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Oh, what is it? she whispered, scarcely able to walk, but declining the colonel's arm. 'You ought not to have been dragged out here, said he. 'Any one might have known there would be no convincing of Captain Beauchamp. That old rascal in Bevisham has been having a beating; that's all. And a very beautiful day it is! a little too hot, though.
Gannet did not allude to it; the Bevisham doctor did; and the earl meditated with a fury of wrath on the dismal chance that such a folly as this of one old vegetable idiot influencing a younger noodle, might strike his House to the dust. His watch over his wife had grown mechanical: he failed to observe that her voice was missing. She rarely spoke.
'I suspect you have the worst of it there, papa, said Cecilia, taken by the unexpectedness and smartness of the comparison coming from wits that she had been undervaluing. 'I shall not own I'm worsted until I surrender my vote, the colonel rejoined. 'I won't despair of it, said Beauchamp. Colonel Halkett bade him come for it as often as he liked. You'll be beaten in Bevisham, I warn you.
She however carried a lamp that revealed him footing on with a wonderful air of confidence, and she was rather surprised to hear her father regret that Nevil Beauchamp should be losing his good looks already, owing to that miserable business of his in Bevisham. She would have thought the contrary, that he was looking as well as ever. 'He dresses just as he used to dress, she observed.
Some time after Beauchamp had been seen renewing his canvass in Bevisham a report reached Mount Laurels that he was lame of a leg. The wits of the opposite camp revived the FRENCH MARQUEES, but it was generally acknowledged that he had come back without the lady: she was invisible.
Lord Romfrey's faith in the power of constitution to beat disease battled sturdily with the daily reports of his physician and friends, whom he had directed to visit the cottage on the common outside Bevisham, and with Miss Denham's intercepted letters to the countess.
He said carelessly of Commander Beauchamp, that he might think himself one. Either the Radical candidate for Bevisham stood self-deceived, or the other supposition. Mr. Tuckham would venture to state that no English gentleman, exempt from an examination by order of the Commissioners of Lunacy, could be sincerely a Radical.
She was feverish with a deep and unconcealed affliction, and behaved as if her pride had gone. But if her pride had gone she would have eased her heart by sobbing outright. A similar division harassed her as when her friend Nevil was the candidate for Bevisham.
'How good it was of you to come twice to Mount Laurels, said she. 'I have not missed you to-day. No address was on your card. Where are you staying in the neighbourhood? At Mr. Lespel's? 'I'm staying at a Bevisham hotel, said Beauchamp. 'You have not been to Steynham yet? Papa comes home from Steynham to-night. 'Does he?
Wardour- Devereux; one selecting a cigar to light out of doors, the other debating between two pipes. She beckoned to Palmet, and commissioned him to inform Beauchamp that she wished him to drive her down to Bevisham in her pony-carriage. Palmet brought back word from Beauchamp that he had an appointment at ten o'clock in the town. 'I want to see him, she said; so Palmet ran out with the order.
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