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Sir John became one of the executors with my mother, and at my wish, a year afterwards, I was sent to the university, where at least fifteen of my Lightfoots went also; and there I formed a new battalion of them, though we were watched at first, and even held in suspicion, because of the known friendship of Sir John for me; and he himself had twice been under arrest for his friendship to the Stuart cause.
That joy might have been clutched, but the life-stream has swept us by it the swift life-stream rushing to the nearing sea. Too late! too late! Twentystone my boy! when you read in the papers "Valse a deux temps," and all the fashionable dances taught to adults by "Miss Lightfoots," don't you feel that you would like to go in and learn? Ah, it is too late!
Sir John became one of the executors with my mother, and at my wish, a year afterwards, I was sent to the university, where at least fifteen of my Lightfoots went also; and there I formed a new battalion of them, though we were watched at first, and even held in suspicion, because of the known friendship of Sir John for me; and he himself had twice been under arrest for his friendship to the Stuart cause.
The deaf old gentleman bristled up here and asked who had been killed at the recent engagement. There was a man named Jeems Lee, a distant connection of the Lightfoots, not the Hampshire Lightfoots, but the Fauquier Lightfoots, who had distinctly appeared to the old gentleman for several nights, robed in black, and carrying a coffin under his arm.
The Major's fighting blood had stirred within his grandson's veins, and generations of dead Lightfoots were scenting the coming battle from the dust. When Dan thought now of the end to which he should presently be marching, it suggested to him but a quickened exhilaration of the pulses and an old engraving of "Waterloo," which hung on the dining-room wall at Chericoke.
And Sir John kept his word, liking me better from that day forth, and coming now and again to see me at the school, though he was much abroad in France giving many a pound to my Lightfoots, who were no worse soldiers for that. His eye ran us over sharply, and his head nodded, as we marched past him; and once I heard him say, 'If they had had but ten years each on their heads, my Prince!
They are too good Lightfoots." "I am not uneasy about Champe," rejoined his wife. "Champe has never been humoured as Dan has been, I'm glad to say." The Major started up as red as a beet. "Do you mean that I humour him, madam?" he demanded in a terrible voice. "Do pray, Mr.
"Oh, the Lightfoots are all alike, you know," he responded. "We are fond of saying that a strain of Lightfoot blood is good for two centuries of intermixing." Then, as he looked up at her faded wrapper and twisted curl papers, he flinched and turned away as if her ugliness afflicted his eyes. "Do not let me keep you," he added hastily.
I had ever been more eager than my strength thank God, that day is gone! and sometimes, after Latin and the drill of my Lightfoots, as I called them, I could have cried for weakness and weariness, had I been a girl and not a proud lad.
And Sir John kept his word, liking me better from that day forth, and coming now and again to see me at the school, though he was much abroad in France giving many a pound to my Lightfoots, who were no worse soldiers for that. His eye ran us over sharply, and his head nodded, as we marched past him; and once I heard him say, 'If they had had but ten years each on their heads, my Prince!
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