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Updated: September 4, 2025
Captain Vallancey, writing in a Madras journal in those old times, makes this remark: "The day that sees this far-spread evil eradicated from India and known only in name, will greatly tend to immortalize British rule in the East."
Captain Vallancey, writing in a Madras journal in those old times, makes this remark: "The day that sees this far-spread evil eradicated from India and known only in name, will greatly tend to immortalize British rule in the East."
They went without a word to Richard who was still closeted with Vallancey, and riding forth they crossed the river and took the road that, skirting Sedgemoor, runs south to Weston Zoyland. They rode with little said until they came to the point where the road branches on the left, throwing out an arm across the moor towards Chedzoy, a mile or so short of Zoyland Chase.
The highest price of a silver one for a king, according to Vallancey, was thirty heifers, when made of refined silver; the lowest value attached to them being three heifers. I have seen a very large specimen, of the intrinsic value of three pounds. The pin is 9-1/2 inches long, and the circular brooch 5 inches in diameter. Larger specimens have been found and mistaken for poniards.
It was in consequence of this that the meeting with Richard Westmacott was not to take place until the evening, and therefore Vallancey came not to Lupton House as early as Richard thought he should expect him.
Shalt ha' the guineas when we're back and not before." "Hum!" quoth Blake, to whom eight guineas were a consideration in these bankrupt days. "And if you don't come back at all upon whom am I to draw?" The suggestion sank through Dick's half-fuddled senses, and the scare it gave him was reflected on his face. "Damn you, Blake!" swore Vallancey between his teeth.
He felt the quiver of the other's limb. "Stab me!" quoth he, "you are in no case to fight. What the plague ails you?" "I am none so well this morning," answered Richard feebly. "Lord Gervase's claret," he added, passing a hand across his brow. "Lord Gervase's claret?" echoed Vallancey in horror, as at some outrageous blasphemy. "Frontignac at ten shillings the bottle!" he exclaimed.
Vallancey is asking for you, sir," he announced. Richard started. Vallancey! He had come at last, and his coming was connected with the impending duel. The thought was paralyzing to young Westmacott. The flush of anger faded from his face; its leaden hue returned and he shivered as with cold. At last he mastered himself sufficiently to ask: "Where is he, Jasper?"
Wilding was observed for once to change colour. He gripped Vallancey by the wrist. "You saw them?" he demanded, and his voice had a husky, unusual sound. "You saw them?" "With these two eyes," answered Vallancey, "and I spoke with them." It was true, then! There was no room for further doubt. Wilding looked at Trenchard, who shrugged his shoulders and made a wry face.
Westmacott's party, if this would be a convenience to them. Vallancey thanked him and accepted the offer, and thus the groom instructed by Trenchard led the five horses some distance from the spot.
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