with Acland's friends the Butlers." As an episode in this visit to Keswick, ten days were given to the neighbourhood of Ambleside, "to show Downes Windermere." "Waterhead, Windermere,
Chester Downes and Paul, if it hurts your feelings for me to tell the truth about them. But I am bound to be angry if anybody maligns my father's memory." "Oh, Chester would never do such a thing," mother gasped. "Then, where did Paul pick up that old scandal to throw at me?" I demanded. "What old scandal do you mean, Clinton?" she asked, faintly.
All the newes this day is, that the Dutch are, with twenty-two sayle of ships of warr, crewsing up and down about Ostend; at which we are alarmed. My Lord Sandwich is come back into the Downes with only eight sayle, which is or may be a prey to the Dutch, if they knew our weakness and inability to set out any more speedily. Up the first time I have had great while.
He lays much of the little success we had, however, upon the fleete's being divided by order from above, and the want of spirit in the commanders; and that he was commanded by order to go out of the Downes to the Gun-fleete, and in the way meeting the Dutch fleete, what should he do? should he not fight them? especially having beat them heretofore at as great disadvantage.
We were at Punta Arenas in a few hours, and the very next morning the bark was warped in beside the tramp steamer and the oil in the whaler's tanks was being pumped aboard the steamship. The men were given short shore leave; but Captain Rogers put Paul Downes in the care of Bill Rudd, the carpenter, and made him responsible for him.
She had heard of my being in London from Lord Downes, who had seen me at the Countess de Salis's, where we met him and Lady Downes; when I met her again two days after we had been at Apsley House she said the Duchess was not so ill as I supposed, that her physicians do not allow that they despair.
Worried as I was because of my situation, here in the seemingly empty Atlantic, my greatest anxiety was for my mother. More and more had I come to fear the evil machinations of Mr. Chester Downes. While I had been on hand to defend mother from her brother-in-law and defend her from her own innocent belief in him, as well! I was but mildly disturbed.
I left my home without any particular thought of the future, or any serious cogitation as to what would be the result of my act. Merely, I had put two and two together in my mind and I would sleep aboard the Wavecrest. I knew well enough that my cousin, Paul Downes, was too thoroughly scared by my threat to have him arrested for assault, to openly make an attack upon either my boat or myself.
I to the 'Change and there staid long doing business, and this day for certain newes is come that Teddiman hath brought in eighteen or twenty Dutchmen, merchants, their Bourdeaux fleete, and two men of wary to Portsmouth. And I had letters this afternoon, that three are brought into the Downes and Dover; so that the warr is begun: God give a good end to it!
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