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Updated: June 11, 2025
I've the greatest respect for nonsense, I owe it so much; and I really think if nonsense were banished, the earth would grow insupportable. 'Thank you, Lord Ilbury, said Milly, who had grown quite easy in his company during our long visit at Elverston; 'and I tell you, Miss Maud, if you grow saucy, I'll accept your present, and what will you say then?
"I have brought a fresh hand, Jack!" he said, addressing the skipper in a familiar tone. "I have long promised him a trip, and as it happens, it is as well that he should keep out of the way of the big-wigs over there." Ben then briefly explained the danger Dick was in for threatening to shoot the son of the Marquis of Elverston.
"You menace litigation whenever you have the means; but you forget that Austin placed you under promise, when he gave you the use of this house and place, never to disturb my title to Elverston. So there is my answer, if you mean that." "I mean what I mean," he replied, with his old smile.
He then introduced his messmate Mr Voules, who received a polite welcome to Elverston Hall. "And now, pray tell us, Reginald, to what circumstances we are indebted for seeing you so unexpectedly," said the marquis.
Write a bit o' a note to the lady yonder at Elverston; an' though Brice be a wild fellah, and 'appen not ower good sometimes, he likes me, an' I'll make him take it. Fayther will be grindin' at mill to-morrow. Coom ye here about one o'clock that's if ye see the mill-sails a-turnin' and me and Brice will meet ye here. Bring that old lass wi' ye.
Are we near Elverston? ''Twill be a mile, Miss: and please'm to mind I had no finger in't. 'Thanks thank you you're very good I shall always thank you, Tom, as long as I live! At length we entered Elverston. I think I was half wild. I don't know how I got into the hall. I was in the oak-parlour, I believe, when I saw cousin Monica. I was standing, my arms extended.
Lord Elverston told me this morning that he was willing to offer any reasonable compensation to your husband for quitting the farm, and he would probably give him ample time to find another equally suitable."
Old Dicken and his daughter Beauty, old L'Amour and Dudley Ruthyn, now enter upon the scene, each a fresh shadow to deepen its already sombre hue, while the gloom gathers in spite of the glimpse of sunshine shot through it by the visit to Elverston.
It was nearly two o'clock in the morning when they reached the hall. They found Lord and Lady Elverston, with Lord John, sitting up for them. "Most thankful to see you back," said Lord Elverston, who came out to meet them; "we were too anxious to go to bed.
She had been espied and overtaken in her errand of mercy for me, and her ruffian father had felled her with his cudgel, and then locked her into the cottage, whence, however, she had contrived to escape, and was now flying to Elverston, having tried in vain to get a hearing in Feltram, whose people had been for hours in bed.
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