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Observing from without that the light in Leigh's windows was dim, he concluded that he was still upon the tower and went on up the stairs, striking match after match to guide his steps. As he paused to extinguish the embers, he encountered the blank darkness of the walls, relieved by ghostly slits of windows holding here and there a star; and the hollow drumming of the wind was like the sea.
"I'd run a mile for a woman when I would not walk a yard for a man; and Who is this our mother is bringing in? The handsomest fellow I ever saw in my life!" Amyas was not far wrong; for Mrs. Leigh's companion was none other than Mr. Secretary, Amyas's Smerwick Fort acquaintance; alias Colin Clout, alias Immerito, alias Edmund Spenser.
The only comforting thing in the letter is the assurance that he weighs more, and is in better health, than when he left home." The ringing of the door-bell announced Mr. Leigh's arrival, and as she led the way to the parlor, Mrs. Murray hastily fastened a drooping spray of coral berries in Edna's hair.
We'll show the fathers what the sons can do." A thrill of happiness lighted Leigh's face for a moment, then a shadow fell over it as she said: "Thaine, Darley Champers and I have kept a secret for a year." "You kept it 'danged' well. What was it?" Thaine asked gaily. "Jane Aydelot, who died last year, left me all her property," Leigh began.
Yet fate it seemed was bent upon frustrating that purpose of his. For when at dawn they came to hale Sir Oliver to his doom, they paid no heed to Jasper Leigh's demands that he, too, should be taken before Sir John. "Thee bean't included in our orders," said a seaman shortly. "Maybe not," retorted Master Leigh, "because Sir John little knows what it is in my power to tell him.
Had the Vendeans pursued the fugitives with vigour, the force would have been almost annihilated; but Cathelineau, learning from Leigh's scouts that Berruyer was already approaching Vezins, feared to be taken in the rear by him, and therefore fell back to May and Beaupreau.
Amyas Leigh's descendants? Was that story true? Oh! " And here manners and curiosity met and the first had the second by the throat. She stopped. But our sailor looked up with a boyish laugh that illumined his dark face. "Is it so picturesque? I have been brought up so close that it seems commonplace to me. Every one must be descended from somebody, you know."
The moment they did so, Leigh's horn sounded; and at once the defenders rushed up the hill, pursued by the Blues, with exulting shouts. But few shots were fired, for the assailants had emptied their muskets before striving to pass through the obstacle. Leigh and his men had run but a hundred yards into the wood when they met the main body of the peasants, rushing down at full speed.
A cloud of surprise intermingled with contempt darkened Leigh's intellectual brows. "Never!" he said emphatically, "I should not have thought so much of him if he had laid any claim to such a pretence!" Gherardi laughed again softly. "What a pity," he observed, "What a pity you clever heretics are so violent!
Many of the others were inclined to follow his lead, and would have done so more openly, were it not that they held in respect Leigh's strength, and readiness in the science they called le boxe. The talk that there might be troubles in La Vendee heightened his satisfaction at leaving Nantes, and going down to stay in the country.
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