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"Surely, mother, we've said too much, you'll overlook old scores." "'T is hard forgetting, when a perverse child puts the hand to her own hurt." "No hurt to me. You would not have had me take a man at his word when he recked not what he said." "Tsh! Tsh! Charles Seavern would have married you. And with the two brothers gone, he's an earl now, and you flung him off. Tsh!"

She's had the staple wrenched out of the wall now, 't was just below the big bower-window, you remember. And when Mary utterly refused Seavern, Seavern swore he'd wheel his ship round and raze the house to its foundations: he was drunk you see. And Mary laughed in his face.

Just for that summer, too, some ships of the royal fleet anchored there off Campobello, and the Honorable Charles Seavern, third son of an Earl, and professional at his cups, swung them at his will, and made holiday meanwhile among the gay and willing folk of all the little towns around. There was another yet, a youth growing up to fine estates away off beyond Halifax.

'T was the second summer Seavern's fleet was at the harbor's mouth there, and a ship of war lay anchored a mile downriver, many's the dance we had on it's deck! and Captain Seavern of late was in the house night and morn, for when he found Mary offish, he fairly lay siege to her, and my mother behind him, and there was Helmar sleeping out the nights in his dew-drenched boat at the garden's foot, or lying wakeful and rising and falling with the tide under her window, and my mother forever hearing the boat-chains clank and stir.

And my mother beset her, I think she went on her knees to her, she led her a dreadful life," said Margray, shivering; "and the end of it all was, that Mary promised to give up Helmar, would my mother drop the suit of Seavern.

Strathsay had cautiously planted and nursed the seed, a winning boy, a noble lad, a lordly man. If Margray had not married old Johnny Graeme, it would have broken Mrs. Strathsay's will; the will was strong; she did, she married him. If Mary, with her white moonsheen of beauty, did not bewitch the senses of Captain Seavern, it would break Mrs.