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Updated: May 12, 2025
'Now you look here, said John Jervase, heavily and solidly, 'I've had pretty nearly two years to think this thing over in. I've done wrong, and I own up to it There's my boy, Polly, as is recommended for the Victoria Cross by Sir Colin Campbell, and fetched you out of the fire under the Malakoff, so I'm told, as if you'd been his very born brother.
He made way for Jervase Helwyse, who immediately ascended the staircase, but, on the first landing place, was arrested by the firm grasp of a hand upon his shoulder. Looking fiercely up, with a madman's impulse to struggle with and rend asunder his opponent, he found himself powerless beneath a calm, stern eye, which possessed the mysterious property of quelling frenzy at its height.
For as the charging regiment was in amongst the lingerers of the retreat, the pursuit was called away. The keener spirits had naturally ridden furthest, and there was no man there that day who was keener than Polson Jervase.
Jervase made no pretence of courting sleep at all: but having banked up the fire he went down into the cellar, brought up a couple of bottles of brandy, and prepared himself to make a night of it. It had not been his habit for years to drink to excess, but in his earlier days at any time of trouble he had gone to that false solace, and now the instinct came back to him.
'You know, said James, 'that his property and ours neighboured each other. The young skunk has trumped up a charge against us of having tapped his brine, and having lived on the property of his estate for twenty years past. 'Well, said John Jervase, 'that's a pretty cool piece of impudence, to be sure! But what is there to make a howl about?
And libel's libel in this country, James, and them as chooses to talk it can be made to pay for it And any man as assaults the honest fame of Jack Jervase has got Jack Jervase to tackle, my lad. I've fowt the Queen's enemies, and I've fowt my own, and I'll stand fightin' till I die. 'My dear Jervase, said the General. 'My dear Mr. James!
And look here, old chap, you think twice about it. 'I've told you already, Polson answered, 'I've done all my thinking. 'Well, said Volnay, 'wilful must if wilful will. You haven't been getting into any sort of mischief, have you? 'No, said Polson. 'I've done nothing that I have a right to be ashamed of. 'Had a row with the old man? 'Yes. 'Go home and make it up again, Jervase.
You've left nothing to be traced to you if you could help it. You've thrust me into the mire so that you could walk over dry-shod. 'You've had your share of the spoil, haven't you, you lean hypocrite? asked Jervase. 'If you'll only do as I bid you now I'll pull you through. He had turned to address his cousin, and now he showed him a disdainful back, and came face to face with his son again.
There's the commission chucked, and there's the check too dirty for you to look at. Very well. Now there's fifty notes for twenty pounds a-piece. Will you take them? 'No, said the youngster, 'I shall have no want of money and no use for it. 'You're hard, said Jervase. 'You're bitter hard. Will you take one of them? It might come in useful. Take it, Polly.
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