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I'll fetch her back!" and I ran out to get at my own horse. I had a perfectly unnecessary notion that everything must be done decently and in order, and that Saumarez's first care was to wipe the happy look out of Maud Copleigh's face. All the time I was linking up the curb-chain I wondered how he would do it.
Not only was the French vessel's superiority in force more marked in the latter instance, but Saumarez's ship there met with an accident similar in character to that which befell the Cléopâtre, from the consequences of which she was extricated by his masterly seamanship.
It proved, in fact, the keen military sense of the demands of an occasion which constitutes the born corps or division commander. This was Saumarez's third general action, at a time when Nelson, although three years a post-captain, had commanded only frigates, and had never seen a battle between fleets.
"Sir James Saumarez's action has put us upon velvet," wrote St. Vincent, then head of the Admiralty; and in the House of Peers he highly eulogized the admiral's conduct, as also did Nelson.
He had to avoid quarrels, and yet at the same time to restrain Sweden from acts of injury to which she was constantly impelled by the Emperor, whose purpose naturally was exactly the opposite of his; and who sought further to estrange all people from Great Britain. In the performance of this task Saumarez's success was not only complete, but peculiarly his own.
Everybody looked wonderingly at him; he was a comparative stranger in the town, and the unimaginative folk amongst the spectators were already cudgelling their brains for an explanation of his presence. But Brent, after a glance at Carstairs, transferred his attention to Carstairs's principal, at whom he had already looked once or twice during Mrs. Saumarez's brief occupancy of the witness-box.
Maybe, then, Mrs. Saumarez had been behind the Reform party in Hathelsborough? there was a woman wire-puller at the back of these matters as a rule, he believed that sort of thing, perhaps, was Mrs. Saumarez's little hobby. He turned from these speculations to find her at his elbow. "Thank you for coming, Mr. Brent," she said softly.
Saumarez's answer came with unexpected swiftness. "Oh, yes! two or three times!" "Had you refused him also, then?" Mrs Saumarez paused. Her cheeks flushed a deeper red. "The fact was I didn't want to marry anybody just then anyway," she answered. "They both asked me several times. I if you please, will you not ask me any more about my private affairs? they've nothing to do with this!
Meeking'll get nothing out of him!" The barrister was again addressing himself to Wellesley, who, after one glance at Mrs. Saumarez as she fainted, had continued, erect and defiant, facing the Court. "You heard Mrs. Saumarez's evidence just now, Dr. Wellesley?" asked Meeking quietly. "I did!" "Was it correct?" "I am not going to discuss it!" "Nor answer any questions arising out of it?"
Saumarez," he began, "we want to ask you a few questions questions your replies to which may perhaps give us a little light on this very sad matter. I believe I am right in thinking that you and the late Mr. Wallingford were personal friends?" Mrs. Saumarez's answer came in low tones and in one word: "Yes." "Very close friends, I believe?" "Yes." "He used to visit at your house a great deal?"
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