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We made our journey a little longer than we intended, crossing the moors so as to spend a Sunday at Exeter; but Frank Fordyce left us, not liking to give his father the entire duty of a third Sunday. Emily says she has come to have a superstition that extensions of original plans never turn out well, and certainly some of the charm of our journey departed with the merry, genial Parson Frank.
Then the crack of rifles was heard and a line of fire flashed out all along the low breastwork. And it came from huntsmen who knew how to bring down their game. Many of the grenadiers fell before this scorching fire. Their line was broken and thrown into confusion. Captain Fordyce at their head waved his hat, shouting, "The day is ours!" The words were barely spoken when he fell.
I had the whole written out, and was about to begin, when the person, with whom there was an appointment, was reported, and we knew that the rest of the day was mapped out. 'Look here, said Mr. Fordyce, 'leave that with me; I can't give any answer off-hand, except that Don Quixote is come alive again, only too like himself.
I hoped at length to come up with him, and my heart bounded with joy at the certainty it seemed to me that the young gentleman spoken of was my brother. Mr Fordyce did not appear to sympathise with me as much as I should have expected in my anxiety to find my brother. "You will fall in with him all in good time, and a few days or weeks cannot make much difference to either of you," he remarked.
I've got three weddings and a funeral to-morrow, and Simpson coming about the meeting. Come to luncheon all of you. Mrs. Fordyce will be delighted, and so will somebody else. There was no doubt about the somebody else, for Anne's feet were as nearly dancing round Emily as public propriety allowed, and the radiance of her face was something to rejoice in.
It is a very serious thing, and one must be quite sure, she said slowly; and that answer was more than George Fordyce had dared to hope for. There was more deliberation and calmness in her disposal of the question than would have satisfied most men, but he had fared better than he expected, and left the house content.
Fordyce, with a gasp. 'Well, not quite; she said I must leave her alone for a long time, and I mean to. It isn't pleasant for a fellow to be sat on by a girl especially, he added, with a significant shrug, 'when he isn't used to it. 'I wish you would tell me when all this happened. You have been very close about it, George, his mother said reproachfully.
Boswell, Dr. George Fordyce, Mr. Gibbon, Dr. R. B. Sheridan. E. no doubt stands for Edmund Burke, and J. for Joshua Reynolds. Who are meant by the other initials cannot be known. Mr. Croker hazards some guesses; but he says that Sir James Mackintosh and Chalmers were as dubious as himself. See Langhorne's Plutarch, ed. 1809, ii. 133.
Fordyce at home, Hardy? she asked the servant; 'and is she alone no visitors, I mean? 'Quite alone, with Miss Mina, in the drawing-room, Miss Graham, announced the maid, with a smile, but thinking at the same time that the girl looked very white and tired. 'Miss Fordyce is spending the day at Pollokshields, and will dine and sleep there, we expect.
'I have an inklin', replied Teen, and said no more, though her face became yet more gravely troubled. 'Liz, she said suddenly, 'will ye tell me wan thing afore we gang doon to Bourhill, if we gang? 'What is't? 'Had Fordyce onything to dae wi' you gaun awa' when you did? 'Mind yer ain business, replied Liz, with the utmost calmness, not even changing colour.
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