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He assembled a large army to punish his rebellious subjects, and the Catholic lords were at last forced to make their escape from the country. With the flight of Huntly and Erroll and the dispersal of their troops the triumph of Protestantism in Scotland was assured.
"How do you do, Captain Selwyn," she said. "I am Eileen Erroll and I am commissioned to give you some tea. Nina and Austin are in the nursery telling bedtime stories and hearing assorted prayers. The children seem to be quite crazy about you " She unfastened her veil, threw back stole and coat, and, rolling up her gloves on her wrists, seated herself by the table.
How wonderfully pretty she was, balanced there, her hand on his shoulder, ready for a leap, lest the heavy canoe, rolling over in the froth, strike her under the smother of foam and water. . . . How marvellously pretty she was. . . . Her hand on his shoulder. . . . Miss Erroll sat very still; but the pulse within her was not still.
Last night he evidentially found difficulty with the stairs and I seen him asleep on the parlour sofa when I come down to answer the milkman, a-smokin' a cigar that wasn't lit, with his feet on the angelus." "I'm very, very sorry, Mrs. Greeve," he said "and so is Mr. Erroll. He and I had a little talk to-day, and I am sure that he will be more careful hereafter."
"You never met Selwyn, did you?" "No, sir." "Never heard anything definite about his trouble?" insisted Gerard. "Oh, yes, sir!" replied young Erroll, "I've heard a good deal about it. Everybody has, you know." "Well, I don't know," retorted Austin Gerard irritably, "what 'everybody' has heard, but I suppose it's the usual garbled version made up of distorted fact and malicious gossip.
"Boots!" repeated Miss Erroll blankly, then laughed deliciously. "Poor, poor Boots! Did they say that about him? Oh, it really is too bad, Mrs. Fane; it is certainly horridly impertinent of people to say such things. My only consolation is that Boots won't care; and if he doesn't, why should I?" Rosamund nodded, crossing her crop. "At first, though, I did care," continued the girl.
But Selwyn, looking out of the window across the Park, knew perfectly well that young Erroll, now of age, with a small portion of his handsome income at his mercy, was past the regulating stage and beyond the authority of Austin.
As for this recent graduate from fudge and olives, she could scarcely realise how utterly and finally she had been silenced by her. Incredulity, exasperation, amazement had succeeded each other while Miss Erroll was speaking; chagrin, shame, helplessness followed as bitter residue.
Fleetwood was saying to Craig: "Certainly it was a stiff game Bradley, myself, Gerald Erroll, Mrs. Delmour-Carnes, and the Ruthvens." "Were you hit?" asked Craig, interested. "No; about even. Gerald got it good and plenty, though. The Ruthvens were ahead as usual "
From the name of this land the Hays came to be called; lords of Erroll, and it is said that the Hawk Stone at St. Madoes, Perthshire, which stands upon what is known to have been the ancient boundary of the possessions of the Hays, is the identical stone from which the lucky falcon started. It was left standing as a special memorial of the defeat of the Danes at Loncarty.
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