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I have told you, Richard, there has been no sensation in town equal to that of your Maryland beauty, since Lady Sarah Lennox. You may have some notion of the old beau Horry can be when he tries, and he is over-fond of Miss Dolly she puts him in mind of some canvas or other of Sir Peter's.
Horry was describing how Richard lifted little Goble by one hand and spun all the dignity out of him, when Miss Manners broke in, being able to contain herself no longer. "'An American, Mr. Walpole, and from Maryland? she demanded. And the way she said it made them all look at her. "'Assurement, mademoiselle, replied Horry, in his cursed French; and perhaps you know him.
What have you heard from Horry Walpole?" "Nothing, your la'ship," says I, very demure. "Well," says she, "'t is reported the King has forbid him to speak to his fair widow, and she is gone out of town. He has given her two pearl bracelets worth five hundred pound. That's not for nothing surely. But for what?"
And there was a prodigious deal of jealousy among the fair ones on the benches, you may be sure, and much jaundiced comment. "Some half dozen of us adorers have a mess at the Bear, and have offered up a prize for the most appropriate toast on the beauty. This is in competition with Mrs. Miller. Have you not heard of her among your tobacco-hills? Horry calls her Mrs. 'Calliope' Miller.
On one occasion, Horry had three men wounded near Georgetown. A surgeon of the Tories was then a prisoner in his ranks, yet he positively refused to dress the wounds, and suffered a fine youth named Kolb, to bleed to death before his eyes, from a slight injury upon the wrist. "Will you deliver me the sword or not, Major ?" was the answer which Marion made to this suggestion.
At most a quiet smile lighted up his features, and he could deal in little gushes of humor, of which there was a precious fountain at the bottom of his heart. That he was capable of a sharp sarcasm, was also generally understood among his friends. Horry remarks, that few men ever excelled him at retort.
Naturally this voyage out through the bay and into the illimitable ocean was sure to be either a delight or a most unpleasant experience. Happily it was the former. She proved to be a good sailor. "You was born for a sailor's bride, miss," Horry told her. But he said it when nobody else was by to see the blush which stained her cheek.
It was at this period that Marion held a consultation with Horry, in which he is represented by that officer as in an unusual state of despondency. His enemies were accumulating around him with unwonted rapidity, and in greater force than ever.
The dragoons, taken by surprise, turned in flight, and, smiting at every step, the partisans pursued them with fatal earnestness. But two men are reported to have escaped death or captivity, and they were their captain and a sergeant. It was in approaching to encounter Merritt that Horry discovered that he was weaponless.
"Bless me," said Horry, looking very hard at me, "so it is, so it is. Your hand, Mr. Carvel. You have only to remain in London, sir, to discover that your reputation is ready-made. I contributed my mite. For you must know that I am a sort of circulating library of odd news which those devils, the printers, contrive to get sooner or later Heaven knows how!
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