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"Tush, man," replied the traveller, "never fear but you will have credit by your nephew yet, especially if he be the Michael Lambourne whom I knew, and loved very nearly, or altogether, as well as myself. Can you tell me no mark by which I could judge whether they be the same?"
"Egad, ma'am, let me have the luxury of hating you. For I am the Wavertons' gentleman usher and you are the nonpareil Miss Lambourne, vastly rich and " he ended with a shrug and a rueful grin. "And ?" Miss Lambourne softly insisted. "And damnably lovely. Lord, you know that." "I thank God," said Miss Lambourne devoutly. "Is it true, Mr. Boyce do the meek inherit the earth?"
But Lambourne, who, amidst the profusion of that day's hospitality, had not failed to take a deep though not an overpowering cup of sack, was not in the humour of humbling himself before any man's looks.
"It's a fascinating family, the family of Boyce," said he to himself. Miss Lambourne sat herself down beside Harry before he chose to be aware of her coming. He started up and obsequiously drew away. "You are very coy, Mr. Boyce," said the lady. Harry replied, with the servile laughter of a dependent, "Oh, ma'am, you are mocking me." "Tit for tat" Alison's eyes had some fire in them.
"Leave thy clothes and baggage under charge of mine host; and I will conduct thee to a service, in which, if thou do not better thyself, the fault shall not be fortune's, but thine own." "Brave and hearty!" said Lambourne, "and I am mounted in an instant. Knave, hostler, saddle my nag without the loss of one second, as thou dost value the safety of thy noddle.
Harry and Alison, face to face, and sufficiently close, eyed each other with some amusement. "Oh, Mr. Boyce," said she, and shook her head. "Oh, Miss Lambourne," Harry exhorted in his turn. "You have fallen. You have walked into my parlour." "I am the best of sons, ma'am. I endure all things at my father's orders even spiders." She still eyed him steadily, searching him, and was still amused.
"If it please your worship," answered the messenger, "he looked out of window, with a musquetoon in his hand, and when I delivered your errand, which I did with fear and trembling, he said, with a vinegar aspect, that your worship might be gone to the infernal regions." "Or to hell, I suppose," said Lambourne "it is there he disposes of all that are not of the congregation."
But come forth, Bayard," he added, leading his horse into the courtyard, "for your flanks and my spurs must be presently acquainted." Lambourne mounted, accordingly, and left the Castle by the postern gate, where his free passage was permitted, in consequence of a message to that effect left by Sir Richard Varney.
The freedom of the corporation was presented to the Earl upon knee by the magistrates of the place, together with a purse of gold pieces, which the Earl handed to Varney, who, on his part, gave a share to Lambourne, as the most acceptable earnest of his new service.
He spoke truth, for Varney had taken the opportunity to regain his weapon, and Tressilian perceived it was madness to press the quarrel further against such odds. He took his purse from his side, and taking out two gold nobles, flung them to Lambourne. "There, caitiff, is thy morning wage; thou shalt not say thou hast been my guide unhired.
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