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Updated: June 13, 2025
It was just five o'clock when they reached her stopping-place. Ellen knew of no particular house to go to, so Mrs. Dunscombe set her down at the door of the principal inn of the town, called the "Star," of Thirlwall.
She had become steadily more emphatic, more triumphant, more self-confident. "Well, what have you been doing with yourself? nothing but politics?" The careless, provocative smile with which the words were accomplished roused a kind of instant antagonism in Marsham. "Nothing nothing, at least, worth anybody's remembering." "You spoke at Dunscombe last week." "I did." "And you went to help Mr.
"No, Sir," said Ellen, in a low tone, her colour mounting higher and higher "it was laughed at, this morning." "Laughed at! who laughed at it?" "Mrs. Dunscombe, and her daughter, and her maid." "Did they! I don't see much reason in that, I confess. What did they think was the matter with it?" "I don't know, Sir; they said it was outlandish, and what a figure I looked in it!"
It would have been more to the purpose, I think, if they had taken a little trouble to raise some themselves!" Lady Lucy flushed. "I don't suppose Dunscombe is a place with many rich people in it," she said, in a voice of protest, as she passed him. Her thoughts hurt her as she mounted the stairs. Oliver had not received her gift for, after all, it was a gift to him very graciously.
Alice Dunscombe did not find the second of the prisoners buried, like Griffith, in sleep, but he was seated on one of the old chairs that were in the apartment, with his back to the door, and apparently looking through the small window, on the dark and dreary scenery over which the tempest was yet sweeping in its fury.
He gently put his arm round her, and drew her head to a better resting-place than it had chosen. And there she slept till the dinner-bell rang. Timmins was sent out to look for her, but Timmins did not choose to meddle with the grave protector Ellen seemed to have gained; and Mrs. Dunscombe declared herself rejoiced that any other hands should have taken the charge of her.
From this place Cecilia held communion, by letter, with her friend Alice Dunscombe; and such suitable provision was made in the affairs of her late uncle as the times would permit. Afterwards, when Griffith obtained the command which had been offered him before sailing on the cruise in the North Sea, they returned together to America.
When you are done with them, you will please to return them to me, if it be only to save a poor fellow's eye; for unless the door is kept locked, I shall not dare to look about me for a moment." Cecilia promised to return the keys, and she had applied one of them to a lock with a trembling hand, when Alice Dunscombe arrested her arm, and addressed the soldier.
"One who possesses neither the power nor the inclination to do ye harm," answered the solitary female; "'tis Alice Dunscombe, returning, by permission of your leader, to the place of her birth." "Ay," muttered Manual, "this is one of Griffith's unmilitary exhibitions of his politeness! Does the man think that there was ever a woman who had no tongue!
Dunscombe I have engaged her to take charge of you all the way quite to Thirlwall; she's the wife of Captain Dunscombe, whom you saw here the other day, you know; and her daughter is going with her, so you will have charming company. I dare say you will enjoy the journey very much; and your aunt will meet you at Thirlwall. Now, make haste I expect the carriage every minute.
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