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It was no other than that she should throw off the mantle, which, while he pressed the silver cup of wine upon her, she had drawn more closely around her form, so as almost to shroud herself within it. "Cast it from you!" exclaimed Jervase Helwyse, clasping his hands in an agony of entreaty. "It may not yet be too late! Give the accursed garment to the flames!"
The Englishman, when his skin, is full of grog, glows with idolatry for his country, and his favorite lass; and so does the American: The former sings the victories of Bembow, How, Jervase and Nelson; while the latter sing the same songs, only substituting the names of Preble, Hull, Decatur and Bainbridge, Perry and Macdonough. Our men parodied all the English national songs.
"Lady Eleanore! princess! queen of Death!" cried Jervase Helwyse, advancing three steps into the chamber. "She is not here. There, on yonder table, I behold the sparkle of a diamond which once she wore upon her bosom. There" and he shuddered "there hangs her mantle, on which a dead woman embroidered a spell of dreadful potency. But where is the Lady Eleanore?"
"O Jervase Helwyse," said the voice and as it spoke the figure contorted itself, struggling to hide its blasted face "look not now on the woman you once loved! The curse of Heaven hath stricken me, because I would not call man my brother, nor woman sister.
He would fain have been more relenting had he dared, but he feared the loss of his own manhood if he once began to pardon, and perhaps he was severer to himself than to the old man who begged for his forgiveness. 'There's the 'and, said Jervase, weeping openly. 'He won't touch that. There's the commission only waiting for him to sign, and he won't touch that.
But Lady Eleanore, with a laugh of scorn, drew the rich folds of the embroidered mantle over her head, in such a fashion as to give a completely new aspect to her beautiful face, which half hidden, half revealed seemed to belong to some being of mysterious character and purposes. "Farewell, Jervase Helwyse!" said she. "Keep my image in your remembrance, as you behold it now."
'I beg your pardon, said Jervase, suddenly cooling down. 'I beg ten thousand pardons I beg Miss Irene's pardon most of all. I forgot myself, and I apologise. He bowed to the girl and fell to pacing up and down the room, casting glances of wrath at the messenger of ill news. The General, fearing a new outburst, turned to the old lady with his courtliest air.
The boy turned away, groaning, and the General looked after him with a face from which all sternness disappeared for a moment. 'Poor lad! 'he said, within doors. 'Poor lad! 'Now, look here, said John Jervase, 'they haven't got any evidence agen you any more than they have agen me. The whole thing's a put-up job.
'When we touched at Corfu, said the General, 'I found a letter from my London agents I'd like you to see it, and I shall be glad if you can confirm its contents, or at least a part of them. De Blacquaire took the proffered letter and read: 'Sir, : We are instructed to inform you that a sum of fifty thousand pounds has been deposited with us to your credit by Mr. John Jervase, of Beacon Hargate.
There was silence in the room except for those child-like, unrestrained sobs which shook John Jervase; and even these quieted down as if he too were listening to the growing tumult outside. There was a sudden roll of drums, and the band began to play 'The Girl I left behind me. An imperious rap sounded at the door, and Colonel Stacey entered without waiting for a response.
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