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There is not the slightest fear, I do assure you, miss. 'Do the men say that Plantagenet is a good sailor? inquired Venetia. 'Quite professional! said Mistress Pauncefort; 'and can command a ship as well as the best of them. They all say that. 'Hush! Pauncefort, I hear something. 'It's only my lady, miss. I know her step, 'Is my mother going to bed? said Venetia.
'Come, Pauncefort, rest yourself on this bench, said Lady Annabel, seating herself in the porch; 'and Venetia, my child, come hither to me. 'Mamma, said Venetia, 'what is the name of the gentleman to whom this abbey belongs? 'Lord Cadurcis, love. 'I should like to know why Lord Cadurcis lives abroad? said Venetia, musingly.
The house was immediately kindled into a flame by this information. The officers and Pauncefort, agent for the regiment, were examined: then it was unanimously resolved that such a practice was arbitrary, illegal, and a violation of the rights and liberties of the subject.
The astonished and agitated Lady Annabel assisted Mrs. Cadurcis to rise, and led her to a couch. Lord Cadurcis, pale and dogged, stood in a corner, and after all this uproar there was a comparative calm, only broken by the sobs of the mother, each instant growing fainter and fainter. At this moment the door opened, and Mistress Pauncefort ushered in the little Venetia.
'Your papa, to be sure, said Mistress Pauncefort, blushing up to her eyes, and looking very confused; 'that is to say, Miss Venetia, you are never to ask questions about such subjects. Have not I often told you it is not pretty? 'Why is it not pretty? said Venetia.
Perhaps Lady Annabel would have now given up the attempt, but the little Venetia expressed so much regret at the disappointment, that her mother directed the groom to reconnoitre in the neighbourhood, and see if it were possible to discover any person connected with the mansion. 'I doubt our luck, my lady, said Mistress Pauncefort, 'for they do say that the abbey is quite uninhabited.
Until they were announced as ready, Lady Annabel walked up and down the room with an impatient step, but was as completely silent as the miserable Venetia, who remained weeping on the sofa. The confusion and curiosity of Mistress Pauncefort were extraordinary.
Dwelling on every instant, the time dragged heavily along, and she thought that the night had half passed when Pauncefort entered her room, and she learnt, to her surprise, that only an hour had elapsed since she had parted from her mother. This entrance of Pauncefort had given Venetia a momentary hope that they had returned.
Here they presented the letter they had obtained to Captain Charles Pauncefort Gregory, who, as may be supposed, received it with manifest astonishment. "Well," said he, "of all the stories I have heard since I have been in the East, this is the most extraordinary. I thought that other chap was about as unfortunate a beggar as could well be, but you beat him hollow at every turn.
'Show me to the room, my friend. Lady Annabel accordingly, with a hurried step, following her guide, quitted the chamber. Pauncefort remained fixed to the earth, the very picture of perplexity. 'Well, to be sure! she exclaimed, 'was anything ever so strange! In the arms of Signor Forestiere! Forestiere. An English name. There is no person of the name of Forest that I know. And in his arms, too!
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