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The room was full of men whose names were prominent in the history of the time, and these Sir John Loveday, and Lord Fairholm, who were lively young men, twenty-two or twenty-three years old, pointed out to him, often telling him a merry story or some droll jest regarding them.
Whereupon the corporal, 'with a sense that his time was getting wasted, inquired: 'Do she want to see or hear any more, or don't she? This is but a single detail in the account of a party which Miller Loveday gave to soldier guests in honor of his son John, a description the sustained vivacity of which can only be appreciated through a reading of those brilliant early chapters of the story.
Why should I mention the perjury of Smith, who, admitted king's-evidence, screened himself by accusing Fainloth and Loveday of the murder of Dunn? the first was executed, the second was about to share the same fate, when the perjury of Smith was incontrovertibly proved.
He touched his hat to her, keeping his right shoulder forwards, and said, 'Good-day, Miss Garland, with a smile. Anne replied, 'Good-day, with funereal seriousness; and the acquaintance thus revived led to the interchange of a few words at supper-time, at which Mrs. Loveday nodded with satisfaction.
The truth o't is, he's engaged just now at Portsmouth, like a good many of the rest from our ship. . . . 'Tis a very nice young woman that he's a courting of, and I make no doubt that she'll be an excellent wife for him. 'Ah! said Mrs. Loveday, in a warning tone. 'Courting wife? said the miller. They instinctively looked towards Anne.
And I hear that men from square-rigged vessels are liked much the best in the navy, as being more ready for use? So that I shouldn't be altogether so raw, said Bob earnestly, 'if I could enter on your ship, sir. Still, if I can't, I can't. 'I might ask for you, Loveday, said the captain thoughtfully, 'and so get you there that way. In short, I think I may say I will ask for you.
O'Hara rose to stand by a hearth, black-robed to the heels and tonsured, and at the angle of his jaw some sinews ribbed and moved: not a syllable now from him. "I am going in now to him", said Loveday: "if you care to wait here, I will see" and passing through a palace pretty busy that night with feet and a thousand working purposes, went to sit at the sick bed, the doctors retiring.
She had no explanation of the invasion till the next morning, when Loveday appeared full of excuses and apologies. From the fact of Lady Aresfield's carriage having been used on Aurelia's arrival, her imprisonment was known, and Lady Belle, spending a holiday at Lady Belamour's, had besieged Loveday with entreaties to take her to see her rival.
"What's puzzling me is that I can't believe the evidence of my own eyes. Did I dream I saw Loveday go downstairs and take a roll of papers out of Hilary's desk? Goodness, I was only too horribly awake! The queerness of the thing bothers me. It doesn't fit in, somehow. Loveday! Loveday's the last person in the world, as I should have thought, to do a trick like that. I can't understand it.
Bob sometimes told serious and correct stories about sea-captains, pilots, boatswains, mates, able seamen, and other curious fauna of the marine world; but these were directly addressed to his father and Mrs. Loveday, Anne being included at the clinching-point by a glance only.
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