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Updated: June 11, 2025
'Do you think, girls, you could be ready to come away with me, if Silas gives leave, in an hour or two? I should so like to take you both home with me to Elverston. 'How delightful! you darling, cried I, embracing and kissing her; 'for my part, I should be ready in five minutes; what do you say, Milly?
Well you'll not guess in a week, and I can't wait so long; so I may as well tell you at once she was that horrid old Mademoiselle Blassemare whom you pointed out to me at Elverston; and I never forgot her face since nor she, it seems, mine, for she turned away very quickly, and when I next saw her, her veil was down."
Lord Reginald, however, cheered her up somewhat, by assuring her that she should not come to want, a promise which he faithfully fulfilled, the marquis making her an allowance, while Lady Elverston obtained employment for her in the neighbourhood. At length, Lord Reginald and Dick joined a fine frigate, to which the former had been appointed as second lieutenant.
Keep the pound; but tell me that you won't mention my having asked you to carry a letter to Elverston to anyone. For the first time Tom looked perfectly serious. He twiddled the corner of my letter between his finger and thumb, and wore very much the countenance of a poacher about to be committed. 'I don't want to chouce ye, Miss; but I must take care o' myself, ye see.
Lord Reginald, however, knew the road, and there was light enough from the stars to enable them to see it without difficulty. Elverston was situated some distance from the coast, within the borders of the New Forest.
She planted it, and it's very pretty when it's full in blow, said Milly. Our visit to Elverston had been of immense use to us both. 'Oh! planted by you? he said, very softly, with a momentary corresponding glance. 'May I ever so little just a leaf? And without waiting for permission, he held a sprig of it next his waistcoat. 'Yes, it goes very prettily with those buttons.
'DEAREST MAUD, I have written by this post to Silas, beseeching a loan of you and my Cousin Milly. I see no reason your uncle can possibly have for refusing me; and, therefore, I count confidently on seeing you both at Elverston to-morrow, to stay for at least a week. I have hardly a creature to meet you. I have been disappointed in several visitors; but another time we shall have a gayer house.
Indeed I don't know what to make of him; but I am sure when you have thought it over, you will agree with me and Doctor Bryerly, that you must not stay here. It was vain trying to induce my cousin to be more explicit. 'I hope to see you at Elverston in a very few days. I will shame Silas into letting you come. I don't like his reluctance.
Dick's stay on shore, however, consisted but of a few weeks, some of which were spent at Elverston in company with Lord Reginald. He paid poor Susan Rudall and her children a visit, when he performed the painful duty of giving them an account of Ben's death.
"I tell you what, Dick, if I was Farmer Hargrave I would not turn out to please Lord Elverston or any other lord in the land," exclaimed Ben Rudall, as he stood hammering away at the side of his boat, which lay drawn up on the inner end of Hurst beach, near the little harbour of Keyhaven, on the Hampshire coast, at the western entrance of the Solent, opposite the Isle of Wight.
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