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Updated: May 27, 2025
Poor Ephraim Gundry's rare power of sight had been fatal perhaps to the cause he fought for, or at least to its greatest captain.
Yet what will all such grandeur do the self-defensive heart inquires for puny, feeble, lonely me? Before another shadow deepened or another light grew pale, a slow, uncertain step drew near, and by the merest chance it happened to be Ephraim Gundry's. I was quite surprised, and told him so; and he said that he also was surprised at meeting me in this way.
Gundry's only answer was to lead me back to the fireside, where he made me sit down, and examined me, while Suan was frying the butter-beans. "Who was it spied you on the mountains, missy, the whole of the way from the redwood-tree, although you lay senseless on the ground, and he was hard at work with the loppings?"
And now she dashed through thick and thin in a most commanding manner, caring no more for a snow-drift than ladies do for a scraping of the road. No one with the least observation could doubt that this young woman was extremely anxious to attract Firm Gundry's notice; and therefore, on the day above spoken of, once more she rode over, with her poor father in waiting upon her as usual.
Not that I expected ever that any harm would be done to me, only that I knew myself to have no claim on any one. One day, when I was fit for nothing but to dwell on trouble, Sampson Gundry's grandson "Firm" as he was called for Ephraim ran up the stairs to the little room where I was sitting by myself. "Miss Rema, will you come with us?" he said, in his deep, slow style of speech.
Only the bent of the grasses and the swath of the pendulous twigs down stream remained to show that there must have been some violence quite lately. All Mr. Gundry's strengthening piles and shores were as firm as need be, and the clear blue water played around them as if they were no constraint to it.
And when the captain ceased to receive cowhide, he must have had it long enough to miss it. Now this might have ended honorably and amicably for all concerned, if the captain had known when he was well off. Unluckily he had purloined a bottle of Mr. Gundry's whiskey, and he drew the cork now to rub his stripes, and the smell of it moved him to try it inside.
Gundry's skill and labor and ingenuity, the wheel was no true circle. The error began in the hub itself, and increased, of course, with the distance; but still it worked very well, like many other things that are not perfect.
But am I to understand that you still deny in that barefaced manner, with my witness here, the fact of your having been at Colonel Gundry's my cousin, Sir, and a man not to be denied, without an insult to myself a man who possesses ingots of gold, ingots of gold, enough to break the Bank of England, and a man whose integrity doubles them all.
Or he might not have known that the thing was there; or it might not have been of importance till lately; or he might have been afraid, until something else happened. Does he know that you are now in England?" "How can I possibly tell, Mrs. Busk? He seems to know a great deal too much. He found me out when I was at Colonel Gundry's.
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