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When my meal was over, and my stomach and my pockets all full, Aunt Gainor bade me sit on her knees, and began to tell me about what fine gentlemen were the Wynnes, and how foolish my grandfather had been to turn Quaker and give up fox-hunting and the old place. I was told, too, how much she had lost to Mr.
Mon Dieu! mon Dieu! j'en ai peur; the wild Welsh blood of these Wynnes! And thy poor little nose how 't is swelled!" Not understanding her exclamations, Jack said as much, but she answered: "Oh, it is a fashion of speech we French have. I shall never be cured of it, I fear. This wild blood what will come of it?"
"I am afraid that is but too true, unless your head is better than mine. We are a sad set, we Wynnes. All the prosperity, and I fear much of the decency of the family, crossed the ocean long ago." "Yet I should like to see Wyneote," said I. "I think thou didst tell me it is not thy home."
With a little more talk of the Wynnes, the captain, declining to remain longer, rose, and, turning to me, said, "I hear, Cousin Hugh, that you refused to say that you were sorry for the sharp lesson you gave me the other night. I have made my peace with your mother." "I shall see that my son behaves himself in future. Thou hast heard thy cousin, Hugh?"
Your grandfather made a legal conveyance of an unentailed property, got some ready money, how much I never knew, and came away. How can you interfere with Arthur? The Wynnes, I have heard, have Welsh memories for an insult. You struck him once." "The blow!" and I smiled. "Yes; the woman! Pray God it be that. The estate he is welcome to it.
He was tall and well built, but not so broad or strong as we other Wynnes; certainly an unusually handsome man. He carried his head high, was very erect, and had an air of distinction, for which at that time I should have had no name. I may add that he was dressed with unusual neatness, and very richly; all of which, I being but a half-formed young fellow, did much impress me.
He came near to worse things than harsh words. Be warned, my son. It is a terrible set-back from right living to come of a hot-blooded breed like these Wynnes." I looked up at Mm as he spoke. He was smiling, "But not all bad, Hugh, not all bad. Remember that it is something, in this nest of disloyal traders, to have come of gentle blood."
We are hot-blooded people, we Wynnes. The ways of Friends are not our ways of dealing with an injury; and it was more I wish to say so it was an insult. He was right." "There is no such thing as insult in the matter," said my father. "We may insult the great Master, but it is not for man to resent or punish." "I fear as to that we shall continue to differ." He spoke with the utmost deference.
There is some pleasing ceremony, but I forget. The Wynnes have been long enough in drab and trade. It is time we took back our swords, and quitted bow-thouing and bow-theeing." I said I did not understand. "Oh, you will," said Aunt Gainor, giving me a great apple-dumpling. "Take some molasses. Oh, as much as you please. I shall look away, as I do when the gentlemen take their rum."
"I should be a brute if I did not say yes, and mean it, too; but I cannot declare that I am sorry, except for the whole business." And with this I took his left hand, a variety of the commonplace ceremony which always, to my last knowledge of Captain Wynne, affected me unpleasantly. He laughed. "They call us hi Merionethshire the wilful Wynnes.
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