Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 07 by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
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"It shall be as you say. But if they do consent?"
"Then you will speak to me before you seek an interview with Lily, for then comes another question: Will her guardian consent?--and--and--" "And what?" "No matter. I rely on your honour in this request, as in all else. Good-day." She turned back with hurried footsteps, muttering to herself, "But they will not consent. Heaven grant that they will not consent, or if they do, what--what is to be said or done? Oh, that Walter Melville were here, or that I knew where to write to him!" On his way back to Cromwell Lodge, Kenelm was overtaken by the vicar. "I was coming to you, my dear Mr. Chillingly, first to thank you for the very pretty present with which you have gladdened the heart of my little Clemmy, and next to ask you to come with me quietly to-day to meet Mr. -----, the celebrated antiquarian, who came to Moleswich this morning at my request to examine that old Gothic tomb in our churchyard. Only think, though he cannot read the inscription any better than we can, he knows all about its history. It seems that a young knight renowned for feats of valour in the reign of Henry IV. married a daughter of one of those great Earls of Montfichet who were then the most powerful family in these parts. He was slain in defending the church from an assault by some disorderly rioters of the Lollard faction; he fell on the very spot where the tomb is now placed. That accounts for its situation in the churchyard, not within |
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