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Henry Nevil laughed to scorn Edgar's advocacy of their cause. Richard Clairvaux more than once quarrelled with him seriously, and on one or two occasions they almost betook themselves to their swords.
"So's Jem, sir, signalled the same," said one of the latter's attendants. Baldwin looked anxiously at the lines, and went quickly to the speaking-tube, to which he applied his ear. A look of surprise mingled with the anxiety as he put his lips to the tube. It was at this moment that he sent down the message before referred to, and received Edgar's prompt reply.
'Remember, Father never was a man for all work and no play. 'I don't mind play, but I don't know what this may lead to; then, as Felix laughed merrily at the repetition, she followed him into his room, saying, 'I mean, I have no trust in Edgar's discretion, or Lance's either, and all sorts of things may be put into the children's heads.
As the woman whose child had been ill had a short time before reported that the fever had left her, and that having drunk two basins of the arrow-root she was much better, the sheik had been greatly pleased with the idea that he had made a far more valuable capture than he had anticipated; he therefore received Edgar's explanation in his broken Arabic favourably.
'I do not say so, returned Mr. Ryder. 'Perhaps what I chiefly wished at this moment was to clear myself in your eyes of treachery to your father. 'No, sir, that I never could suspect. But the conversation might well leave heaviness behind it. Was it come to Edgar's views being such as to startle Mr.
At that moment a Norman knight spurred up to Henry with some communication that made him look uneasy, and Christina, laying her hand on Edgar's arm, said: "Brother, we have vaults. Thy troop outnumbers his. The people of good old Wessex are with thee! Now is thy time! Save thy country. Restore the line and laws of Alfred and Edward."
We must start for Bulawayo at once if we would catch Edgar's midnight train easily. I reached for my wallet, and brought out an Oxford anthology. I turned over the pages and began to read rather sadly
Will you really?" said Edgar, turning round a very anxious, eager face; and he said it again. "Oh, do please, every day, Arthur! I don't believe any one else does. Father used to pray for me; oh, I know he did!" and Edgar's words ended in smothered sobs. Arthur's arms were round his neck now. "Dear Edgar, don't cry.
"'Tain't no good now," said the boy, laughing to himself; "and never was much good. Only done for a cockshy. I'll take them back, though." This last was in allusion to the broken stick, which he picked up, and directly after found Master Edgar's tasselled cane, armed with which he beat a retreat toward the group making for the stile, with Helen beckoning to him to come.
"Good-night, Parson Polly," he said rather formally, for he was too greatly touched to be able to command his tones; "add your prayers to your sermons, and perhaps you 'll bring the black sheep safely into the fold." The quick tears rushed to Polly's eyes; for Edgar's stiff manner sat curiously on him, and she feared she had annoyed him by too much advice.
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