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"I have met the son," went on Lady Calverly. "Yes?" Phillipa's tone was one of absolute indifference. "He is a gentleman." "I have always heard of him as a solemn prig 'Old Steady' he was named at college. I confess I have no special leaning to these very proper and decorous youths." "Do not say that you are harping still on that old affair. I assure you Gilly Jillingham is unworthy of you.
Harold Purling at a glance could read between the lines; he could trace effect to cause, and readily understood why his mother was so anxious for his return. "One of Lady Gayfeather's girls, is she? I never thought much of that lot. However but why on earth should Lady Calverly take my dear mother up in this way, at the eleventh hour?"
Miss Fanshawe could hardly escape scot-free from her associations, nor was it to her advantage that rumour had bracketed her name with that of a successful but not popular man of fashion. There had been a talk of marriage, but he had next to nothing; no more had she. "We must have an end to all that," said Lady Calverly decisively. "You must promise me to forget Mr. Jillingham for good and all."
There, to the left, gules and argent, per pale, is the pennon of the stout old Englishman, Chandos. Ha! I see the old Free Companions are here with Sir Hugh Calverly! Why, 'twas but the other day they were starting to set this very Don Enrique on the throne as blithely as they now go to drive him from his."
Neither can we collect together a few scores of free lances, like honest Hugh Calverly in the Black Prince's time, or brave Harry Butler of Wallenstein's dragoons, and serve this or that prince, Peter the Cruel or Henry of Trastamare, Gustavus or the Emperor, at our leisure; or, in default of service, fight and rob on our own gallant account, as the good gentlemen of old did. Alas! no.
"I warrant you will be warm enough ere you get through," said Calverly. "Or cold forever. Candle shall burn and bell toll at Alnwick Chapel if I leave this ground alive, but come what may, fair sirs, it should be a famous joust and one which will help us forward. Surely each of us will have worshipfully won worship, if we chance to come through."
For about seventeen years, in fact, during which time Lord and Lady Calverly had completely ignored the existence of their near neighbour, Mrs. Purling. Compton Revel might have been a paradise, and the heiress an exiled peri waiting at the gates. The party assembled was after Mrs. Purling's own heart.
The Catholic university of Ireland, as will be seen from the following letter, was also then preparing, for which its first legislator had turned to Mr. Hope as among the most trusted of his advisers. J. R. Hope, Esq., Q.C. to the Very Rev. Dr. Newman. 5 Calverly Terrace, Tunbridge Wells: October 23, '52. Dear Newman, I am much grieved by the account of your health which you send.
Calverly thought that a raid might be made into the South where the main French power lay. Others spoke of an attack upon Vannes. To all these eager opinions Bambro' listened in a moody silence, which he broke at last by a fierce execration which drew a hushed attention from the company. "Say no more, fair sirs," he cried; "for indeed your words are like so many stabs in my heart.
He was never properly conscious afterwards, and he died in Paris last Thursday, and was buried in the Protestant cemetery at Mont Parnasse on the Saturday following. The will which was in our custody was opened in London yesterday, by Lord Frederick Calverly, in Miss Blanchflower's presence. We understand from her that she has already written to you on the subject.
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