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She crept down to him at about nine, and having commenced her story by saying that she had a matter of most vital importance on which to speak to him, she told him in fact all that she had heard from Lady Mary. "She is a mischief-making gossiping old maid," said Neville angrily. "Will you tell me that there is no truth in what she writes?" asked Lady Scroope.
But these were rare events: on ordinary days the cows dozed undisturbed in the sleepy, foggy air, and the men lounged on the trough by the pump, and smoked from morning until bed-time, and cracked jokes on each other, and told marvellous stories of the war and its ravages. "It giv' Sevier a staggerin' blow, gentlemen," old Judge Scroope would say: "we'll never recover from it.
"An ivory child that seemed to come to life and to give you a necklace. Whoever heard such nonsense?" "Whoever heard such nonsense?" repeated Miss Holmes after him, as though in polite acquiescence, but speaking as an automaton might speak. "I say," interrupted Scroope, addressing Miss Manners, "this is a drawing-room entertainment and a half, isn't it, dear?"
"Because he is so much the cleverest. I could never have got into the Engineers." "That seems to be a reason why he should be the youngest," said Lady Scroope. Two or three other people arrived, and the house became much less dull than was its wont. Jack Neville occasionally rode his brother's horses, and the Earl was forced to acknowledge another mistake.
You know that to me my Kate, our Kate, is all excellence, as pure and good as she is bright and beautiful. As God is above us she shall be my wife, but I cannot take her to Scroope Manor as my wife while my uncle lives." "Why should any one be ashamed of her at Scroope Manor?" "Because they are fools. But I cannot cure them of their folly. My uncle thinks that I should marry one of my own class."
There lay poor Scroope turning and muttering in the little tent, and there I sat by his side, wondering whether he would live to see another dawn, or if he did, for how long I should be able to tend him. I called to a Kaffir to bring me my coffee, and just was I was lifting the pannikin to my lips with a shaking hand, help came. It arrived in a very strange shape.
Still it travelled through the air, but with the momentum of a stone to fall fifty yards to my right, dead. "That's better!" said Scroope, while Charles grinned all over his round face, muttering: "Wiped his eye that time."
And why not? In the days which must come so soon, he would be his own master. Who could impede his motions or gainsay his will? Then he remembered his Kate's mother, and the glances which would come from the mother's eyes. There might be difficulty even though Scroope were all his own.
Let me have him in Wilfrey Lawson's hands, and ye'll see what for I hate the proud-stomached taistrel." "Well," said the Cumbrian, in a tone indicative of more resignation than he had previously exhibited, "I've no more cause to love 'im than yourself. You saw 'im knock me down in the streets of Lancaster." "May ye hang him up for it, Bailiff Scroope," replied the Scot.
Such a marriage as that of which Lady Mary spoke would not only injure the house of Scroope for the present generation, but would tend to its final downfall. Would it not be known throughout all England that the next Earl of Scroope would be the grandson of a convict? Might there not be questions as to the legitimacy of the assumed heir?
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