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The Scots, as I have said, having taken Durham, Tynemouth Castle, and Sunderland, and being joined by Sir Thomas Fairfax, who had taken Selby, resolve, with their united strength, to besiege York; but when they came to view the city, and saw a plan of the works, and had intelligence of the strength of the garrison, they sent expresses to Manchester and Cromwell for help, who came on, and joined them with 9000, making together about 30,000 men, rather more than less.
How high the breakers were that rolled into that haven as I stood, a wondering child, and watched them from the shore! I have tossed on many seas since then, and have stood on many a storm-swept headland; but nowhere have I seen waves so high so irresistible in their majesty, as those waves at Tynemouth seemed to my innocent eyes to be.
Jasmine took a step forward with a smothered cry, but Alice Tynemouth laid a hand on her arm. "He'll bring Rudyard back, if it can be done," she whispered. Stafford did not turn round. He said something in an undertone to Tynemouth, and then, without a glance behind, strode away beside Brengyn and Jim Gawley to the pit's mouth. Adrian Fellowes stepped up to Tynemouth.
Jasmine rose and embraced her friend, and Lady Tynemouth subsided into a chair with a sigh. "My dear Jasmine, you look so frail," she said. "A short time ago I feared you were going to blossom into too ripe fruit, now you look almost a little pinched. But it quite becomes you, mignonne quite. You have dark lines under your eyes, and that transparency of skin it is quite too fetching.
In the obvious appeal to the comparative courage of class his own class had suffered. "Or go and talk to the women," he added to Fellowes. "Make 'em comfortable. You've got a gift that way." Turning on his heel, Lord Tynemouth hastened to the mouth of the pit and watched the preparations for the descent. Never was night so still; never was a sky so deeply blue, nor stars so bright and serene.
Now he turned to Stafford and Tynemouth and the others. "You'll come wi' me," he said to Stafford "if you want. It's a bad look-out, but we'll have a try. You'll do what I say?" he sharply asked Stafford, whose face was set. "You know the place," Stafford answered. "I'll do what you say." "My word goes?" "Right. Your word goes. Let's get on."
Lady Tynemouth threw up her hands. "Jasmine, I'm in despair. I had set my heart upon it. I thought I could do it easily, and I haven't done it, after trying as hard as can be. Everything has gone wrong, and now Tynie cables I mustn't go to South Africa. Fancy a husband forbidding a wife to come to him." "Well, perhaps it's better than a husband forbidding his wife to leave him."
"Who is the lady?" he asked, while in his mind was a sensible stir of recognition. "Ah, there's something like the real thing!" his companion replied. "She is doing a capital bit of work. She and Lady Tynemouth have got a hospital-ship down at Durban. She's come to link it up better with the camp. It's Rudyard Byng's wife. They're both at it out here." "Who comes there!"
That was like her, too; she could always make other people generous. He is a beautiful Satan, and I rechristened him Zambesi. I wanted the red parasol, too, but Alice Tynemouth wouldn't give it to me." "So she gave it to the man who pulled her back. Why not?" "How do you know she did that?" "Well, it hangs in an honoured place in Stafford's chambers. I conjecture right, do I?"
First a Shetland pony, and now at last I've reached Zambesi such a wicked dear." "Zambesi why Zambesi? One would think you were South African." She enjoyed his mystification. Then she grew serious and her eyes softened. "I had a friend a girl, older than I. She married. Well, he's an earl now, the Earl of Tynemouth, but he was the elder son then, and wild for sport.
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