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"I am mistaken in my friend's character, if he leave his betrothed in any doubt, on this subject. Five minutes of perfect frankness now, might obviate years of distrust, hereafter." And would you Mr. Powis, avow a former weakness of this sort, to the woman you had finally selected for your wife?"
"Less than they are to-day, Miss Effingham," said Paul Powis; "for though poetry requires you all smile, is it forbidden to touch on such subjects?" "Not at all, so it be done in wholesome rhymes," returned the baronet. "You ought to know that you are expected even to speak in doggerel." Paul ceased, and the whole party walked away from the place, laughing and light-hearted.
The countess herself received Sir Walter Manny on his landing, and the townspeople vied with each other in offering hospitality to the men-at-arms and archers. "Ah! Sir John Powis," Sir Walter exclaimed, "what, are you here? I had given you up for lost. We thought you had gone down in the gale the night you started."
"Here are two young friends who shared the hazards of our late passage with us, and to whom, in a great degree, we owe our present happy security, and I am anxious to make you acquainted with them. This is our countryman, Mr. Powis, and this is an English friend, who, I am certain, will be happy to know so warm an admirer of his own country Sir George Templemore." Mr.
"You are in the humour to be severe this morning the bird is but a common swallow." "One of which will not make a summer, as every one knows. Our cosmopolitism is already forgotten, and with it, I fear, our frankness." "Since Powis has hoisted his national colours, I do not feel as free on such subjects as formerly," returned Sir George, smiling.
"We're makin' straight for the old Powis settlement," was answered. "Nothin' but niggers have lived there since the war, an' that nigger's there, I'll bet." "That's so," the sheriff said. "About how many niggers live there now?" "There ain't more than half a dozen cabins left now. We can easy manage that many."
Ought I, for instance, ever to quit my beloved father?" "What necessity would there be for that, ma'am? Mr. Powis has no home of his own; and, for that matter, scarcely any country " "How can you know this, Nanny?" demanded Eve, with the jealous sensitiveness of a young love. "Why, Miss Eve, his man says this much, and he has lived with him long enough to know it, if he had a home.
To finish the sad story of Sir John Oldcastle at once, I may mention that he escaped into Wales, and remained there safely, for four years. When discovered by Lord Powis, it is very doubtful if he would have been taken alive so great was the old soldier's bravery if a miserable old woman had not come behind him and broken his legs with a stool.
Walter continued to act as the countess's especial squire. She had informed Sir William Caddoudal and Sir John Powis that it was at his suggestion that she had made the sudden attack upon the French camp, and he had gained great credit thereby. The effect of the new machines was speedily visible.
Powis is a fortune-hunter, but there are circumstances connected with his history, that you ought at least to know, and that immediately. I have chosen to speak to you, rather than to speak to your father, because I thought you might like a female confidant on such occasion, in preference even to your excellent natural protector. The idea of. Mrs.
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