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Always careless and lavish in money matters, generous and princely, not from the delight of serving others, but from a grand seigneur's sentiment of what was due to himself and his station, Audley had a mournful excuse for the lordly waste of the large fortune at his control. The morbid functions of the heart had become organic disease.

Mosgrave shook his head, gravely, when Mr. Audley came to the end of his story. "You have nothing further to tell me?" he said. "No. I do not think there is anything more that need be told," Robert answered, rather evasively. "You would wish to prove that this lady is mad, and therefore irresponsible for her actions, Mr. Audley?" said the physician.

But having thus, somewhat too tediously, explained the position of Audley Egerton, whether in the world or in relation to his young protege, I may now permit him to receive and to read his letters. Mr. Egerton glanced over the pile of letters placed beside him, and first he tore up some, scarcely read, and threw them into the waste-basket.

At least, no one was surprised when the great heiress, Clementina Leslie, kinswoman and ward to Lord Lansmere, a young lady who had refused three earls and the heir apparent to a dukedom, was declared by her dearest friends to be dying of love for Audley Egerton. It had been the natural wish of the Lansmeres that this lady should marry their son, Lord L'Estrange.

And self-accusing remorse, and all the sense of painful gratitude, deepened Audley's affection for Harley into a devotion as to a superior, while softening it into a reverential pity that yearned to relieve, to atone; but how, oh, how? A general election was now at hand, still no news of Nora. Levy kept aloof from Audley, pursuing his own silent search.

At college he had known Audley Egerton, though but slightly: that gentleman was then just rising into repute in parliament.

She intended tea, but meeting Mr. Audley again, he sent up a glass of wine. Even with this in hot water, Cherry could hardly be warmed again, and Wilmet lay down, clasping her round, and not daring to let her know of her own continued anxiety about the two brothers.

I shall speak very seriously to Sir Michael this very night." "Speak to papa," exclaimed Alicia; "you surely won't distress papa by suggesting such a possibility!" "I shall only put him on his guard, my dear Alicia." "But he'll never believe you," said Miss Audley; "he will laugh at such an idea." "No, Alicia; he will believe anything that I tell him," answered my lady, with a quiet smile.

On his last night in London, there entered to Bruce Carmyle at his apartment in South Audley Street, the Family's chosen representative, the man to whom the Family pointed with pride Uncle Donald, in the flesh. There were two hundred and forty pounds of the flesh Uncle Donald was in, and the chair in which he deposited it creaked beneath its burden.

When he returned, there was a deep wrinkle on his brow, but no change in his habits and avocations, except that, shortly afterwards, he accepted office, and thus became more busy than ever. Mr. Egerton had always been lavish and magnificent in money spatters. A rich man in public life has many claims on his fortune, and no one yielded to those claims with in air so regal as Audley Egerton.