But I will be more sure
of it if you will find means of sending to them a letter which I shall
write to them. I tell you that you will do them a favor, and that if
you do not accept the offer, you will sacrifice your sisters' welfare
to your own pride--which I do not think you would do."
"Most certainly I will not do that," replied Edward; "and I am fully
sensible of your kind offer; but I can say no more until I hear what
your good aunts may reply to your letter. You mistake me much,
Chaloner, if you think that any sense of obligation would prevent me
from seeing my sisters removed from a position so unworthy of them,
but which circumstances have driven them to. That we are paupers, is
undeniable, but I never shall forgot that my sisters are the daughters
of Colonel Beverley."
"I am delighted with your reply, Edward, and I fear not that of my
good aunts. It will be a great happiness to me when I am wandering
abroad to know that your sisters are under their roof, and are being
educated as they ought to be."
"What's the matter, Pablo?" said Humphrey to the former, who came
running, out of breath.
"Soldiers," said Pablo, "plenty of them, gallop this way--gallop every
way."
"Now, Chaloner, we must get ourselves out of this scrape, and I trust
that afterward all be well," said Edward.
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