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Notwithstanding that it had been Miss Lestrange's audacious proposal that they should go masquerading in the open air, she was a wise young virgin, and she took care before going out to thrust a soft silk handkerchief into the square opening of her dress; the Ladies Sybil and Rosamund followed her example by drawing lace scarfs round their necks and shoulders; it was the young matron who was reprehensibly careless, and who, when the French windows were thrown open, went forth boldly, and without any wrap at all, into the cool air of the dawn.
A single glance, however, sufficed to reveal that the shrine of innocent girlhood had already been violated, for it, too, like Mr Lestrange's, had been turned topsy-turvy by the savages. But Nell where was she?
Before the Revolution one of his heterodox treatises had been grievously mutilated by Lestrange, and at last suppressed by orders from Lestrange's superior the Bishop of London. Bohun was a scarcely less severe critic than Lestrange. Blount therefore began to make war on the censorship and the censor.
So Lionel set to work to form a seat for Miss Honnor, out of some bracken that the gillies had cut and brought along; and also he exclusively looked after her to Miss Georgie Lestrange's chagrin; for Lord Rockminster was too lazy to attend to any one but himself, and what girl likes being waited on by her brother when other young men are about?
So Richard's letter only had it hot; it went into the fire, and Bab never read the petition of her poor friend. The next morning Richard went to the shop, and fell to the first job that came to his hand. He acquainted his father with Lestrange's proposal in regard to the library: Mr. Tuke would have him accept it. "You shall have all it brings," he said.
Most of the islands are civilised now. Of course there are a few that aren't, but still, suppose even that `savages, as you call them, had come and taken the children off " Lestrange's breath caught, for this was the very fear that was in his heart, though he had never spoken it. "Well?" "Well, they would be well treated." "And brought up as savages?" "I suppose so." Lestrange sighed.
"See, here is a flask filled with famous stuff. You take it you and Alec; I don't want any more to-day." "Do not be so sure of that," the keeper said, shrewdly, and he modestly declined to take Percy Lestrange's decorated flask. "It's a long walk from home we are; far longer than you think; and mebbe there will be some showers before we get back home."
"No, no; you turn in with me, and we'll show them a sight! a gentleman that can make his living with his own hands! The country shall see sir Wilton Lestrange's heir a blacksmith because he wouldn't be a snob and deny his own flesh and blood! 'I saw your son to-day, sir Wilton at the anvil with his grandfather! What a fine fellow he do be!
Fearing now, and indeed quite expecting, the worst, after casting a hurried glance about the hall I made my way straight to Mr Lestrange's bedroom; and there, just inside the wide-open door, lay the poor fellow, clad only in his sleeping garb, with three ghastly assagai wounds in his body, and one through his throat which had severed the jugular vein.
He asked himself what Nina would say to him if she knew of these escapades. He held his back to the wind until he was frozen that way; then he turned his face to the chill blast, folding his arms across his chest. He took a sip from Percy Lestrange's flask; but that was more for employment than anything else, for he discovered there was no real warmth to be got that way.
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