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And this she resented slightly, for she badly wanted somebody to say something, either vindictive or consolatory. Then, indignation getting the better alike of reticence and charity, she exclaimed: "It is unpardonable. It ought to be impossible one person should have power to kill another by inches, like this, with impunity." Ludovic Quayle had sauntered into the room behind Julius March.
I have said nothing to anybody as yet not even to Fanny; but I can see in her face, and hear in the tones of her voice, that she is suffering some great sorrow." "I know all about it," said Lord Lufton. "You know all about it, Ludovic?" "Yes; it is through that precious friend of mine, Mr. Sowerby, of Chaldicotes. He has accepted bills for Sowerby; indeed, he told me so."
And Ludovic Gordon bowed low over Marget's worn hand as if she had been a queen. Marget lifted Plato, and it seemed to me that day as if the dignity of our Lady of Sorrows had fallen upon her. "This is the buik George chose for you, Maister Maclean, for he aye said to me ye hed been a prophet and shown him mony deep things." The tears sprang to the Celt's eyes.
"It is Ludovic Lesly, Sire, whom we call Le Balafré," replied the old soldier. "But is he noble?" said the Duke. "Is he of gentle blood? Otherwise our promise is void." "I will warrant him a branch of the tree of Rother, as noble as any house in France or Burgundy," said Crawford.
Generally speaking, his manner was open, gentle, and unguarded; but now he spoke as though he had prepared his words, and was resolved on being harsh as well as obstinate. "I am so much taken by surprise, Ludovic, that I can hardly give you an answer.
How often must I tell you, and especially both you, Ludovic Lesly, and you, Archie Cunningham, that the foreign soldier should bear himself modestly and decorously towards the people of the country if you would not have the whole dogs of the town at your heels? "May it please your Lordship" said Durward. "Is the lad crazed?" exclaimed his uncle.
Everybody did see it in fact, he feared, and commented upon it in no charitable spirit. Hostility towards her declared itself on every side. He detected that or imagined he did so in Lady Louisa's expression, in Ludovic Quayle's extra-superfine smile, in the doctor's close and rather cynical attitude of observation, and, last but not least, in the reserve of his mother's bearing and manner.
How can one plead one's cause justly before a tribunal which is manifestly unjust, which is determined to do injustice? Moreover, was she not bound to secrecy? Had not secrecy been implied in that forgiveness which she had promised to Ludovic as the condition of his going? He had accepted the condition and gone. After that, would she not be treacherous to betray him?
"I don't like the idea of parting with an acre of it," he had said. "Of course not, Ludovic. Never let the estate decrease in your hands. It is only by such resolutions as that that English noblemen and English gentlemen can preserve their country. I cannot bear to see property changing hands."
Then he returned to Lucca, and was received with every sort of joy. About this time Ludovic of Bavaria came into Italy seeking the Imperial Crown, and Castruccio went to meet him with 500 horse, leaving Pagolo Guinigi his Deputy in Lucca.
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