Craven Le Noir was so pleased with his plan that he immediately set
about putting it in execution. Our next chapter will show how he
succeeded.
CHAPTER XVI.
CAP'S RAGE
Is he not approved to the height of a villain, who hath
slandered, scorned, dishonored thy kinswoman. Oh! that I
were a man for his sake, or had a friend who would be
one for mine!
--SHAKESPEARE.
Autumn brought the usual city visitors to Hurricane Hall to spend
the sporting season and shoot over Major Warfield's grounds. Old
Hurricane was in his glory, giving dinners and projecting hunts.
Capitola also enjoyed herself rarely, enacting with much
satisfaction to herself and guests her new role of hostess, and not
unfrequently joining her uncle and his friends in their field
sports.
Among the guests there were two who deserve particular attention,
not only because they had been for many years annual visitors of
Hurricane Hall, but more especially because there had grown up
between them and our little madcap heroine, a strong mutual
confidence and friendship. Yet no three persons could possibly be
more unlike than Capitola and the two cousins of her soul, as she
called these two friends. They were both distant relatives of Major
Warfield, and in right of this relationship invariably addressed
Capitola as "Cousin Cap.
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