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As she prepared his bath for him, the wayward thought came to her that if only he and she had lived alone together, she would never have wanted to get married at all even for the delight of being Lady Studley instead of "poor little Dinah Bathurst!" It was certainly not love at first sight that prompted Mrs. Bathurst to take a fancy to Isabel Everard.
Ransom's first thought was for the family of his faithful friend. But it was too late. With the exception of one tiny girl all had been killed by the rioters. This forlorn little orphan was already on her way crossing the Pacific, for she was to be housed and educated at Old Studley with Mr. Ransom's own little daughter, and at his expense. Common gratitude could do no less.
Studley is taking his sister and she asked me to go too. May I?" "You accepted, I suppose?" demanded the Colonel. "I said I thought I might," Dinah admitted. And then very suddenly she caught a kindly gleam in his eyes, and summoned courage for entreaty. "Do please please let me go!" she begged, clasping his arm. "I shan't ever have any fun again when this is over."
George Bates and a skinner's apprentice named Studley were caught in the act of tripping up a portly old Flanderkin and forthwith sent to Newgate, and there were other arrests, which did but inflame the smouldering rage of the mob.
"To save Teddy's face, in the first instance. I shall drive straight up to Lord's, in your brougham if I may. I know Studley rather well; he shall keep Teddy's place open till the last possible moment." "But how shall you account for his absence?" I asked. "I shall account for it all right," said Raffles darkly. "I can save his face for the time being, at all events at Lord's."
She would leave a fortnight after, possibly less, a totally different being a married woman, Lady Studley, part and parcel of Sir Eustace's train, his most intimate belonging, most exclusively his own. She trembled afresh as this thought came home to her. Despite his assurances, marriage seemed to her a terrible thing. It was like parting, not only with the old life, but with herself.
In such times men of strong character take the lead. When the cape merchant Thomas Studley, whose duty it was to care for the supplies and dispense them, died, his important office was conferred on Smith. At length, during the fall of 1607, the Indians stopped hostilities, and for a brief interval health and plenty prevailed.
"I made a most horrific blunder, didn't I, Mr. Studley? I called him a bounder!" Dinah looked at him witheringly. "You would!" she said. "Well, I hope you apologized." Billy stuck out his tongue at her. "I didn't then!" he returned, and skated elegantly away on one leg. "Billy," remarked Dinah dispassionately, "is not really such a horrid little beast as he seems."
Perhaps if the tumult had only been of the apprentices, provoked by Alderman Mundy's interference, they would soon have dispersed, but the throng was pervaded by men with much deeper design, and a cry arose no one knew from whence that they would break into Newgate and set free Studley and Bates.
I scarcely regretted having done so, as the flash in the baronet's troubled eyes, and the extreme agitation of his face, showed me plainly that Lady Studley was right when she spoke of his nerves being in a very irritable condition. Of course, I did not believe in ghosts, and wondered that a man of Sir Henry's calibre could be at all under the influence of this old-world fear.
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