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His baggage was sent thither . He took a boat down to Appledore that very afternoon , and vanished , none knew whither . A very courteous note to Lady Grenville , enclosing the jewel which he had been used to wear round his neck , was the only memorial he left behind him : except , indeed , the scar on Cary 's arm , and poor Rose 's broken heart . Now county towns are scandalous places at best ; and though all parties tried to keep the duel secret , yet , of course , before noon all Bideford knew what had happened , and a great deal more ; and what was even worse , Rose , in an agony of terror , had seen Sir Richard Grenville enter her father 's private room , and sit there closeted with him for an hour and more ; and when he went , upstairs came old Salterne , with his stick in his hand , and after rating her soundly for far worse than a flirt , gave her -LRB- I am sorry to have to say it , but such was the mild fashion of paternal rule in those times , even over such daughters as Lady Jane Grey , if Roger Ascham is to be believed -RRB- such a beating that her poor sides were black and blue for many a day ; and then putting her on a pillion behind him , carried her off twenty miles to her old prison at Stow mill , commanding her aunt to tame down her saucy blood with bread of affliction and water of affliction . Which commands were willingly enough fulfilled by the old dame , who had always borne a grudge against Rose for being rich while she was poor , and pretty while her daughter was plain ; so that between flouts , and sneers , and watchings , and pretty open hints that she was a disgrace to her family , and no better than she should be , the poor innocent child watered her couch with her tears for a fortnight or more , stretching out her hands to the wide Atlantic , and calling wildly to Don Guzman to return and take her where he would , and she would live for him and die for him ; and perhaps she did not call in vain . `` The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ; For the deck it was their field of fame , And ocean was their grave . '' CAMPBELL .