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Colonel Umfraville came and sat down by his sister on the sofa, and said, "Well Jane, how have you been?" "Oh! much as usual:" and then there was a silence, till she moved a little nearer to him, put her hand on his arm, looked up in his face with swimming eyes, and said, "O Giles! Giles!" He took her hand, and bent over her, saying, in the same grave steady voice, "Do not grieve for us, Jane.
It was a hard task, for the local chiefs were supported by Sir Ingram de Umfraville and Sir John de St. John; these knights, with 1200 followers, met the Scots on the banks of the Cree, which separates the countries of Kirkcudbright and Wigton, and although greatly superior in numbers, were completely defeated by the Scottish pikemen, and compelled to take refuge in the castle of Butele.
I, too, was safe as long as I kept out of England. As matters stand, Lord Umfraville intends to press a charge of theft against me. And I am in disgrace with Bute, who is quite content to beat offenders with a crooked stick. This confluence of two-penny accidents is annoying." "It is worse than you know," my lord of Ufford returned. He opened the door which led to the Venetian Chamber.
If our childish faults such as impetuosity and sullenness are not corrected on principle, not for convenience, while we are children." After this conversation, everyone will be sure that Mrs. Umfraville came next day, and after many arrangements with Lady Barbara, carried off the little Countess with her to the house that Lord de la Poer had lent them. Kate was subdued and quiet.
Umfraville came out of her room with that greeting which Kate liked so much, helped her to take off her cloak and smooth her hair, and then set her down to breakfast. It was a silent meal to Kate.
A surge of music, of laughter, and of many lights invaded the room wherein they stood. "D'ye see those persons, just past Umfraville, so inadequately disguised as gentlemen? They are from Bow Street. Lord Umfraville intends to apprehend you here to-night." "He has an eye for the picturesque," drawled Calverley. "My tragedy, to do him justice, could not be staged more strikingly.
Another Umfraville, Richard, quarrelled with his neighbour of Nafferton, on the opposite side of the river, for having begun to erect a fortress much too near Umfraville's own. He sent a petition to the King on the subject and King John commanded Philip de Ulecote's building operations to cease.
"They are giving a party next door," said Lady Barbara. But the bell rang. "Only a parcel coming home," said Lady Barbara. "Pray do not be nervous, Jane." But the red colour was higher in Barbara's own cheeks, as there were steps on the stairs; and in quite a triumphant voice the butler announced, as he opened the door, "Colonel and Mrs. Umfraville!" Kate stood up, and backed.
At that moment Abbot Maurice, of Inchaffray, who had just been celebrating mass, came barefooted before the array, holding up a crucifix, and raising his hand in blessing, as all the army bent to the earth, with the prayers of men willingly offering themselves. "They kneel! they kneel!" cried Edward. "They are asking mercy." "They are, my liege," said Umfraville, "but it is of God, not of us.
"Yes," faintly said Kate; and with another flush of colour, thought of having been told, that if Lady de la Poer knew what she had done, she would never be allowed to play with them again, and therefore that she never durst attempt it. "They were very nice children," said Mrs. Umfraville. "Remarkably nice children," returned Lady Barbara, in a tone that again cut Kate to the heart.
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