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But his battle fought, and his mind resolved, Myles was too much master of himself to need a second conflict, and setting his lips firmly beneath the tawny moustache that shaded them, he strode down the hill, and at his own door found John Alden waiting for him and changing greetings with a party of four men armed with sickles and attended by two dogs.
"Where goest thou, Falworth?" called Blunt from the other end of the room, where he was lacing his doublet. Just now Myles had no heart in the swimming or sport of any sort, but he answered, shortly, "I go to the river to swim." "Nay," said Blunt, "thou goest not forth from the castle to-day. Hast thou forgot how thou didst answer me back about fetching the water this morning?
Myles could not understand; she considered Helen fit to be a queen, and said so. For more than two months, Rose and Edward did not meet again; for more than four after that, he never entered the cottage which had contained what he held most dear on earth; but one evening he called with Mr. Stokes.
At last there suddenly came the noise of acclamation of those who stood without the door cheering and the clapping of hands sounds heralding the immediate advent of Myles and his attendants. The next moment the little party entered the hall. First of all, Gascoyne, bearing Myles's sword in both hands, the hilt resting against his breast, the point elevated at an angle of forty-five degrees.
Feemy could not but think that a week since he would not have asked her to carry all her travelling wardrobe in a bundle, in her hand. However, she only said, "Why, not well, Myles; I shall have so many things to think of; but I shan't have much, and if you'll let me, I'll send Biddy to meet you with what I must take. She'll meet you on the road, and put it into the gig."
Now, however, Myles was in so good a temper, and seemed so kind to her, that that, and her little prospect of pleasure, did make her happy. She was sitting in this humour on the old sofa close to him, leaning on his arm, which was round her waist, when she heard her brother's footstep at the hall door. "Here's Thady, Myles; sit off a bit."
BY MYLES B. FOSTER, Organist of the Foundling Hospital.
"Barbara, hath Master Allerton asked thee to be his wife?" inquired Myles, as he and his cousin sat together upon the bench in front of his own house some few evenings after the weddings. "He spoke to the governor, and he to me," replied Barbara, a little spark of mirth glinting in her blue eyes. "And thou saidst?"
Myles Ussher had never yet been hit in a duel, and would therefore have no hesitation in fighting one; he had never yet been seriously injured in riding, and would therefore ride any horse boldly; he had never had his head broken in a row, and therefore would readily go into one; he cared little for bodily pain if it did not incapacitate him, little at least for any pain he had as yet endured, and his imagination was not strong enough to suggest any worse evil.
But the Earl of Mackworth only sat stroking his beard impassively, as was his custom. Myles would have given much to know his thoughts. In all these years Sir James Lee almost never gave any expression either of approbation or disapproval excepting when Myles exhibited some carelessness or oversight. Then his words were sharp and harsh enough.
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