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It contained some account of the writer's previous journey since parting with him, and then proceeded as follows: "And now, why will you still upbraid me with my melancholy, Mervyn?
Now consolation and counsel were more needed than ever, and delay or reluctance in bestowing it would have been, in a high degree, unpardonable. I therefore parted with Mervyn, requesting him to await my return, and promising to perform the engagement which compelled me to leave him, with the utmost despatch.
So she had only time to form an eternal friendship with Miss Matilda Marchmont, a young lady about her own age, which was nearly eighteen. To her faithful eye were addressed those formidable quires which issued forth from Mervyn Hall on the wings of the post while Miss Mannering was a guest there. The perusal of a few short extracts from these may be necessary to render our story intelligible.
I therefore usually take a book for an hour or two after retiring to my own room, which I think I have told you opens to a small balcony, looking down upon that beautiful lake of which I attempted to give you a slight sketch. Mervyn Hall, being partly an ancient building, and constructed with a view to defence, is situated on the verge of the lake.
I desired Mervyn to linger a moment while I returned into the house. I once more inquired for the keeper, and told him I should leave to him the province of acquainting Welbeck with the necessity of sharing his apartment with a stranger. I speedily rejoined Mervyn in the street. I lost no time in requiring an explanation of the scene that I had witnessed.
'I implore of you, Sir, as you hope for mercy, don't trifle in this matter, cried Mervyn, whose face was white, like that of a man about to swoon under an operation. 'Trifle! What d'ye mean, Sir? barked out Dangerfield, rabidly. 'I mean, Sir, this I've information he's positively living, and can relieve my father's memory from the horrible imputation that rests upon it. You know who I am!
"Was it really in Haversleigh Church that Sir Mervyn climbed into the belfry and was killed?" "Or did the writer make that up?" "No, that is true too," replied Monica. "The tower is still called 'Sir Mervyn's Tower', and it is said there is the stain of his blood on the great bell, and that nothing can ever take it off." "Have you seen it?" "Yes, once. It's only a patch of rust."
If any man chooses to rob Arthur Mervyn of the contents of his purse, supposing the said Arthur has not means of defence, or the skill and courage to use them, the assizes at Lancaster or Carlisle will do him justice by tucking up the robber; yet who will say I am bound to wait for this justice, and submit to being plundered in the first instance, if I have myself the means and spirit to protect my own property?
Mervyn; who he is, and what his story. 'Tut, tut! little rogue 'Yes, indeed, you must, and you will; you've kept your little Lily waiting long enough for it, and she'll promise to tell nobody. 'Handsome he is, and strange, no doubt it was a strange fancy that funeral. Strange, indeed, said the rector. 'What funeral, darling?
He went, accordingly, to Edinburgh and elsewhere, and it was in his return towards the south-western district of Scotland, in which our scene lies, that, at a post-town about a hundred miles from Kippletringan, to which he had requested his friend, Mr. Mervyn, to address his letters, he received one from that gentleman which contained rather unpleasing intelligence.
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