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This progress of melancholy anticipation was interrupted by the return of Master Holdenough, who, hurrying into the room, with the same precipitate pace at which he had left it, ran straight up to the Colonel, and said, "Take my hand, Markham take my hand hastily; for the old Adam is whispering at my heart, that it is a disgrace to hold it extended so long."
"The Dean came to me the other day," continued he, "and I could see at a glance that he meant to be quite at home in the house, if I didn't put him down." "You'll see Mr. Holdenough, won't you? Mr. Holdenough is a very gentlemanlike man, and the Holdenoughs were always quite county people. You used to like Alice."
She spoke in private to her son, who declared that nothing would separate Mary from her father. "I don't think I could entertain him after what he did to Brotherton," said the Marchioness, bursting into tears. There were great consultations at Manor Cross, in which the wisdom of Lady Sarah and Lady Susanna, and sometimes the good offices of Lady Alice Holdenough were taxed to the utmost.
"Thou art indeed warm and alive," he said, "and yet after so many blows, and a fall so tremendous thou canst not be my Joseph Albany." "I am Joseph Albany Rochecliffe," said the Doctor, "become so in virtue of my mother's little estate, which fines and confiscations have made an end of." "And is it so indeed?" said Holdenough, "and have I recovered mine old chum?"
But here is excuse my curiosity a reverend gentleman," pointing to Holdenough, "who has told me that you are so strangely embarrassed here, as to require both the civil and spiritual authority to enable you to keep possession of Woodstock."
"Vanity of vanities," said Holdenough, smiling kindly at the same time, and still holding his recovered friend's arm enclosed and hand-locked in his. "But the breaking the Principal's orchard, so cleanly done," said the Doctor; "it was the first plot I ever framed, and much work I had to prevail on thee to go into it."
It proved his safety on this occasion, for the rapier sprung in shivers; while the owner, now held back by Everard and Holdenough, flung the hilt with passion on the ground, exclaiming, "Be damned the hand that forged thee! To serve me so long, and fail me when thy true service would have honoured us both for ever!
Rochecliffe heard and understood the news brought by Colonel Everard, and, relieved from the instant anxiety which had kept him stationary, he advanced towards the retiring Calvinist, extending his hand in the most friendly manner. "Avoid thee Avoid thee!" said Holdenough, "the living may not join hands with the dead." "But I," said Rochecliffe, "am as much alive as you are." "Thou alive! thou!
"If you will not think better of it, sir," said Holdenough, "at least give not the poor man the means of destroying his senses Let me go to him as a divine, to watch with him, in case he may yet be admitted into the vineyard at the latest hour yet brought into the sheepfold, though he has neglected the call of the pastor till time is wellnigh closed upon him."
"All this may have been as you say, good Master Holdenough," answered the Colonel; "but my uncle is now old and feeble, and hath scarce a single follower remaining, and his daughter is a being whom to look upon would make the sternest weep for pity; a being who"
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