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All this time we had seen nothing of the lady of the house; and I was just beginning to speculate as to whether that crowning ornament could be wanting to this pleasant home, when the door at the further end of the room suddenly opened, and there glided out into the sunshine "The White Lady of Avenel."
The Great Day arrived at last; and Mr. Richard Avenel, from his dressing-room window, looked on the scene below as Hannibal or Napoleon looked from the Alps on Italy. It was a scene to gratify the thought of conquest, and reward the labours of ambition.
Her lips at length became blenched and her eye dim; yet she spoke not of any desire to see a priest, until Elspeth Glendinning in her zeal could not refrain from touching upon a point which she deemed essential to salvation. Alice of Avenel received her hint kindly, and thanked her for it.
Admit them." The Committee were hushed in breathless silence while Harley's order was obeyed. And soon, to their great surprise, Leonard Fairfield himself, attended by six of the principal members of the Yellow party, entered the room. LORD L'ESTRANGE. "You have a proposition to make to us, Mr. Fairfield, on behalf of yourself and Mr. Avenel, and with the approval of your Committee?" "I have.
"You can get through the gap in the hedge, by the old pollard-oak," said Richard; "and come round by the front of the house. Why, you're not afraid, are you?" "I am a stranger." "Shall I introduce you? I told you that I knew the old couple." "Oh, no, sir! I would rather meet them alone." "Go; and wait a bit-hark ye, young man, Mrs. Avenel is a cold-mannered woman; but don't be abashed by that."
"Edward Glendinning," answered the Abbot, with a suitable reverence. "Art thou of the blood of the Knight of Avenel?" said the Lady of Lochleven. "Ay, madam, and that nearly," replied the pretended soldier.
Forget for the present the words that justly stung and offended you. I will do more than apologize, I will repair the wrong. Excuse me, Mr. Dale, I have one word to say in private to Leonard." He drew Fairfield aside. "Avenel tells me that if you were to retire from this contest, it would be a sacrifice of inclination. Is it so?"
I did not come from Avenel to be browbeaten in Holyrood." "Bravo, my lad!" said Michael; "it is a fine spirit if you can but hold it but see, the door opens."
I cannot deny that he who wronged, it may be with no common treachery, that young mother for Nora Avenel was not one to be lightly seduced into error " "Indeed, no!" "And who then thought no more of the offspring of her anguish and his own crime I cannot deny that that man deserves some chastisement, should render some atonement. Am I not right here?
Let him not go back to Julian Avenel that unconscientious baron would not stick to plunder the exiled stranger Let him remain here the spot is secluded, and if the accommodation be beneath his quality, discovery will become the less likely. We will make such means for his convenience as we can devise."
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