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Wallenstein then raised the siege, marched east to Kronach, and then north to Weida, on the Elster. Thence he pressed on direct to Leipzig, which he besieged at once; and while the main body of his troops were engaged before the city, others took possession of the surrounding towns and fortresses.
He chose for this purpose a spot in front of the Elster Gate, to the east of the town, near the Augustinian convent. A multitude poured forth to the scene. With Luther appeared a number of other doctors and masters, and among them Melancthon and Carlstadt. After one of the masters of arts had built up a pile, Luther laid the decretals upon it, and the former applied the fire.
I have just met her." "She told you wrong. He will be down to-morrow. Is that Dr. Ashton?" Attracted perhaps by the voices, Dr. and Mrs. Ashton, who were then out on the lawn, came round to the window. Percival Elster grasped a hand of each, and after a minute or two's studied coldness, the doctor thawed.
The dews of an October evening were falling upon Calne, as Lord Hartledon walked from the railway-station. Just as unexpectedly as he had arrived the morning you first saw him, when he was only Val Elster, had he arrived now. By the merest accident one of the Hartledon servants happened to be at the station when the train arrived, and took charge of his master's luggage.
By it Percival found there was no one else to open it now that his brother had written to them early on the Tuesday morning, taking the debt upon himself; and they now wrote to say they accepted his responsibility, and had withdrawn the officer from Calne. Alas! Val Elster could have dismissed him himself now. He sat with bent head and drooping eyelids.
Elster would not care to be so spoken of," said Miss Ashton, her face beginning to glow. "You devoted girl! It is you who don't care to hear it. Take care, Anne; too much love is not good for gaining the mastership; and I have heard that you are shall I say it? éperdue."
In his vexation, he was about to retaliate on Captain Dawkes by a little revelation on the score of his affairs, certain things that might not have redounded to that gallant officer's credit. But he arrested the words in time: he was of a kindly nature, not fond of returning ill for ill. With all his follies, Val Elster could not remember to have committed an evil act in all his life, save one.
A noble room, this they were in, as many of the rooms were in the fine old mansion. Lord Hartledon opened the inner door, and took them into another, to show them the portrait of his brother George a fine young man also, with a fair, pleasing countenance. "He is like Elster; not like you, Hartledon," cried a young man, whose name was Carteret.
But do you know that Lord Hartledon may not choose to retain you as a tenant?" "If Lord Hartledon should think of ousting me, I would ask Mr. Elster to intercede, in requital for the good turn I've done him this day," was the bold answer. Mr. Elster laughed. "What is your name?" "Tom Pike." "I hear a great deal said of you, Pike, that's not pleasant; that you are a poacher, and a "
Barby looked at her with a relaxed face, and after a little consideration said "she guessed she'd try." "Mis' Plumfield," cried the old lady as they were moving, "Mis' Plumfield, you said you'd send me a piece of pork." "I haven't forgotten it, Mrs. Elster you shall have it."
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