Page 26 (1/1)

"May it be so," said the Canon, "that were a step to the undoing of a great wrong"

"Mr Scrivener will tell you, sir, that there was no justice in the eye of the law," said the Major

"Summum jus, summa injuria," quoted, sotto voce, Mr Arden, a entleues and the grandees He was not listened to Each knot of speakers was beco louder in debate, and Dr Boltby's voice was hardly heard when he announced that a rain of blood had fallen on the Macgillicuddy mountains in Ireland, testified to by numerous respectable Protestant witnesses, and attributable, either to the late comet, or to the Pretender

At that ht in by the postman, and each recipient had--not without murmurs--to produce his purse and pay heavily for them There were not many The Doctor had two, Mr Arden one, Mr Scrivener no less than five, but of them tere franked, and a franked letter was likewise handed over to Major DeLavie, with the word "Aresfield" written in the corner

"Frohbour

"Aye, aye," said the Major, putting it into his pocket, being by no aze

"A good o up from his paper And the Major smiled in return, put a word or two into the discussion on affairs, and then, as soon as he thought he could take leave without betraying anxiety, he limped down stairs, and called for his horse Lady Belamour's letters ont to be calls for hts, and this hung heavy in the laced pocket of his coat

Paled it advisable to put no questions about the nehile hisold manor house, and entered a stone-paved low room, a sort of office or study, where he received, and paid, money for my Lady, and smoked his pipe Here he sat down in his wooden ars, and took out the letter, opening it with careful avoidance of defacing the large red seal, covered with ning over all

It opened, as he expected, with replies to some matters about leases and repairs; and then followed:-"I a up whoood Match, or else an honourable Livelihood; I a, for the Sake of our Faest Girl, whose Name I understand to be Aurelia I will cause her to be trained in useful Works inher, in Return, to assist in the Care and Instruction ofChildren; and if she please me and prove herself worthy and attentive, I will bestow her Marriage upon some suitable Person This is the e and Health are such that I e of my Estate--in which indeed you are continued only out of Consideration of an extreer and more active Man, bred to the Profession, would serve me far more profitably"