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Longstaffe quietly and obviously happy, but he and his son-in-law, who was but five years his junior, showed themselves to be unusually good friends. And there was no doubt the marriage was a success. The content on Patience Woodburn's face was evidence enough of that. How far the strange and apparently ill-assorted couple affected each other it was difficult to say.
"We have let in a little light at all events," he said, "that will always be something to the good. Now, mother, let me have some lunch; for I cannot stay above an hour or so. I have to see Longstaffe. There has been a great deal to do." "Mr. Longstaffe, I am sure, will not give you any trouble that he can help." "He is giving me a great deal of trouble," said the young man, with lowering brows.
"My son tells me," she said, as indifferently as possible, "that there is a great deal going on between him and you." "Naturally," cried Mr. Longstaffe, with a certain heat of indignation. "He is making a marriage which is not at all a common kind of marriage, and yet he would have liked it to be without any settlements at all."
Longstaffe slipped from his horse, which he left to be rescued by whom it might from amongst the hard-angled cases. 'Assuredly, he said, 'there is no love between that beast and me as there was betwixt his lord and Bucephalus, and he followed Udal into the galleried courtyard, where their two gowned figures alone sought shelter from the March showers.
Longstaffe said, in his brusque way, that he thought Master Geoff he begged his pardon, little Lord Markland would be better at his lessons; while Mr. Scarsdale put on a very grave air, and remarked that he feared Dickinson might have things to tell his mistress which were not fit for a little boy's ears.
"That we have studied together," she said, "with most of the ignorance on my side, and most of the knowledge on yours. Oh, I am not too humble. I allow that I sometimes see my way out of a difficulty, with a jump, before you have reasoned it out. That sort of thing is conceded to a woman. I am 'not without intelligence, Mr. Longstaffe himself says.
And she repeated to him that Longstaffe had reported the King's commanding Katharine and Privy Seal to join hands and be friends. Udal shook his head gloomily. 'I would not have my best pupil friends with Cromwell, he said.
He was a fair, bearded youth with blue eyes, riding a restless colt that embroiled itself and plunged amongst the mules' legs. The young man leaned forward in the saddle and craned to avoid a clothes chest. The magister called to him: 'Ho, Longstaffe! and having caught his pleased eyes: 'Ecce quis sto in arce plenitatis. Veni atque bibe! Magister sum. Udal sum. Longstaffe ave.
Send for Wilberforce, who will be impartial; and if you could have Longstaffe too " Minnie came in, out of breath, at this stage of the affairs. "What does he say, Eustace, oh, what does he say? Are you sure it is true? What has he got to say? And what does he mean about Mr. Longstaffe and Mr. Wilberforce? Aren't you good enough for him? Can't you judge without Wilberforce?
Lady Markland sat at her table, pondering a letter from Mr. Longstaffe. She had it spread out before her, but she could only half see the words, and only half understand what they meant. She had read in Theo's eyes upon the previous day all. Had he but known he had nothing to reveal to her, nothing that she could not have told him beforehand!
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