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Sir Leoline Jenkins, Judge of the Admiralty, however, in a report to the king gave his opinion that although he saw little hope of real reparation, the granting of reprisals was not justified by law until the cases had been prosecuted at Havana according to the queen-regent's orders.
"Pshaw, man! don't make a mountain out of a mole-hill! Tell me her name!" "Her name is Leoline." "What else?" "That is just what I would like to have some one tell me. I give you my honor, my lord, I do not know." The earl's face, half indignant, half incredulous, wholly curious, made Ormiston smile. "It is a fact, my lord.
Sir Norman's feelings, which had been rising ever since their meeting, got up to such a height at this aggravating question, that he gave vent to an oath, and laid his hand on his sword; but the count's hand lightly interposed before it came out. "Not yet, Sir Norman. Be calm; talk rationally. What do you accuse me of doing with Leoline?" "Do you dare deny having carried her off?" "Deny it?
Some one was leaning against the mantel, his arm on it, and his eyes do her, gazing with an air of incomparable coolness and ease. It was a man this time something more than a man, a count, and Count L'Estrange, at that! Leoline sprang to her feet with a wild scream, a cry full of terror, amaze, and superstitious dread; and the count raised his band with a self-possessed smile.
Angry eyes and fierce faces were on every hand, and his dreams of matrimony and Leoline seemed about to terminate then and there, when luck came to his side, in the shape of her most gracious majesty the queen. Springing to her feet, she waved her sceptre, while her black eyes flashed as fiercely as the best of them, and her voice rang out like a trumpet-tone.
I acknowledge that I carried off Leoline, viewing her as my promised bride, and have sent her to my own home in the care of a trusty messenger, where I give you my word of honor, I have not been since. She is as safe there, and much safer than in her own house, until morning, and it would be a pity to disturb her at this unseasonable hour.
This, of course, can lead to but one result their overthrow and ultimate defeat; but it will also give our regiment an opportunity of gaining fresh laurels and again proving to these fellows how dangerous it is to measure weapons with British cavalry. We march the day after to-morrow." Thus spoke Colonel Leoline, commanding the regiment in which young Carlton was serving as a cornet.
"I greatly fear, fair Leoline, that I have startled you by my sudden and surprising entrance; and if I have been the cause of a moment's alarm to one so perfectly beautiful, I shall hate myself for ever after.
Now, I'm your nearest neighbor at present; so, to keep up a consistent Christian spirit, just be good enough to say you love me!" Again Leoline laughed; and this time the bright, dancing eyes beamed in their sparkling darkness full upon him. "I am afraid your theology is not very sound, my friend, and I have a dislike to extremes. There is a middle course, between hating and loving.
Probably Leoline was asleep, and would know nothing about it; or, even were she wide awake, and watchful, she was altogether too sensible a girl to be displeased at his anxiety about her.
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