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Mordaunt of Mordaunt Court, poor gentleman, though he is poor no more," and Mr. Brown proceeded to enumerate the long list of his customers. Now, we have stated that Wolfe, though he had never known the rank of Mordaunt, was acquainted with his real name, and, as the sound caught his ear, he muttered, "Mordaunt, Mordaunt, ay, but not my former acquaintance, not him who was called Glendower.
One gripe from this hand, one cry from this voice, and my board might be heaped with plenty, and my child fed, and she smile as she was wont to smile, for one night at least." And as these thoughts broke upon him, Glendower rose, and with a step firm, even in weakness, he strode unconsciously onward. A figure appeared; Glendower's heart beat thick.
"That will I not," Glendower said. "Or rather, I will take a ransom; since, were I to release you without one, it might cause surprise and inquiry; and it were well that your noble conduct to my daughters should not be known, for Henry would not be likely to regard it favourably. Therefore we will put you to ransom at the sum of a crown for yourself, and a penny for your squire."
"You do my humanity wrong!" said Glendower, with a bitter and almost ghastly smile; "I do worse than wince!" "Ay, is it so?" said Crauford; "have you awakened at last? Has your philosophy taken a more impassioned dye?"
The party was to march west; the king's force was to move south of Plinlimmon; Lord Talbot's to cross the range of hills, and come down upon the river Dovey and, if possible, prevent Glendower, if he is still on Plinlimmon, from making his way to Dinas Mowddwy, or Cader Idris, or up to Snowdon again.
At that moment a man darted suddenly from an obscure alley, and passed Glendower at full speed; presently came a cry, and a shout, and a rapid trampling of feet, and, in another moment, an eager and breathless crowd rushed upon the solitude of the street. "Where is he?" cried a hundred voices to Glendower, "where, which road did the robber take?"
In the first place, during Crauford's acquaintance with Glendower abroad, the latter had often, though innocently, galled the vanity and self-pride of the parvenu affecting the aristocrat, and in poverty the parvenu was anxious to retaliate.
Guided more by the sound than by actual vision, Maude flew like lightning to his side, and kneeling before him hid her face in his lap, while he bent fondly over her, beseeching her to say if she could see. It was a most touching sight, and drawing near, Maude Glendower mingled her tears with those of the unfortunate children on whom affliction had laid her heavy hand.
The Welsh are, above all things, fond of long pedigrees, and can trace, or pretend to trace, the lineage of all their principal families up to Noah; and some of them admit that there is some ground for the claim Glendower is said to have made. "Still, all these rumours make me feel uneasy.
The lady sitting beside him laughed, and tapped him on the arm. "Sentimentalist! Don't you know that girls nowadays babes in the schoolroom know the value of everything? Who is she staying with?" Falloden briefly explained and tried to change the subject. But Mrs. Glendower could not be persuaded to leave it.
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