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Updated: June 17, 2025
It was true; but Eric didn't know that half the kindness which Montagu showed to his brother was shown solely for his sake. "Do you know, I've thought of a plan for making you two friends again? I've written to Aunt Trevor to ask him to Fairholm with us next holidays." "Oh, have you? Good Verny! Yes; there we might be friends.
Lord Fairholm, Sir John Loveday, and other gentlemen, now came round. "I was rather thinking," Sir John said, with a laugh, "of taking you under my protection, Master Holliday, and fighting your battles for you, as an old boy does for a young one at school; but it must even be the other way.
At six in the evening the train stopped at Charlesbury, and he got down. "Ticket," said the station-man. Eric gave it, turning his head away, for the man knew him well from having often seen him there. It was no use; the man looked hard at him, and then, opening his eyes wide, exclaimed, "Well, I never! what, Master Williams of Fairholm, can that be you?"
Rupert introduced his friends to Captain Lauriston and Lieutenant Dillon, and the invitation was extended to them. For the time, however, it was necessary to see to the wants of the men, but later on the three officers went across to the tents of the king's dragoons, to which regiment Lord Fairholm and Sir John Loveday both belonged, and spent a merry evening.
It is his power, not his will, that I doubt. I do not feel certain; far from it, I regard the issue as doubtful; and yet I feel a strong confidence in the result; for you must know, Master Dillon, that Rupert Holliday, boy as he is, is probably the best swordsman in the British army." "Rupert Holliday!" ejaculated Dillon, incredulously. Lord Fairholm nodded.
They particularly requested that no one should come to meet them on their landing. "We shall reach Southampton," wrote Mrs. Trevor, "tired, pale, and travel-stained, and had much rather see you first at dear Fairholm, where we shall be spared the painful constraint of a meeting in public. So please expect our arrival at about seven in the evening."
She used a parasol when she could, and if she got sunburnt bathing or boating, she washed her face in buttermilk at night, fetched from Fairholm regularly for the purpose. The minds and habits of the young are apt to form themselves in this way out of suggestions let fall by all kinds of people, the worst and most foolish as well as the wisest and best.
She spent a delightful day at Fairholm, and went home in extravagantly high spirits. Dr. Dan called early the next morning, and found her with her hat on, just going out. "How are you this misty cold grey day?" he asked. "Oh, very bright," she answered. "I feel as if I were the sun, and I'm just going to shine out on the world to enliven it." "May I accompany you?" he asked.
"Sir John Loveday, Lord Fairholm," he said, turning to two young gentlemen near, "let me present to you Master Rupert Holliday, grandson of Colonel Holliday, one of the bravest of our cavaliers, and who I can guarantee has inherited the skill and courage of his grandfather.
Uncle James had given Jim leave to shoot, provided he sent the game he killed to Fairholm; and sometimes they spent the day wandering through the woods after birds, and sometimes they sat on the cliffs, which skirted the property, potting rabbits.
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