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He was sent to do penance at Rome, and Hubert's enemies continued their machinations. Henry and his Queen were tired of the sage counsels of the brave knight, and open to all Des Roches' insinuations, forgetting the wise though punning warning of the wonderful Franciscan friar, Roger Bacon, who told Henry there was nothing so dangerous in a voyage as "les Pierres et les Roches."
They had taken a villa at Deauville, and in the morning papers Undine followed the chronicle of Hubert's polo scores and of the Countess Hubert's racing toilets. The days crawled on with a benumbing sameness.
She went back into the tent and slipped the revolver into the holster he had left lying on a stool, and, tucking it and Saint Hubert's novel, which she took from the bookcase, under her arm, went into the bed-room and, calling to Zilah to pull off her riding-boots, threw herself on the bed to laze away the morning, and to try and picture the author from the book he had written.
Eldon that I hope she will take her own time. On reflection this seemed rather an ill-chosen phrase; he bettered it. 'I should be very sorry if she inconvenienced herself on my account. 'Confound the fellow's impudence! was Hubert's mental comment. 'He plays the forbearing landlord. His spoken reply was: 'It is very kind of you. I foresee no difficulty in completing the removal on Monday.
The wild rose of her cheeks made rivalry for an instant with the richer garden blooms, and the subsiding warmth left a pearly translucency as of a lily petal against the light. She held her hand to him, delicately gloved, warm; the whole of it was hidden within Hubert's clasp. 'What were you looking at so attentively? he asked.
Wanley is his; the personal property will be divided among several. 'The people have not come forward? 'We presume they do not even know of Mr. Mutimer's death. There has been no direct communication between him and them for many years. Hubert's next question was, 'What shall you do, mother? 'Does it interest you, Hubert? I am too feeble to move very far.
As a squire, he could only go to the Holy Land in attendance upon some one else, nor could he carry the sword and belt of the dead man whom he was to represent. A knight must personate a knight. Hence Hubert's words. "It is for that purpose we have sent for thee," replied the earl. "I am ready, my lord, and willing."
Who knows any thing about him? Who can vouch for his character? I would not suffer a daughter of mine to be gadding about, and dancing with a stranger." "Whoy, for the matter o' that," said Farmer Ellis, "you were nought but a stranger yourself, when you first did come to see us, Maister Pembroke. We didn't know you were the sexton of St. Hubert's.
'I assure you there is no need for you to reproach yourself. Dinner is ready. She took his arm, and they went into the dining-room. No further mention was made of Mr. Burnett, of money matters, or of the young lady up-stairs; and with considerable tact Mrs. Bentley introduced the subject of literature, alluding gracefully to Hubert's position as a dramatist.
Then the King muttered in his beard, "Now, blessed Saint Hubert, if thou wilt but jog that rogue's elbow so as to make him smite even the second ring, I will give eightscore waxen candles three fingers'-breadth in thickness to thy chapel nigh Matching." But it may be Saint Hubert's ears were stuffed with tow, for he seemed not to hear the King's prayer this day.
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