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And at half-past ten he got up from Sheila's fat little French dictionary and his Memoirs to answer Mrs Gull's summons on the area bell. The little woman stood with arms folded over an empty and capacious bag, with an air of sustained melancholy on her friendly face. She wished him a very nervous 'Good morning, and dived down into the kitchen.
He rapidly approached the Gull's Nest; and soon after she heard the shrill voice of Mother Hays, protesting over and over again, that "Robin had been there not twenty, not fifteen no, not ten minutes past; that she had searched every where, and that he was nowhere to be found; that she had not seen Hugh Dalton for a long, long time; and that, to the best of her belief, he had not touched the shore for many a day; that the men within were good men, honest men one in particular, who would be happy to serve him, as he seemed so earnest to see Robin Jack, true Jack Roupall, a tried, trusty man: could he be of any service, as that ne'er-do-good, Robin, was out of the way ever and always when he was wanted?
My fears redoubled when I saw Jeanne and M. Charnot at the windows of the train, as it swept past me into the station. A minute later she stepped on to the platform, dressed all in gray, with roses in her cheeks, and a pair of gull's wings in her hat.
Go forth with courage and with faith, even to the Gull's Nest Crag; tell Robin Hays that Walter De Guerre is a prisoner here, and that, unless he be at liberty before sunrise, he may be a dead man, as surely as he is a banned one; for some covert purpose lurks under his arrest. Tarry not, but see that you proceed discreetly, and, above all, secretly.
There was no time to lose; Colonel Jones, whose courage and coolness were proverbial amongst soldiers more celebrated for these qualities than even British soldiers have ever been before or since, was instantly dispatched to the Gull's Nest.
What little supper we were able to get on board was worse than none at all, for it did not stay with us anything but fun, this going to sea in a bowl, to rob gull's nests, and smuggle eggs into market. "May 5th.
We soon ran up to the Hard, when the man, stepping out, offered Jim a sixpence. "A shilling's the fare, sir," said Jim, keeping back his hand. "No, no, you young rascal! I know better; but I'll give you another sixpence if you will show me the way to Mr Gull's." "You may find it by yourself," answered Jim, indignantly, as he picked up the sixpence thrown to him by our fare, who walked off.
When at last he returned he had with him a kind forest doe, a yellow mother Deer who had left her little ones, at the White Gull's request, to come and feed the stranger baby. So Keneth found a new mother who loved him far better than his own had done, a new mother who came every morning and every night and fed him with her milk.
"Will you tell your friend, Mistress Cecil," continued the same voice Lady Frances could not see the speaker, although, as may be readily believed, she looked around her with an anxiety not divested of terror "Will you tell your friend, Mistress Cecil, that old Mother Hays, of the Gull's Nest Crag, is dying, and that she has something to communicate which it concerns her to know, and that the sooner she comes to the Gull's Nest the better; for the woman's spirit is only waiting to tell her secret, and go forth."
Poor Fleetword had long since arrived at the conclusion that he had unconsciously committed some crime, for which he was doomed to much suffering in the flesh: first imprisoned, and destined to endure starvation at the hands of Sir Willmott Burrell; then fed, but caged like an animal, by one whom he denominated "a man of fearful aspect, yea, of an angry countenance and fierce deportment, yet having consideration for the wants of the flesh;" then, when he had been liberated as he thought, for the express purpose of affording consolation to, and praying with a dying woman, and bound by his sacred word not to leave Gull's Nest, he found himself in the midst of the most unamiable-looking persons he had ever seen assembled; and his pale eye grew still more pale within its orbit from the effects of terror.
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