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Their own lamps provided the only light there was, and when they presently turned sharply at right angles he gathered himself together instinctively in preparation for a smash. But nothing happened. They tore on a little farther in darkness, travelling along a private road; and then the lights of a house pierced the gloom. Coningsby brought his car to a standstill. "Tumble out!
'And free from cares, added the stranger. Then, looking through the window, he said, 'A strange storm this. I was sauntering in the sunshine, when suddenly I found I had to gallop for my life. 'Tis more like a white squall in the Mediterranean than anything else. 'I never was in the Mediterranean, said Coningsby. 'There is nothing I should like so much as to travel.
Rigby, facing Coningsby as he entered, was leaning over the back of a large chair, from which as Coningsby was announced by the valet, the Lord of the house slowly rose, for he was suffering slightly from the gout, his left hand resting on an ivory stick. Lord Monmouth was in height above the middle size, but somewhat portly and corpulent.
'I long to see your mare again, said Coningsby. 'She seemed to me so beautiful. 'She is not only of pure race, said the stranger, 'but of the highest and rarest breed in Arabia. Her name is "the Daughter of the Star."
The calmer Henry Sydney was consoled for the misfortunes of Coningsby by a fanciful project himself to pass a portion of his life amid these halls and courts, gardens and terraces, that maintain in the heart of a great city in the nineteenth century, so much of the grave romance and picturesque decorum of our past manners.
She came down slowly; as she approached them her father said, 'A friend you have often heard of, Edith: this is Mr. Coningsby. She started; blushed very much; and then, with a trembling and uncertain gait, advanced, put forth her hand with a wild unstudied grace, and said in a tone of sensibility, 'How often have we all wished to see and to thank you!
'But give us your news, Edith, said Coningsby. 'Imagine our suspense, when it is a question, whether we are all to look picturesque or quizzical. 'Ah, you want to know whether you can go as Cardinal Mazarin, or the Duke of Ripperda, Harry.
Sidonia had explained to Lady Wallinger the cause of Coningsby's disinheritance. Lady Wallinger had told Oswald and Edith; and Oswald had urged on his father the recognition of his friend's affection for his sister. On his own impulse Mr. Millbank decided that Coningsby should contest Dartford. Mr. Rigby was beaten; and Coningsby arrived at Dartford in time to receive the cheers of thousands.
There, I have done it for you. 'That's a good fellow. 'Any fellow seen Buckhurst? 'Gone up the river with Coningsby and Henry Sydney. 'But he must be back by this time. I want him to make the list for the match to-morrow. Where the deuce can Buckhurst be?
The favourite of the school like Coningsby, he could, under no circumstances, ever have become; nor was he qualified to obtain that general graciousness among the multitude, which the sweet disposition of Henry Sydney, or the gay profusion of Buckhurst, acquired without any effort. Millbank was not blessed with the charm of manner.
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