' And sure enough, I
knew it, for it was a knot of the very ribbon you had in your hair
the day I came to talk to your sister about the journey."
"That was what Amy told me she gave him."
"Nothing loth would he be to take it, miss! Though says he, 'Don't
you let my mother know I have tracked her, nurse,' says he. 'It is
plain enough why she gives out that I am not to go near my uncle,
and if she guessed where I had been, she would have some of her
fancies.' 'Now your Honour, my dear,' says I, 'you'll excuse your
old nurse, but her sister put her in my charge, and though I bless
Heaven that you are no young rake, yet you will be bringing trouble
untold on her and hers if you go down there a courting of her
unbeknownst.' 'No danger of that, nurse,' says he; 'why there's
a she-dragon down there (meaning Mrs. Aylward) that was ready to
drive me out of my own house when I did but speak of waiting to
see her.'"
"No, I am glad he will not come again. Yet it makes his uncle happy
to see him. I will keep out of the way if he does."
"Right too, miss. A young lady never loses by discretion."
"Oh, do not speak in--in that way," said Aurelia, blushing at the
implication. "Besides, he is going home with my Lady to dear
Carminster."
"No, no, he remains with his regiment in town, unless he rides down
later when he can have his leave of absence, and my Lady is at the
Bath.
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