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Updated: May 13, 2025
Thus we came to Hatchstead, better strangers than ever we had left Dover, and, although safe and sound from bodily perils and those wiles of princes that had of late so threatened our tranquillity, yet both of us as ill in temper as could be conceived. Defend me from any such journey again! But there is no likelihood of such a trial now, alas!
The dead rise, or at least there is a voice that speaks from the tomb. A man tarries to listen. Well if he be not lost in listening! With a sigh Nell moved across the room and flung the window open. The loiterers were gone, all was still, only the stars looked in, only the sweet scent of the night made a new companion. "It's like a night at Hatchstead," she whispered.
I drew back, releasing my hands from hers, and I spoke to her stiffly. "Madame," said I, "this is not Hatchstead, nor do you seem the lady whom I knew at Hatchstead." "Indeed, you seem very like the gentleman I knew, and knew well, there," she retorted. "And you, very unlike the lady." "Nay, not so unlike as you think. But are you also going to preach to me?"
But once more he faced me before he went, and looked very intently at me. Then he passed out, leaving us alone. At his going Nell sighed for relief, stretched out her arms, and let them fall on the table in front of her; then she sprang up and ran to me, catching hold of my hands. "And how goes all at pretty Hatchstead?" she asked.
"Go your ways, Simon Dale, go your ways; go to your Barbara, and your Hatchstead, and your dulness, and your righteousness." "We part in kindness?" I urged.
For Simon cannot love where the King loves, nor know what the King hides, nor drink of the King's cup, if he abide all his days here in Hatchstead. Come, Simon, the plague is gone!" "Should I then be gone too?" I asked. "But to what end? I have no friends in London who would bring me to the notice of the King." The Vicar shook his head sadly.
She had waited for years to avenge the kiss that I gave Cydaria in the Manor Park at Hatchstead; but was it not well avenged when I stood humbly, in deferential silence, at the back while his Grace the Duke sued for her favour, and half the Court looked on?
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