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As lately as the year 1800 lately, that is, compared with the date of its building its existence at Byker was referred to in a magazine of the period. Now nothing is to be seen of it excepting a few stones here and there, for many miles from Wallsend; but the highroad westward from Newcastle, by Westgate Road, as is well known, follows the course of the Wall for nearly twenty miles.
"Make me realise that I had a sickly, morbid, rotten imagination heh? Come now, Murchison, why not say frankly that you packed me off to Westgate to get rid of what you considered an acute form of hysteria?" The Father was quite unmoved by this attack. "Come now, Guildea," he retorted, "what did you expect me to think? I saw no indication of hysteria in you. I never have.
"Only if you desire the information it is not the custom here for young ladies to knock about London with young men." "Miss Bessie has waltzed with me so often," observed Willie Woodley; "she can surely go out with me in a hansom." "I consider waltzing," said Mrs. Westgate, "the most innocent pleasure of our time."
Lord Lambeth stared, blushing a little; and Percy Beaumont stared a little also but only with his fine natural complexion glancing aside after a moment to see that his companion was not looking too credulous, for he had heard a great deal of American humor. "I daresay it is very jolly," said the younger gentleman. "I daresay it is," said Mr. Westgate.
Westgate continued. "On the contrary," said Bessie, "the duchess offered to show me the place herself." "Yes, you may depend upon it she won't let you out of her sight. She will show you the place from morning till night." "You have a theory for everything," said Bessie. "And you apparently have none for anything." "I saw no attempt to 'overawe' us," said the young girl.
"Westgate Buildings must have been rather surprised by the appearance of a carriage drawn up near its pavement," observed Sir Walter. "Sir Henry Russell's widow, indeed, has no honours to distinguish her arms, but still it is a handsome equipage, and no doubt is well known to convey a Miss Elliot. A widow Mrs Smith lodging in Westgate Buildings!
Clarke thanked him for Jenkins's address, and concluded with "Suggest your own day, or come and dine if you like. Perhaps, as you're alone, you'll prefer that. At Westgate Dion showed Rosamund Mrs. Clarke's letter. As she read it he watched her, but could gather nothing from her face. She was looking splendidly well and, he thought, peculiarly radiant.
This acted as an extinguisher of the warmer feelings. Let Mr. Urquhart do his worst then. A little cloud of witness, assembled at will like seagulls out of the blue inane, would come about her in after years. That madly exhilarating rush to Westgate, for instance, on a keen March morning; and that sudden question of hers to Urquhart, "What made you think of asking me?"
There were some three or four indeed which, in the play of his own intelligence, he had originated, and which had seemed convenient at the moment; but at the present time he could hardly have been said to follow Mrs. Westgate as she darted gracefully about in the sea of speculation.
And another time a boar came out by the Westgate Oaks, and he was a black, hairy fellow, and so funny with his chin-whiskers all dotted with icicles that I began to say aloud: 'I swear by the beard On my chinny-chin-chin And of course he was off before I could pull trigger for laughing. Isn't that foolish?" "Adorably," he whispered. "You are finding the little girl in the garden, Geraldine."
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