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Be a good boy, Nevil, he murmured kindheartedly, and shook Beauchamp's hand with the cordiality of an extreme relief in leaving him behind. The colonel and Mr. Romfrey and Beauchamp were standing on the hall-steps when Rosamund beckoned the latter and whispered a request for that letter of Dr. Shrapnel's. 'It is for Miss Halkett, Nevil.
I have a misty recollection of how happy everybody looked, how the sun was shining, and the bells ringing, and the people cheering a mingled phantasmagoria of sights and sounds, in which I only saw one person distinctly, John. He waited while the young folk passed in stood on the hall-steps in a few words thanked his people, and bade them to the general rejoicing.
Be a good boy, Nevil, he murmured kindheartedly, and shook Beauchamp's hand with the cordiality of an extreme relief in leaving him behind. The colonel and Mr. Romfrey and Beauchamp were standing on the hall-steps when Rosamund beckoned the latter and whispered a request for that letter of Dr. Shrapnel's. 'It is for Miss Halkett, Nevil.
Their master had flown down the hall-steps, and the labourers were coming steadily up to it, bearing something in procession. Dr. Ashton came back as quickly as he had gone out, extending his arms before him. "Ladies, I pray you go in," he urged, in strange agitation. "You must not meet these these Irishmen. Go back to the dining-room, I entreat you, and remain in it."
One hour later, the riding party being then some miles from Molton Chase, a travelling carriage laden with trunks drove up to the house, and Mrs. Clayton, all blushes and smiles, stood on the hall-steps to welcome her expected guests. Colonel Damer was the first to alight.
Yet this might involve ruin and confiscation; and, apart from all consequences, she bitterly grieved that the stain of robbery should have fallen on her hitherto innocent sons. Every peasant she met greeted her with praises of their young lord, and, when she mounted the hall-steps, she found the floor strewn with bales of goods. "Mother," cried Ebbo, flying up to her, "have you heard?
He started as if suddenly awakened when she spoke; but he only said, "Will you? It will be right and kind. Thank you, in her name." And, with a grave, abstracted sort of salute, he left her, and pursued his way. Catherine was standing rather anxiously upon the hall-steps, looking round and wondering what had become of her nurse and her baby, when nurse, baby, and Lettice returned.
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