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Updated: May 8, 2025
Not that I really understand it as I ought to have done when the poor child was left to me. The part between brackets was omitted by Miss Mohun in the public reading, but the last sentence she did read, thinking it good for both parties to hear it.
"True and to think that all this time you have, perhaps, regarded me as a criminal, Surry! But I am one that is I was in intent if not in reality. Yes, my dear friend," Mohun added, with a deep sigh, his head sinking upon his breast, "there was a day in my life when I was insane, a simple madman, and on that day I attempted to commit murder, and suicide!
"For God's sake don't murder me!" he gasped out; "I I gave it to Miss Bellasys." "Of course you did," Mohun said, coolly; "I knew it all along. Now get up, and write that down." He spurned away the fallen man as he spoke till he rolled over and over on the floor. There is nothing which disconcerts a nature long used to obey like a sudden brutal coup de main.
When I was shot, on the next morning, the bullet struck the book and glanced. Had the Bible not been there, that bullet would have pierced my heart. As it was, it only wounded me in the breast. Here is my old Bible I carry it about me still." As he spoke, Mohun drew from his breast the small leather-bound volume, in the cover of which was visible a deep gash.
Before me, in the illuminated apartment, I saw the woman whom Mohun had captured on the Rappahannock; and beside her the personage with whom she had escaped that morning in the wagon from Culpeper Court-House. I could not mistake him. The large, prominent nose, the cunning eyes, the double chin, the fat person, and the chubby hands covered with pinchbeck rings, were still fresh in my memory.
I would have stated them to you in the Wilderness, but you were unable to meet me or to General Mohun, but his violence defeated every thing. You meet me now, and without discussion, demand the paper. I reply, that I have not brought it with me, but three days from this time will meet you at a spot agreed on, with the document, for which you will return me my consideration."
He smiled proudly as he gazed around him and wiped his streaming face. "Where is the shipman?" he asked. "Let him lead us against another ship." "Nay, sire, the shipman and all his men have sunk in the Lion," said Thomas de Mohun, a young knight of the West Country, who carried the standard. "We have lost our ship and the half of our following. I fear that we can fight no more."
The column thundered on, and as it passed I recognized Mohun, his flashing eye and burnished sabre gleaming from the dust-cloud. In five minutes they were in front of the enemy the men wheeled and faced the Federal line. "Charge!" rose from a hundred lips.
He roused himself impatiently, and began to think how slow they were going. Nevertheless, the green coteaux that swell between Rouen and the sea were flying past rapidly, and they arrived at Havre, as Mohun had said, just in time to catch the Southampton packet. There was threatening of foul weather to windward.
When he quarrelled with Lord Mohun he was indebted to his lordship in a sum of sixteen hundred pounds, for which Lord Mohun said he proposed to wait until my Lord Viscount should pay him. My lord had raised the sixteen hundred pounds and sent them to Lord Mohun that morning, and before quitting home had put his affairs into order, and was now quite ready to abide the issue of the quarrel.
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