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"'Its name was Melcombe, and it came from the sea," Brandon repeated inwardly, adding, "Well, the ghost can have had nothing to do with this mystery. I shall trouble myself no more about him." "He was only about a year older than my oldest uncle," proceeded Laura, "for grandmother married at seventeen." Brandon looked again.
"Ay, sir, that be all." "I believe you this time." "'E may, sir, and God bless 'e." "The flower out of reach is dedicate to God." Tamil Proverb. Some one passing Valentine as he walked home in the gloaming, started, and hurried on. "He came up so still-like," she said, afterwards, "that I e'en took him for a sperit, he being a Melcombe, and they having a way of walking."
Wool became its staple trade, and in 1347 the port was rich enough to find twenty ships for the fleet besieging Calais. At this time Melcombe Regis began to assume as much importance as its neighbour across the harbour. The only communication between the two was then a ferry boat worked hand over hand by a rope.
A nurse was to have watched with him that night, but Brandon could not sleep, and he desired that she should rest in an adjacent room till he called her. In the meantime, never more hopeful since he had first seen Valentine on reaching Melcombe, he continued to sit by his bed, frequently repeating that he would go up-stairs shortly, but not able to do it.
As to whether he was ill, whether unhappy, or whether displeased, they could not agree among themselves, only, as by one consent, they forbore to question him; but while he vainly tried to be his old self, they vainly tried to treat him in the old fashion. He thought his brother seemed, with almost studied care, to avoid all reference to Melcombe.
"You said it was a good thing they dug the lily bed," answered her grand-daughter. "And nothing else?" "No, ma'am, no," answered the nurse; "and if you had, what would it signify?" Madam Melcombe let them settle her in her chair and give her her cordial, then she said "Folks are oft-times known to talk wild in their age. I thought I might be losing my wits; might have said something."
'Twould lie well within their shallow incapacities, methinks, to impute to Francis Bacon, Barrister of Gray's Inn, Member of Parliament for Melcombe, Reversionary Clerk of the Star Chamber, the friend of the Earl of Essex to impute to me, I say, these frothings of a villain player this Shake eh? What?" "Shakespeare." "Ay."
She thought of giving a house-warming; for several of the families round, whose fathers and mothers had been kept at arms' length by old Madam Melcombe till their children almost forgot that there was such a person, had now begun kindly to call on the lonely ladies, and express a wish to see something of them.
Valentine repeated what Miss Melcombe had told him. "So no doubt, papa, you'll give orders that it shall not be touched, as you are going to have all the place put in order." "Yes, yes, certainly my boy certainly he will," said Uncle Augustus, answering for his brother.
But I fancy that it was not read by any one but the dear grandmother till after poor Cuthbert Melcombe's sad death, and then I think the family lawyer found it among her papers when she had to inherit the estate. He may have wanted evidence, perhaps, that Augustus Melcombe was dead." "Perhaps so," said Valentine.
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