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Updated: May 6, 2025
Levens Hall, it appeared, was to be let for the spring the famous Elizabethan house, five miles from Kendal, and about a mile from Sizergh. I had already seen Levens; and we took the chance at once. Bannisdale in the novel is a combination, I suppose, of Sizergh and Levens.
"It will hardly be possible to ask Miss Boyce here unless she does!" said Aldous. "And you reckon that I am not likely to go to Mellor, even to see her? And you want me to say a word to other people to the Winterbournes and the Levens, for instance?" "Precisely," said Aldous. Lord Maxwell meditated; then rose. "Let me now appease the memory of Clarke by going to bed!"
Scattergood stepped forward as the coroner turned the face up to the light of the sun. "It was a death by violence," said Scattergood. "It may be murder.... Asa Levens wears, as he lies, the face of a man who troubled God...." There was none in that little group to comprehend his meaning. "There was no struggle," said the coroner. "He never knowed he was shot," said Jed Lewis.
"What's the meanin' of this?" "I knowed she was somewheres Tuesday," Scattergood said, impersonally. "Didn't know where, but I mistrusted she'd been to that place frequent. Jest got in and give her her head. She brought me.... Asa Levens is dead." "Dead!" said Jed Briggs in a hushed voice.
He hesitated, trying, even at the moment that an impulse of jealous alarm which astonished himself had taken possession of him, to find the moderate and measured phrase. "I have known him from a boy," he said. "He is a connection of the Levens, and used to be always there in old days. He is very brilliant and very gifted " "Your 'but' must be very bad," she threw in, "it is so long in coming."
From twelve thousand throats one great sigh went up, like the sigh of wind upon the sea, and ere it died away, from either end of the arena, like arrows from the bow, like levens from a cloud, the champions started forth, their stallions gathering speed at every stride. Look, they met! Fair on each shield struck a lance, and backward reeled their holders.
The jagged hail was a herald of our coming; the levens that smote and stabbed were our sword and spear, while ever the hurricane roared and screamed with a million separate voices which blended to one yell of sound, hideous and indescribable. As for the hosts about us they melted and were gone.
Levens has always been cared for and lived in by people who had money to spend upon the house and garden they loved, and the result is a wonderful example of Elizabethan and Jacobean decoration, mellowed by time into a perfect whole.
He looked like a fighter; he was a fighter a willing fighter, and folks up and down the valley stepped aside if it was noised about that Abner Levens had broken loose. It was not that Abner delighted in the fruit of the vine nor the essence of the maize; he was a teetotaler.
Lindy Briggs uttered a choking cry and clutched her husband; Jed Briggs stared at Scattergood with hunted eyes. "It'll be best for you to tell. I'm standin' your friend, Jed Briggs.... Better tell me than the sheriff.... Asa Levens was here Tuesday night...." "He excused us from payin' our int'rest," said Jed, and then he, too, laughed shrilly. "Let us off our int'rest.
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