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But Selwyn laughingly declined, and after a little while he went away, first to look up a book which he was having bound for Eileen, then to call on his sister who, with Eileen, had just returned from a week at Silverside with the children, preliminary to moving the entire establishment there for the coming summer; for the horses and dogs had already gone; also Kit-Ki, a pessimistic parrot, and the children's two Norwegian ponies.
"Once I trembled indeed, for the starlight on the swamp was suddenly splintered into millions of flashes; and my heart leaped in pure fright! . . . It was only a wild duck whirring headlong into the woodland waters but oh, if you had been there to see the weird beauty of its coming and the star-splashed blackness! You must see that with me, some time. . . . When are you coming to Silverside?
A few moments later, Selwyn and Gerald in their oilskins were dashing eastward along the coast in the swiftest motor-boat south of the Narrows. The boy seemed deathly tired as they crossed the dim lawn at Silverside.
The three men were condemned to death: and then Agnes Silverside was brought to the bar. She was some time under examination, for she answered all the questions asked her so wisely and so firmly, that the Commissioners themselves were disconcerted. They took refuge, as such men usually did, in abuse, calling her ugly names, and asking "if she wished to burn her rotten old bones?"
"But I know you had rather remain at Silverside, so I won't turn around and surprise you here in Manhattan town. "And now your next question: Yes, Boots is well, and I will give him Drina's love, and I will try my best to bring him to Silverside when I come. Boots is still crazed with admiration for his house.
Then the children charged upstairs, fresh from the Park, clamouring for food; and they fell upon Selwyn's neck, and disarranged his scarf-pin, and begged for buttered toast and crumpets, and got what they demanded before Nina's authority could prevent. "I saw a rabbit at Silverside!" said Billy, "but do you know, Uncle Philip, that hunting pack of ours is no good!
She was Mrs Silverside, the widow of a priest. By her was Mrs Ewring the miller's wife, who was a little deaf, and wanted to get near the preacher. When the room was full, Mr Pulleyne, who was to preach that evening, rose and came forward to the table, and gave out the Forty-Second Psalm. They had no hymn-books, as we have.
"Will ye be of as good courage, think you," asked Wastborowe, "the day ye stand up by Colne Water?" "God knoweth," was the reverent answer of Mrs Silverside. "If He holds us up, then shall we stand." "They be safe kept whom He keepeth," said Johnson. "Please, Mr Wastborowe," said Cissy in a businesslike manner, "would you mind telling me when we shall be burned?"
So their relations remained during the early summer; and everybody supposed that Gerald's two weeks' vacation would be spent there at Silverside. Apparently the boy himself thought so, too, for he made some plans ahead, and Austin sent down a very handsome new motor-boat for him. Then, at the last minute, a telegram arrived, saying that he had sailed for Newport on Neergard's big yacht!
"Let's go down to the library," said Eileen to Selwyn "you are dining with us, of course. . . . What? Yes, indeed, you are. The idea of your attempting to escape to some dreadful club and talk man-talk all the evening when I have not begun to tell you what I did at Silverside!" They left the nursery together and descended the stairs to the library.
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