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She walked hurriedly, with compressed lips, but quivering limbs, down stairs, and into the sitting-room. Scoutbush was gone to bed. Campbell and Mellot sat chatting still. "Where is my brother?" "Gone to bed, as some one else ought to be; for it is past twelve. Is Vavasour come in yet?" "No." "Very odd," said Claude; "I never saw him after I left you."
Never mind, lords do not visit Penalva every day. Out burst the bells above with merry peal; Lord Scoutbush and the Waterwitch are duly "rung in" to the home of his lordship's ancestors; and he is received, as he scrambles up the pier steps from his boat, by the curate, the churchwardens, the Lieutenant, and old Tardrew, backed by half-a-dozen ancient sons of Anak, lineal descendants of the free fishermen to whom six hundred years before, St.
Away go the hounds at score through tangled cover, their merry peal ringing from brake and brier, clashing against the rocks, moaning musically away through distant glens aloft. Scoutbush and Tardrew "take down" the riverbed, followed by Campbell.
"So we all say, in every battle, Scoutbush. Who ever sees the man who sent the bullet through him? And yet we fight on. Do you not think the greatest terror, the only real terror, in any battle, is the chance shot? which come from no one knows where, and hit no man can guess whom?
Major Campbell had talked to her often about her duties to this person and to that, of this same necessity of being useful; but she had escaped from the thought, as we have seen her, in laughing at poor little Scoutbush on the very same score. But why had not Major Campbell's sermons touched her heart as this one had? Who can tell?
"No thanks that is I have no doubt you teach them all that's right, and we are exceedingly gratified with the way in which you conduct the school. I say Val," cried Scoutbush, who could support the part of patron no longer, "what pretty little ducks they are, I wish I had a dozen of them! Come you here!" and down he sat on a bench, and gathered a group round him. "Now, are you all good children?
"Moral influence?" in a tone which implied naively enough, "I'd better get a little morals myself before I talk of using the same." "Your position in the parish " "My good sir!" quoth Scoutbush in his shrewd way; "do you not know yourself what these fine fellows who were ready yesterday to kiss the dust off my feet would say, if I asked leave to touch a single hair of their rights?
And you know it may not be often that we shall be together again thus; and oh, Scoutbush! brother! if anything was to happen to you I only say if in this horrid war, you would not like to think that you had refused the last thing your little Val asked for, and that she was miserable and lonely at home." "I'll be shot if you shall!" was all the poor Viscount could get out.
"Guide?" said Scoutbush bitterly, with one of those little sparks of practical shrewdness which sometimes fell from him. "Aye, I see how it is! These intriguing rascals of parsons they begin as father confessors, like so many popish priests; and one fine morning they blossom out into lovers, and so they get all the pretty women, and all the good fortunes, the sneaking, ambitious, low-bred "
Vavasour was perfectly right as to fact, and her arguments full of sound reason; whereon Valencia said that "of course if Lucia thought it, Major Campbell would prove it; and there was no arguing with such Solons as he " Which Elsley heard, and ground his teeth. Whereon little Scoutbush cried joyfully, "I have it; why not go by sea? Take the yacht, and go! Where? Of course I have it again.
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