denly told, while waiting for Frida to
sit beside him, at his one o'clock dinner:

"Plaize, my lard, your lardship's darter hath a been and jumped off Duty
Point."

"What an undutiful thing to do!" was the first thing Lord de Wichehalse
said; and those who knew no better thought that this was how he took it.

Aubyn Auberley, however, took a different measure of a broken-hearted
father's strength. For the baron buckled on the armour of a century ago,
which had served his grandsire through hard blows in foreign battles,
and, with a few of his trusty servants, rode to join the Parliament. It
happened so that he could not make redress of his ruined life until the
middle of the summer. Then, at last, his chance came to him, and he
did not waste it. Viscount Auberley, who had so often slipped away and
laughed at him, was brought to bay beneath a tree in the famous fight of
Lansdowne.

The young man offered to hold parley, but the old man had no words.
His snowy hair and rugged forehead, hard-set mouth and lifted arm, were
enough to show his meaning. The gallant, being so skilled of fence,
thought to play with this old man as he had with his daughter; but the
Gueldres ax cleft his curly head, and split what little brain it takes
to fool a trusting maiden.

So, in early life, deceiver and deceived were quit of harm; and may ere
now have both found out whether it is better to inflict the wrong or
suffer it.

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