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James Frost Dynevor away at eleven next morning; and therefore did Isabel look up in a sudden fit of recollection, as the breakfast was being removed, and say, 'Charlotte, Delaford is coming on Tuesday to fetch me to Estminster, and will sleep here that night.
Thou didst plot and contrive to wrest from me the fair lands my father bequeathed me; but I trow the day has dawned when the false lord shall be cast forth, even as he has cast forth others, and when there shall be a lord of the old race ruling at Dynevor, albeit he rule beneath a new name."
Mansell repeat her special invitation to Mr. Frost Dynevor with double cordiality. 'If you must play practical jokes, said James, as they watched the carriage drive off, 'I wish you would choose better moments for them. 'I thought you would be more in character as a merman brave, said Louis. 'I wonder what character you thought you appeared in?
Alphonso sprang gaily between the angry youth and his father's keen glance, and began talking eagerly of Dynevor, asking how the brothers would spend their time, now that they were all to live there once more; whilst Arthyn, coming forward, drew Llewelyn gently backward, casting at Raoul a look of such bitter scorn and hatred that he involuntarily shrank before it.
Louis, alarmed by her looks, saw that no time was to be lost; and rising hastily before any one was ready, perilled his fame for eloquence by rapidly assuring the gentlemen and ladies that Miss Dynevor was truly sensible of the kindness of their welcome, and their manner of receiving the toast. Then pushing back his chair, with 'never mind, to Mrs.
O. J. F. Dynevor, Esquire, if it were you who were coming from Peru, you would find a score to settle! He ran down stairs to assist his grandmother in the Latin lessons of her little school, the usual employment of his vacations. Catharine Dynevor had begun life with little prospect of spending nearly half of it as mistress of a school.
"Methinks I am not mistaken in you, sons of Dynevor. You have not willingly left your mountain eyry for these halls where the proud foeman holds his court and sits in judgment upon those who by rights are free as air. I have heard of you before, Llewelyn and Howel ap Res Vychan.
He had a tender spot in his memory for the little maid he had saved at the risk of his own life, but it amounted to little more than a pleasant memory. He had no doubt that she had long ago been wedded to some English noble, whose estates outshone those of Dynevor in her father's eyes.
'I find, he continued, 'that the whole affair may be easily settled, if you will give me authority. 'I thought I had given you authority to act in my name. 'It might be simplified. 'Shall I sign my name! 'Yes once to make mine yours. If your claims are mine, I can take much better care of the Dynevor interest.
Raoul had hated the Dynevor brothers ever since he had detected in Arthyn an interest in and sympathy for them, ever since he had found her in close talk in their own tongue with the dark-browed twins, whose antagonism to the English was scarcely disguised. He had done all he knew to stir the hot blood in Llewelyn and Howel, and that with some success.