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Understanding that Dumont had already discovered the design to the duke of Zell, and that he himself had been betrayed by Leefdale, he freely confessed all the particulars without enduring the torture; and, being found guilty by a court-martial, was executed as a traitor. About this period the duke of Leinster arrived at Ostend, with the troops which had been embarked at St. Helen's.
"I declare," interrupted Zell, "I believe that Edith would rather see a grape-vine and orange-tree than all the toilets of Paris." "I shall enjoy seeing both," was the reply, "and so have the advantage of you in having two strings to my bow." "By the way, that reminds me to ask how many beaux you now have on the string," said the father.
But it was just this that Zell feared, and though she repeated to herself over and over again Van Dam's last words, "I will never give you up," she feared that he would, or what would be equally painful, she would be compelled to give him up, for she could not disguise from herself that her confidence had been shaken. But sincere love is slow to believe evil of its object.
They had had but a light lunch at one o'clock, meaning to have a more substantial dinner at six. Hannibal was showing Zell and getting her started in her department. It was but a poor little dinner they had, and Zell said in place of dessert: "Edith, we are most out of everything." "And I can't get any work," said Edith despondingly.
"Dat means pure, doesn't it?" continued he. "Yes," said Zell, looking sadly down. "And it's sweet, isn't it? Now dat means lub." And Zell looked hopefully up. "And now, dear chile," said he, giving her a little impressive nudge, "see whar de white rose come from right up out of de brack, ugly ground."
"Nonsense," said Zell pettishly, "you know well enough that by the time we were sixteen our heads were so full of beaux, parties, and dress, that French and music were a bore. We went through the fashionable mills like the rest, and if father had continued worth a million or so, no one would have found fault with our education."
The duke, perceiving his design, sent three battalions of the troops of Zell to sustain his horse. Nevertheless, the line was a little disordered by the prodigious fire from the French infantry, and even obliged to recoil about sixty paces: but the confederates advancing to the charge with redoubled ardour, routed the French horse; and their battalions being thus abandoned, were cut in pieces.
As the long twilight was deepening, Hannibal, returning from the well with a pail of water, heard the gate-latch click, and, looking up, saw Zell hurrying out with hat and shawl on, and having the appearance of carrying something under her shawl. He felt a little surprise at first, but then, Zell was so full of impulse, that he concluded: "She's gwine to meet Miss Edie.
"Hush!" cried Zell, blazing with anger and starting up; "no one shall speak so of him. What more has Gus Elliot done?" "He has been useful as my errand boy," said Edith contemptuously, "and that's all he amounts to as far as I'm concerned. I am disgusted with men. Who in all our trouble has been noble and knightly toward us? "Be still, children; stop your quarrelling," broke in Mrs. Allen.
There were fewer pictures, but finer ones; and in all matters of art, French taste was not prominent, as had been the case in her home. The next day she sat by unconscious Zell as long as was permitted, and wrote fully to Laura. The dark-eyed girl that seemed dying the day before was gone. "Did she die?" she asked of an attendant. "Yes." "What did they do with her?"
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