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It was the price I had to pay for Richard's life and honour." She swallowed hard, and let her hands fall limply to her sides. "Where is Richard?" she inquired. It was her aunt who answered her. "He went forth half an hour agone with Mr. Vallancey and Sir Rowland." "Sir Rowland had returned, then?" She looked up quickly. "Yes," answered Diana.

See to him, Vallancey; he is brainsick with the fumes of war." The fellow protested, but Trenchard's way was brisk and short; and so, protesting still, he led away their cattle in the end, Vallancey going with him to see that he performed this last duty as a stable-boy ere he too became a champion militant of the Protestant Cause.

"Odso!" was the impatient retort, "there's other news travelling to Whitehall that will make small-beer of this and belike it's well on its way there already." "What news is that?" asked Trenchard. Vallancey told them. "The Duke has landed he came ashore this morning at Lyme." "The Duke?" quoth Mr. Wilding, whilst Trenchard merely stared. "What Duke?" "What Duke! Lord, you weary me!

Instead of expressing relief at the discovery that this was not an enemy, he swore at the trouble to which they had so needlessly put themselves, and he was still at his vituperations when Vallancey came up with them, red in the face and very angry, cursing them roundly for the folly of their mad career, and for not having stopped when he bade them. "It was no doubt discourteous," said Mr.

"You shall be enlightened if you will do as I request," Wilding insisted, and Vallancey, with a lift of the brows, a snort, and a shrug, turned away to comply. "Do you mean," quoth Trenchard, bursting with indignation, "that you will let live a man who has struck you?" Wilding took his friend affectionately by the arm. "It is a whim of mine," said he.

It was hard to believe the Duke of Monmouth mad enough to spoil all by this sudden and unheralded precipitation. "You heard the news at Whitp Lackington?" said he slowly. "Who carried it thither?" "There were two messengers," answered Vallancey, with restrained impatience, "and they were Heywood Dare who has been appointed paymaster to the Duke's forces and Mr. Chamberlain." Mr.

Their arrival had an oddly sobering effect upon young Westmacott, for which Mr. Vallancey was thankful. For during their ride he had begun to fear that he had carried too far the business of equipping his principal with artificial valour. Trenchard came forward to offer Vallancey the courteous suggestion that Mr. Wilding's servant should charge himself with the care of the horses of Mr.

He stole to his window and lent an ear, but the voices were receding, and to his vexation he caught nothing of what was said. He wondered how soon Vallancey would come, and for what hour the encounter had been appointed. Vallancey had remained behind at Scoresby Hall last night to make the necessary arrangements with Trenchard, who was to act for Mr. Wilding.

Trenchard laughed short and contemptuously. "There is," said he, "no rancour more bitter than that of the mean man who has offended you and whom you have spared. I beg you'll ponder it." He lowered his voice as he ended his admonition, for Vallancey and Westmacott were coming up, followed by Sir Rowland Blake.

Richard, although his courage had been sinking lower and lower in a measure as he had grown more and more sober with the approach of the moment for engaging, came forward now with a firm step and an arrogant mien; for Vallancey had given him more than a hint of what was toward.

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