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Updated: June 10, 2025
But that he should have asked Honnor Cunyngham to come and look on at the antics of this gaping and grinning fool; that she should know he had to consort with such folk; that she should consider him an aider and abettor in putting this kind of entertainment before the public this galled him to the quick. The murmur of the Aivron and the Geinig seemed dinning in his ears.
"I say," continued the bright-eyed, ruddy-haired lass, "what do you and Honnor Cunyngham talk about all day long, when you are away on those fishing excursions? Don't you bore each other to death? Oh, I know she's rather learned, though she doesn't bestow much of her knowledge upon us.
"There are so many things I should like to say to you, Miss Honnor; but somehow they always escape you just when they're wanted; and I've told you so often before that I am not likely to forget your kindness to me up here " "Surely it is the other way about!" she said, pleasantly.
And at last his patience, or his obstinacy, was rewarded; he saw two figures away along there that he instantly recognized; even at a greater distance he could have told that one of these was Honnor Cunyngham, for who else in all England walked like that?
"Thank you very much; I would rather see you hook and land it than have the compliment of its being sent to me twenty times over. I was thinking this very minute of the Aivron, and your getting down to the ford the day after to-morrow, and old Robert being there to welcome you. I envy him and you. Are you to be all by yourself at the lodge?" "For the present, yes," Miss Honnor said.
It was Honnor Cunyngham who did that for you last time, and I think it should be my turn to-morrow morning." "Oh, thank you!" said he; but "Thank you for nothing!" he said in his heart; for why should any frivolous trinket even when presented by this very charming and complaisant young damsel be allowed to interfere with the prerogative of Miss Cunyngham's sacred talisman?
"Lady Adela and the young ladies are all busy dressmaking." "Ye may be getting ready, Miss Honnor," old Robert interposed. "There'll be a cloud over the sun directly." Thus admonished, the tall young fisher-maiden stepped down by the side of a rock overhanging this wide, black-swirling pool, and proceeded to get her tackle in order.
There is a smell of peat in the air; there are children's voices about the keepers' cottages; and here is the handsome old Robert, rejoiced that the year has opened again and Miss Honnor come back! "Well, Robert, you must come in and have a dram, and I will show you the tackle I've brought with me."
Honnor Cunyngham was quite as proud as Lionel himself that he had killed a stag; for in a measure he was her pupil; at all events it was at her instigation that he was devoting himself to these athletic sports and pastimes, and so far withdrawing himself from the trivialities and affectations of the serious little band of amateurs.
"Oh, ay, Miss Honnor will go out," Roderick made answer; "but she will only be able to fish the tail-ends o' the pools ay, and it will not be easy to put a fly over the water, unless the wind goes down a bit." "But do you mean she will go out on a day like this?" he demanded again as he looked at the wild skies and the thundering river.
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