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Updated: May 19, 2025
I always think of Gladwyn when I read that description. I laughed mischievously: 'I am sorry to leave you just as you are in a poetical vein; but I must positively go in. Good-bye, Max, I felt I had lingered a little too long when I saw the blinds raised in Mr. Hamilton's study. But apparently the room was empty. I sauntered past it leisurely, and walked down the asphalt path.
'You will be welcomed as we only welcome our dearest and best, I assured him. 'Your brother's heart has been sore for you all these years: you need not fear one word of reproach from him. But he only sighed, and asked me not to walk so quickly; his courage was failing; I could see the look of nervous fear on his face. We had arranged that he should accompany me to Gladwyn.
After my hard day's work I was not always disposed for Jill's lively chatter, and yet her bright face was a very pleasant sight for tired eyes. I used to question her sometimes about her visits to Gladwyn, and she was always ready to talk of what had passed in the day.
He looks ten years younger, Miss Garston. And, as I smiled at that, he continued, in rather a constrained voice, 'Mr. Tudor breakfasted with us. 'Yes, I suppose so, I returned carelessly. 'What splendid carnations these are, Mr. Hamilton! You have not any so good at Gladwyn.
Uncle Max would miss me, but an old college friend was coming to stay at the vicarage, so I could be better spared. I had seen a great deal of Mr. Tudor lately. I often met him in the village, and he always turned back and walked with me: he met me on this occasion, and walked to the gates of Gladwyn.
I then offered my hand to her companion, a girl apparently about fourteen, who took a hearty hold of it, and jumped down beside her with a smile. As I followed them into the house, I took their card from the housekeeper's hand, and read, Mrs Oldcastle and Miss Gladwyn. I confess here to my reader, that these are not really the names I read on the card. I made these up this minute.
Tudor comes to see you, or if you go to the vicarage; and she said one day that she thought you preferred gentlemen's society to ladies', as they could never induce you to come up to Gladwyn, but of course you saw plenty of her cousin Giles in the village. I felt my cheeks burn at this unwarrantable accusation, but Jill begged me not to disturb myself.
At that moment a waft of night air bore to their ears the sullen booming of distant war drums and the wild chorus of quavering yells with which the frenzied savages across the river greeted Pontiac's declaration of war against the hated English. "By Heaven, Hester! I believe you are right," cried Gladwyn, as he listened to these ominous sounds.
"By Jove! How?" Then Gladwyn related the history of the paymaster's recent experiences and bravery so effectively that the poor little man became rosy with confusion, and when at the conclusion of the narrative his health was pledged with a round of cheers, he could only stammer in reply: "I thank you, gentlemen, from the bottom of my heart.
"If you insist upon placing yourself within the power of yonder savages, I shall know that you do so from the loftiest sense of duty, with a full knowledge that you jeopardize your life, and with a courage that I fear I for one could not exhibit." "Thank you, Gladwyn. That was said manfully and like a true soldier. I shall accept this mission because it is plainly in the line of my duty to do so.
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