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Updated: May 23, 2025
'Here comes master Hey wood, anyhow, said the old woman, as Richard, leaving Lady at the gate, came striding up the walk in his great brown boots; 'and I pray you, sir Rowland, to let by-gones be by-gones, for my sake if not for your own, lest thou bring the vengeance of general Fairfax upon my poor house. 'Fairfax! cried Scudamore; 'is that villain come hither?
To our right there were other farm buildings where the Colonel and Adjutant were stationed, and in the early morning I was sent there with a message from Captain Scudamore, to see why our ammunition had not come up. However, they gave me a cheerful message for Captain Scudamore. It was very soon after that that Colonel Hart McHarg was killed.
They were obliged even to gag him before the doctor could bandage his wounds, and stanch the blood. "How bad the old gentleman's teeth are," said Scudamore, with a malicious twinkle in his eyes. "We shall probably have to pull out some of them." Moody could make no reply to this hideous threat except a roar like a wild beast's, and could not even bite the hand which the doctor passed over him.
All the efforts of his imagination, as he rode home, to bring his judgment to the same side with itself, had failed, and he had been driven to confess the project a foolhardy one. But, on the other hand, had he not had a leading thitherward? Whence else the sudden conviction that Scudamore had taken her, and the burning desire to seek her in Raglan stables?
"Too late I regretted the desire for knowledge, which had led me into this predicament, for I durst not rush off from my very sad position, for my breath would soon fail me, and my lower limbs are thick from the exercise of hospitality. How I longed for the wings of a dove, or at any rate for the legs of Lieutenant Blyth Scudamore!
When I call you COUSIN DOROTHY, you reply with MR. SCUDAMORE. 'The relation is hardly near enough to justify a less measure of observance. 'Our mothers loved each other. 'They found each other worthy. 'And you do not find me such? sighed Scudamore, with a smile meant to be both humble and bewitching. 'N-n-o. Thou hast not made me desire to hold with thee much converse.
Here in the first place he regaled his guest with the flank of a kid served with cucumber, and fruit gathered early, and some native wine, scarcely good enough for the Venusian bard, but as rich as ambrosia to Scudamore. Then he supplied him with the finest tobacco that ever ascended in spiral incense to the cloud-compelling Jove.
Tell me not, Rowland, that the damsel hath no design in it. Her looks betoken a better wisdom. Doth she not, I ask your honesty, far more resemble a nose-pinched puritan than a loyal maiden? Thus amongst the apple-blossoms talked Amanda Serafina. 'Prithee, be not too severe with my cousin, Amanda, pleaded Scudamore.
'Think'st thou, she went on, 'that my lord would easily pardon such things? 'Thou knewest it, and didst not betray me! Oh Dorothy! murmured Scudamore. 'Thou art a very angel of light, Dorothy. He seized her hand, and but for the possible eyes upon them, he would have flung himself at her feet.
When his visitors left him, he sighed sorely and said to himself, 'Honour without desert! But for the roundhead's taunts, I might have run to Rupert and saved the day. The next morning the marquis went again to see him. 'How fares sir Rowland? he said. 'My lord, returned Scudamore, in beseeching tone, 'break not my heart with honour unmerited. 'How!
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