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On the fifteenth day after leaving Alnwick they arrived at Ludlow Castle, of which Mortimer was the lord. Oswald was at once conducted to the hall where the knight was sitting. "I am bearer of a message from Sir Henry Percy," he said; "he has sent hither a party of twenty men-at-arms, under the command of the captain of his garrison, at Alnwick."
"These affairs don't concern you," he said, after a moment's incredulous scrutiny of her face. "Why did you refuse to make him a judge?" she repeated hotly. "Ludlow is a discredited political hack. I had no alternative." "It's jealousy." Shelby whitened. "If you mean to press the thing into that region," he answered sternly, "I'll own that there is an element of jealousy.
"Your brigantine has a name, sirrah; and, in Her Majesty's authority, I demand to know it." "Heaven forbid that any here should dispute the Queen's right! You are a seaman, Captain Ludlow, and have an eye for comeliness in a craft, as well as in a woman. Look at those harpings!
As soon as we were alone in the bed room, Ludlow began to complain of the injustice of my Father; adding, that he had no right to take him back, that he might do what he pleased as to his son, but he should not take him back. I told him this was very brave talking, but that he knew nothing of my Father if he expected to escape, either by blustering or reasoning.
There had been a great deal of talk that session about Mr. Ludlow's methods. Freckles himself was no snob. Although he had heard Mr. Ludlow called disgraceful, and although he firmly believed he was disgraceful, he did not consider that any reason for not speaking to him. And so when Mr.
All distinctions of rank and authority had ceased, except as deference was paid to natural qualities and the intelligence of experience. Under such circumstances, the 'Skimmer of the Seas' took the lead; and though Ludlow caught his ideas with professional quickness, it was the mind of the free-trader that controlled, throughout, the succeeding exertions of that fearful night.
The reason of this was that the garrison was frightened at seeing the war ships which Ludlow brought against them as, long before, some old priest or wizard had made a prophecy that when such vessels should appear on the lake, all would be up with the castle. So superstition makes cowards of the bravest men.
During the time the ship was handing her sails, and preparing to enter the Cove, no one had leisure to look for the stranger; and after the vessel had anchored, until that moment, it was not possible to see her length, on any side of them. There was still a dense mass of falling water moving seaward; but the curious and anxious eyes of Ludlow made fruitless efforts to penetrate its secrets.
That such flimsy pretences should satisfy the judgment of the protector is improbable; his mind was swayed by very different motives the prospect of reaping, at a small cost, an abundant harvest of wealth and glory, and the opportunity of Ludlow, ii. 51, 105. engaging in foreign service the officers of whose fidelity at home he had good reason to be jealous.
In the renunciation in which the worshipper confirmed her saint, Ludlow and his rights and feelings were ignored, and Cornelia herself was offered nothing more substantial than the prospect that henceforth she and Charmian could live for each other in a union that should be all principle on one side and all adoration on the other. Cornelia did not go to pass that week in Lent with Mrs. Westley.
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