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Count Devereux, will you come with me to the Duchess's?" "What! the Duchess's immediately after Lord Bolingbroke's! the Whig after the Tory: it would be as trying to one's assurance as a change from the cold bath to the hot to one's constitution." "Well, and what so delightful as a trial in which one triumphs? and a change in which one does not lose even one's countenance?"
"No, certainly; not unless Lord O'Toole has promised not that I depend on courtiers' promises but Lord O'Toole is a relation of ours, and he has promised to obtain an appointment abroad, in India, for Mr. Devereux. If that were done, he might appear of more consequence in the eyes of the world. My mother might then, perhaps, be propitious.
That single indulgence of emotion followed immediately after my resolution of not forcing Gerald into bodily contest. I left my sword, lest I might be tempted to forget my determination. I rode to Devereux Court; I entered Gerald's chamber, while my horse stood unstalled at the gate. I said but few words, but each word was a volume.
Miss Devereux was the leader, by virtue, not of extra age, no indeed! but of height, manner, and experience. She apologized, with the most refined accent, for Mme. Nadine, who was "quite prostrated"; for Mme. Nadine's manageress, who was even worse; and for themselves. "I'm afraid we must do the best we can alone," she finished with unconscious pathos.
"I am Liane Devereux, not a Portuguese woman, not the Countess de Mattos, therefore Maxime Dalahaide is not a murderer, since I live. It was the Marchese Loria who arranged everything even my name, and credentials, and proofs of my identity as Manuela de Mattos, in case they were ever needed. Oh, there was nothing neglected.
You wish, then, that I should seek Morton Devereux; you wish that I should summon him hither; you wish to see and to confer with him?" "God of mercy forbid!" cried the Hermit, and with such a vehemence that I was startled from the design of revealing myself, which I was on the point of executing.
I heard, however, from Bolingbroke, who seemed to possess some of that information which the ecclesiastical intriguants of the day so curiously transmitted from court to court and corner to corner, that Gerald had retired to Devereux Court in great disgust at his confinement.
There was an absolute silence of some seconds after this scandalous explosion; and Devereux said 'In truth, Sir, I don't know. They hold him capable of taking charge of my wise cousin hang him! so I dare say he can take care of himself; and I don't see what the plague ill's to happen him. The doctor's honest eyes opened, and his face flushed a little.
He broke the engagement because . . ." Freddie stopped short. He didn't want everybody to know of that rotten arrest business, as they infallibly would if he confided in Ronny Devereux. Sort of thing he would never hear the last of. "He broke it off because of something quite different." "Oh, yes!" said Ronny skeptically. "But he did, really!" Ronny shook his head. "Don't you believe it, old son.
They had never had any young companions as young ladies were scarce among their acquaintance, and they had not seen their cousin, Lady Florence Devereux, since they were children. It was with great satisfaction that Emily and Lilias set out with their father to make the first visit, and they augured well from their first sight of Mrs. Weston and her daughters. Mrs.
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