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He was in truth a fine fellow, tall, upright, and handsome, with the delicate Lantine hands and a face in which you saw his father's features refined and freshly coloured to the model of the Lantine portraits which hung in the best sitting-room to remind us of our lost glories. For me, I take after my mother, who was a farmer's daughter of no lineage.
For him the fun began and ended with the ambush, the supposed raid and its swashing deeds of valour; for her all these were but incident to a scheme, long brooded on, by which we were to amass plunder sufficient to buy back the family estate of Lantine with all the consequence due to an ancient name in which the rest of us forgot to feel any pride.
He picked his way carefully to shore and up the bank and reined up his dripping horse in the midst of us with a laugh. "Hats full, pockets full, eh? Good-evenin', naybours, and a merry Christmas, and I'm sure I wish you may get it. Which of 'ee may happen to be Master Ephr'm Lantine?" My father announced himself, and the trooper drew out a parchment and handed it.
The whole of our ground slopes towards the river; as also does the neighbour estate of Lantine, sometime in our family's possession, but now and for three generations past yielding us only its name. Three miles below us the river opens into Fowey Harbour, with Fowey town beside it and facing across upon the village of Polruan, and a fort on either shore to guard the entrance.
Austell, and tried to find that distance a sufficient excuse that he had spent the night a bare mile away, hobnobbing with the owner of Lantine, a rich man who had used to look down on our family but thought it worth while to make friends with this promising young soldier. "And I mean to be equal with him and his likes," said Mark to me afterwards by way of excuse.
A moment later she too staggered and fell sideways stunned by the wind of a round-shot. The firing ceased as suddenly as it began. I heard a voice saying as if it continued a discussion "And Lantine of all men! I'd have picked him for the levellest-headed man in the troop. By the way, he comes from these parts, I've heard say." And with that I ran to my sister's side.
She went to him, I following a pace behind. She put out a hand and touched the pistol in his sling. "Redeem." The voice was Margery's and yet not hers. "Redeem," she repeated "not Lantine." With a groan he ran round the gable of the cottage. A moment later we heard the gallop of his horse down the lane.
"'Tis a strange thing to me, Margery, that of us three you should be the one to think everything of the name of Lantine, who are a girl and must take another when you marry." She halted and turned on me with more anger than I had ever seen on her face. She even stamped her foot. "Never!" she said, and again "Never!"
But I hope in these days some few may serve his Majesty and yet prosper, and that my dear Margery may yet have her wish and be mistress in Lantine." Margery read this letter and knit her brow thoughtfully. "It was like Mark to think of writing so," said she; "but I have not thought of Lantine for this many a day."
Sampson's Church, with no more cause than old Parson Kendall's stuttering through the prayer for the King's Majesty and this long before the late trouble had come to distract our country. She walked our fields beside us, but in company with those who walked them no longer; when she looked towards Lantine 'twas with an angry affection.
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