apa says: 'Here's poor Harry killed, my dear;' on which mamma
gives a great scream; and oh, Harry! she drops down; and I thought she
was dead too. And you never saw such a way as papa was in: he swore one
of his great oaths: and he turned quite pale; and then he began to laugh
somehow, and he told the Doctor to take his horse, and me to follow him;
and we left him. And I looked back, and saw him dashing water out of the
fountain on to mamma. Oh, she was so frightened!"

Musing upon this curious history--for my Lord Mohun's name was Henry
too, and they called each other Frank and Harry often--and not a little
disturbed and anxious, Esmond rode home. His dear lady was on the
terrace still, one of her women with her, and my lord no longer there.
There are steps and a little door thence down into the road. My lord
passed, looking very ghastly, with a handkerchief over his head, and
without his hat and periwig, which a groom carried, but his politeness
did not desert him, and he made a bow to the lady above.

"Thank heaven, you are safe," she said.

"And so is Harry too, mamma," says little Frank,--"huzzay!"

Harry Esmond got off the horse to run to his mistress, as did little
Frank, and one of the grooms took charge of the two beasts, while the
other, hat and periwig in hand, walked by my lord's bridle to the front
gate, which lay half a mile away.

"Oh, my boy! what a fright you have given me!" Lady Castlewood said,
when Harry Esmond came up, greeting him with one of her shining looks,
and a voice of tender welcome; and she was so kind as to kiss the young
man ('twas the second time she had so honored him), and she walked into
the house between him and her son, holding a hand of each.

CHAPTER XIV.

WE RIDE AFTER HIM TO LONDON.

After a repose of a couple of days, the Lord Mohun was so far recovered
of his hurt as to be able to announce his departure for the next
morning; when, accordingly, he took leave of Castlewood, proposing to
ride to London by easy stages, and lie two nights upon the road. His
host treated him with a studied and ceremonious courtesy, certainly
different from my lord's usual frank and careless demeanor; but there
was no reason to suppose that the two lords parted otherwise than good
friends, though Harry Esmond remarked that my Lord Viscount only saw
his guest in company with other persons, and seemed to avoid being alone
with him. Nor did he ride any distance with Lord Mohun, as his c