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CHAPTER 1 The Amorous Hostess SHE times were full of trouble; but Martha Quinn was unperturbed. Hers was a mind that confined itself to the essentials of life; its sustenance and reproduction. Not for her to plague herself with the complexities of existence, with considerations of the hereafter or disputations upon the wvrious creeds by which its happiness may be ensured — a matter upon which men have always been ready to send one another upon exploring voyages thither —or yet with the political opinions by w hich a nation is fiercely divided. Not even the preparations for war with Holland, which were agitating men so violently, or the plague-scare based upon reports of several cases in the outskirts of the city, could disturb the serenity of her direct existence. The vices of the Court, which afforded such delectable scandal for the Town, touched her more nearly, as did the circumstance that yellow bird's-eye hiwxls were now all the rage with ladies

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of fashion, and the fact that London was lost ill worship f Ihe beauty and of Sylvia Farquharson. who was appearing with V'-. Betterton at the Duke's House in tin- part Df Katherine in Lord Orrery’s "Henry the Fifth." Even so. to Martha Quinn, who very competently kept the Paul's Head, in Paul's Yard, these things were but the unimportant trifles that garnish the dish of life. It was upon life's main concerns that she concentrated her attention. In all that regarded meat and drink her learning—as became the hostess of so prosperous a house—was probably unrivaled. Upon these talents was her solid prosperity erected. She possessed, further —as became the mother of six sturdy children of assorted paternity—a discerning eye for a fine figure of a man. It was to this sact —although he was very far from suspecting it — that Colonel Holies owed the good fortune of having lodged in luxury for the past month without ever a reckoning asked or so much us a question on the subject of his means. Mrs. Quinn had assigned to his extrusive use, a cosy little parlor behind

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the common room. On the window-1 seat of this little parlor now j lounged, whilst Mrs. Quinn herself — and the day was long past in which j it had been her need or habit with her own plump hands to perform so menial an office —removed from the j table the remains of his very solid; breakfast. Observing him furtively, with a fur- j tiveness, indeed, that was almost | habitual to her, Mrs. Quinn pursued j her task, moving between table and ] sideboard, and hesitated to break in i upon his abstraction. She was a 1 woman on the short side of middle j height, well hipped and deep of bosom, but not excessively. The phrase "plump as a partridge" might have j been invented to describe her. In age she cannot have been much short of 40, and whilst not without a certain homely comeliness, in no judgment but her own could she have been accounted beautiful. Very blue of eye and very ruddy of cheek, she looked the embodiment of health: and this rendered her not unpleasing. But the discerning would have perceived greed in the full mouth with its long 1 upper lip. and sly cunning—Nature's compensation to low intelligences—in her vivid eyes. It remains, however, that she was endowed with charms enough of person and fortune to attract Coleman, the bookseller from the corner of Paul's. Yard and Appleby, the mercer from Paternoster Bow. She might marry either of them when she pleased. But she did not please. Her regard for essentials rendered the knock-knees of Appleby as repulsive to her as the "bow-legs of Coleman. Os late, it is true, the thought of marriage had been engaging her. She realized that the age of adventure touched its end for her. and that the time had come to take a life com- I panion and settle soberly. Fifteen

years of good management, pros perity, and thrift at the Paul's Head had made her wealthy. When she pleased she could leave Paul's Yard, i acquire a modest demesne in the conui try. and "become one of the ladies of | the land, a position for which she felt I herself eminently qualified. That [ which her birth might lack, that in > which her birth might have done poor i justice to her nature, a husband could ; supply. Often of late had her cun 'ning blue eyes been narrowed in men- . tal review of this situation. What she ■ required for her purposes was a gentleman born and bred w hom fortune had reduced in circumstances and who would, therefore, be modest in the mutter of ?vatr:ntc ;ia! ambitions. He must also be a proper man. Such a man she had fo’ii.d at last in Colonel Holies. Fros.- the when a month ago she strode into her inn, followed by an urchin shouldering his valise and packages, and de liver?:! himself upon his immediate needs, she had recognized him for the j husband she sought, and marked him < for her own. At a glance she had | appraised him; the tall, soldierly flgi ure, broad to the waist, thence spare i to the ground; the handsome face. ; shaven like a Puritan's, yet set be- ; tween clusters of gold-bro-wn hair i thick is a cavalier's periwig, the long, i pear shaped ruby—a relic, no doubt. |of more prosperous days—dangling from his right ear; the long sword, upon whose pummel his left hand rested with the easy grace of long habit; the assured poise, the air of command, the pleasant yet authoritative voice. All this she observed with those vivid, narrowing eyes of hers. And she observed, too, the gentleman's discreditable shabbiness; the frayed condition of his long boots, the drooping, faded feather in his Flemish beaver, the well-rubbed leather jerkin, worn, no doubt, to conceal the threadbare state of doublet underneath. He had business in town, he announced—at Court, he added. It might detain him there some little while. He required lodgings perhaps for a week, perhaps for longer. Could she provide them? And although it was now a full month since his arrival and in all that time our gentleman had been lavishly entertained upon the best meat and drink the Paul’s Head could offer, yet in all that time there had been —I repeat—neither mention of a reckoning, nor question of his means to satisfy it.

Her housewifely operations being ended at last—after a prolongation which could Ije carried to no further lengths—she overcame her hesitation to break in upon his thoughts, which must be gloomy, indeed, if his countenance were a proper index. As she addressed him now. she held In her hand the long pewter vessel from which he had taken his morning draught. "Is there aught yet lack for comfort. Colonel?” He stirred, turned his head, to face her, and took the pipestem from between his lips. “Nothing. I thank you,” he answered, with a gravity that had been growing upon him in the last fortnight, to overcjoud the earlier good humor of his bearing. "What—nothing?” The buxom siren’s ruddy face was creased in an alluring smile. Aloft now she held the tankard, tilting her still golden head. "Not another draught of October before you go forth?” she coaxed him. As he looked at her now, he smiled. And it has been left on record by one who knew him well that his smile was irresistible, a smile that could always win him the man or woman upon whom he bestowed it. It had a trtck of breaking suddenly upon a face that in repose was wistful, like sun shine breaking suddenly from a gray sky. "Irvow you spoil me,” said he. She beamed upon him. “Isn’t that the duty of a proper hostess?’’ She set the tankard on the laden tray and bore it out with her. When she brought It back replenished, ami placed It on a coffin-stool beside him, he had changed hie attitude, but not his mood of thoughtfulness. He roused himself to thank her. She hovered near until he had taken a pull of brown October. "Do you go forth this morning?” “Aye,” he answered, but wearily, as if reduced to hopelessness. “They told me I should find his grace returned today. But they have told me the cme so often already that . . H*> and broke off, loiving Ids

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