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Holford returning from the bay, was met by this ship, and the captains being very well acquainted with each other, Holford was invited to dine aboard, which he did. As he passed along to the cabin, he chanced to cast his eye down into the hold, and there saw Charles Vane at work: he immediately spoke to the captain, saying, "Do you know whom you have got aboard there?"
The careless rebuilding of the columns shows that it is not in its original position. Holford, a village 6 m. E. from Williton, at the foot of the Quantocks. Its church is picturesquely situated; in the graveyard is an old cross with a mutilated figure on the shaft. Near Holford is Alfoxden, the residence of Wordsworth in 1797, when Coleridge was at Nether Stowey. Holton, a village 2-1/2 m.
He was not like the man who had bound me so cruelly in Holford combe on the Quantocks. "Evan," I cried, "what you did for me at the ealdorman's gate is enough to win any pardon you may need." "It is wonderful that, after all, pardon should come from you, Thane. Do you mind how I said to you that I hoped to win it otherwise through you when we took you on the Quantocks?
'Ladies and gentlemen, he said, 'and friends assembled, I have a piece of news for you. Mr. Francis Holford King, late Commander in Her Majesty's Navy, has just contracted a what d'ye call it? kind of engagement with Miss Anne Beresford of that ilk. It strikes me this is what is termed consolation-stakes 'There you are quite wrong, said Madge, promptly and cheerfully.
This, then, was how it came about that Commander Francis Holford King, R.N., was summoned home from the West Indies, where he had been with his ship, the Hellespont.
"He went not into such matters, leaving these to be talked over after it had been settled whether his offer should be accepted or not. He purposes well by you, and regards you as his heir. He has already bought Blunt and Mardyke's farms, and purposes to buy other parts of the estates of Sir James Holford, as they may slip through the knight's fingers at the gambling table.
He told him, "He might easily find a way to get off, if he had a mind to it: I am going down the bay," said he, "and shall return hither in about a month, and if I find you upon the island when I come back, I'll carry you to Jamaica, and there hang you." "How can I get away?" answered Vane. "Are there not fishermen's dories upon the beach? Can't you take one of them?" replied Holford.
So I waited a little longer in the safe recesses of the deep combe until a great gray cloud covered all the tops of the hills above me, and I thought it well to cross the open under its shelter to Holford Coombe, which I did. There I loitered again, hearing the stags belling at times across the hollows to one another, but hardly wishful to meet with them in their anger.
Waiting so, I waxed hungry, for nought had I tasted, save a few birds' eggs that I had found in Holford Coombe, since that time yesterday. Birds' eggs, thought I, were better than nought, so I wandered among the bushes seeking more.
Miss Madge went upstairs to her room, but instead of composing her mind to sleep, she took out writing materials and wrote this letter: 'Dear old Mother Nan You won't guess who is below at this moment 11 p.m. playing billiards with Tom and Mr. Roberts. Captain King. If I were he I would call myself Holford King, for that sounds better.
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