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I advise you, Laurence, to leave that wasp's nest alone. You do not understand this people. I do!" Now Colonel Laurence, though he got the worst of his colloquy with Captain Louis Raincy, had a real grievance. It was true that throughout the province, and especially in its westerly parts, the Government hardly received the semblance of support.
And yet he is a wise enough lad, and has come to no great harm nay, I know him to be both brave and chivalrous " "He is a De Raincy," said his grandfather, rather haughtily. "And as such should have a career," Julian continued without heeding the expression on my Lord's face.
And he would have fallen on the rock spit, if Stair had not caught him in his arms, and carried him to the little cove. "You were here on this spot with your command, Captain de Raincy," trumpeted Colonel Laurence, "and yet you let the prison-breakers ride off! You ought to have attacked them, sir. You know you ought! It is as much as your coat is worth.
Patsy went down immediately, and in the Gold Parlour she found the Lady Lucy Raincy Lady Lucy in tears, Lady Lucy in a pleasant fluffy desolation of woe. She flung her arms about the girl's neck and wept freely on her shoulder. "Oh, help me," she sobbed, "you will help me, I know. I have not always seemed a good friend to you, but I have always really loved you.
But word was always sent before, so that everything dutiable might be removed in the night. All this stir in his own business did Stair a great deal of good. It kept him from grieving about Patsy. Besides, the constant adventure of the night and the lying up in the Cave of Slains during the day, enabled him to sleep off his weariness and kept him away from the neighbourhood of Castle Raincy.
"I see," said Earl Raincy, "between the two of you, you could have accounted for an army of Duke's favourites!" "Perhaps," said Julian Wemyss, "but to get back to what we were saying, the question is what are we to do with Patsy? I do not mean to spend my whole life in exile, and though we simply could not let Wargrove pass, we cannot go on fighting duels for the sake of this young woman.
As for the lad, God send him something that will harden him, so that when his grandfather dies, another De Raincy of the right breed may rule in his stead. At present he is overly much after the pattern of his mother!" "Well," said Patsy, with her hands rolled in the fluffy ends of her muslin scarf, "don't blame me, Miss Aline. I do my best to toughen him, and then he goes and cries to you!"
Here Stair made an indefinite noise in his throat, which, if he could have spoken, would have been an eloquent statement-at-large of the state of his affections. He cursed himself for his imbecility. Louis Raincy, he felt sure, would have found the right thing to say even the Poor Scholar not to say any of the fine gentlemen whom Patsy had left behind in London. After all she had left them.
He knew him in a moment, for of course the heir of Raincy knew everybody within thirty miles. "Only Frank Airie, the Poor Scholar!" he said to himself, his jealousy melting like a summer cloud, "of course what a fool I was. He's on his way home from teaching the Auchenmore brats. Though it is a miracle that he should happen to cross the glen at the same point exactly.
His eyes were on Patsy Ferris riding by the side of Stair Garland, talking to him as one who had won a great prize, or has found her heart's desire. So the captain of dragoons gave no order, for at the sight his heart was turned to stone within him. His name was Louis Raincy, and he had quite forgotten pretty Mrs. Arlington. The deed being done, the doers soon dispersed.
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