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This deed makes you Lord of Mounchensey, Lanyere." And he handed it to him. "And this makes Sir Francis Mitchell ruler of the destiny of Aveline Calveley," rejoined Lanyere, giving a paper to the old usurer. "This chest and its contents are yours also, Lanyere," pursued Sir Giles, putting in the deeds, and locking it. "Will it please you to take the key.
Stand forward, fair Mistress Aveline Calveley, and substantiate what I have just declared." Thus adjured, the maiden approached within a few paces of the Prince, and having made a lowly salutation, said, "All that your Highness has advanced concerning me is correct." "Enough, fair mistress," rejoined Charles. "How say you, Sirs," he continued, in a stern tone, to the two extortioners.
Almost with his last breath, a promise was extorted from his daughter by Hugh Calveley, that if her hand should be claimed within a year by one to whom he had engaged her, but with whose name even she was wholly unacquainted, she would unhesitatingly give it to him." "And will the claim be made?" "It will." "And think you she will fulfil her promise?" "I am sure of it.
Hugh Calveley, who was still intently reading the Bible, which he had placed upon his knee while he held the lamp near it, to throw the light upon its leaves, did not appear to be disturbed by the opening of the door, nor did he raise his eyes. But, at last, a deep groan issuing from the breast of the young man aroused him, and he held up the lamp to ascertain who was near.
He could not acquit himself of blame for the part he had played, though involuntarily, in the arrest of Hugh Calveley. It was inexpressibly painful to him; and he felt it as a reproach from which he could not free himself, to have risen, however unexpectedly on his own part, by the unfortunate Puritan's fall. How could he ever face Aveline again!
Master Hugh Calveley, he went on to say, was a strict Puritan, austere in his life, and morose in manner; an open railer against the licence of the times, and the profligacy of the court minions, in consequence of which he had more than once got himself into trouble.
The most famous of them were members of gentle but obscure houses, whose poverty debarred them from the ordinary avenues to fame and fortune, and whose vigour and ability made good use of their exceptional positions. Two Cheshire kinsmen, Hugh Calveley and Robert Knowles, thus won, each for himself, a place in history.
Some dissent was offered to this singular proposition, but the majority of voices overruled it; and withdrawing for a moment, Hugh Calveley returned with an arbalist, which he proceeded deliberately to arm in view of the crowd, and then placed a quarrel within it.
"Your life!" exclaimed Hugh Calveley, grasping his arm almost fiercely, while his eye blazed. "Consider what you offer." "I need not consider," Jocelyn rejoined. "I repeat my life is yours, if you demand it." "Perhaps I shall demand it," cried Hugh Calveley. "Ere long, perhaps." "Demand it when you will," Jocelyn said. "Father!"
"Present this nosegay on my part to the young lady in yonder window." "What! offer this to Mistress Aveline Calveley?" Gillian exclaimed in surprise. "Are you sure she will accept it, Sir?" "Tut! do his bidding, child, without more ado," old Greenford interposed. "I shall like to see what will come of it ha! ha!" Gillian could not help smiling too, and proceeded on her mission.
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