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"The lover that kept you on the cliff-breast Roland Tresham, he be the lover I mean." "Who told you I was with Roland?" "I know that you were not at Mr. Tresham's, for one called there to put you safely home." "I suppose Tris Penrose has been spying me and telling tales to father and you." "There be no need for Tris nor for anyone else to speak.
Here be a free welcome to her." "I promised, father." "'Tis a pity you did." "I must go, father." "You must stay at home. 'Twould be like putting my girl through the fire to Baal to send her into the company there be now at Mr. Tresham's." "I care nothing for the company. I want to see Miss Tresham." "Now, then, I am in earnest, Denas. You shall not go.
She was proud of her father, and proud of his boats, and proud of his skill in managing them. She said, whenever she spoke of him: "My father is an upright man. He is a fine sailor and a lucky fisher. Every one trusts my father. Every one honours him." Of course Denas recognised the differences in her friend's life and her own. Mr. Tresham's old stone mansion was large and lofty.
Yet she made an effort to treat the affair with unconcern. "What have I to do with the sovereign, sir?" she asked. "I am not responsible for Mr. Tresham's acts. I did my best to prevent the disgrace that has befallen the fisherman's daughter." "I think you are to blame in a great measure." "Sir!" "Yes. I am sure you are. You made a companion of the girl I may say a friend."
And Miss Tresham's open face, her frank assurances, her straightforward understanding of the position were a pledge John never doubted. Certainly Elizabeth meant all she promised. She was as desirous to prevent any love-making as John Penelles was. And when interest and conscience are in the same mind, people do at least try to keep their promises. Denas went gayly back with her to St. Penfer.
And the surgeon and the grand vizier were soon deep in talk, and Sturk brightened up, and looked eager and sagacious, and important, and became very voluble and impressive, and, leaving his lady to her own devices, with her maid and children, he got to the other side of the street, where Nutter, with taciturn and black observation, saw them busy pointing with cane and finger, and talking briskly as they surveyed together Dick Fisher's and Tom Tresham's tenements, and the Salmon House; and then beheld them ascend the steps of Tresham's door, and overlook the wall on the other side toward the river, and point this way and that along the near bank, as it seemed to Nutter discussing detailed schemes of alteration and improvement.
"What visit? You are going to Eastham? to the Tresham's?" It was a cry of incredulous pain. "How can I get out of it, dear Oliver? Evelyn has been so ill! and she's been depending on me and I owe her so much. You know how good she was to me in the Season." He lifted himself again on his cushions, surveying her ironically his eyes sunken and weak his aspect ghastly.
The supper party was one of those absolute and complete successes which rarely fall to the lot of even the most carefully thought out of social functions. Every one of Lady Tresham's guests had accepted the hurried invitation, every one seemed in good spirits, and delighted at the opportunity of unrestrained conversation after several hours at the theatre.
"I'm not asleep; I'm not dhramin'," said he, rubbing his eyes, and stamping slightly on the pavement, to assure himself that he was wide awake. "It is a quare business, whatever it is; an' it's not alone that, but everything about town looks strange to me. There's Tresham's house new painted, bedad, an' them flowers in the windies!
LORD MOUNTEAGLE, Tresham's brother-in-law, was certain to be in the house; and when Tresham found that he could not prevail upon the rest to devise any means of sparing their friends, he wrote a mysterious letter to this lord and left it at his lodging in the dusk, urging him to keep away from the opening of Parliament, 'since God and man had concurred to punish the wickedness of the times. It contained the words 'that the Parliament should receive a terrible blow, and yet should not see who hurt them. And it added, 'the danger is past, as soon as you have burnt the letter.
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