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"Devereux," said Tarleton, yawning, "what a d d delightful thing it is to hear so much wit: pity that the atmosphere is so fine that no lungs unaccustomed to it can endure it long, Let us recover ourselves by a walk." "Willingly," said I; and we sauntered forth into the streets.
'May the needle of distress be ever pointed at all mock patriots; and a hot needle and a burning thread to all sewers of sedition! and then came an applauding roar. 'And may you ride into town on your own goose, with a hot needle behind you, you roaring pigmy! added Devereux.
Could such horror possibly be? In imagination the dead lived again, the past returned, and through my closed lids I saw Devereux her "slave and master" lean to gloat upon her defenceless beauty, bold-eyed and on his cruel lips the smile of a satyr.... And bowing my sweating temples between quivering fists, I ground my teeth in agony.
"Ha! ha! you have a great turn for morality, my good Chatran!" cried the Duke, "and would draw a rule for conduct out of the wickedest bon mot of Dubois. Monsieur, pardon me, but I have seen you before: you are the Count " "Devereux, Monseigneur." "True, true! I have heard much of you: you are intimate with Milord Bolingbroke. Would that I had fifty friends like him."
But now go and select from out the regiment Twenty or thirty able-bodied fellows, And let them take the oaths to the emperor. Then when it strikes eleven, when the first rounds Are passed, conduct them silently as may be To the house. I will myself be not far off. DEVEREUX. But how do we get through Hartschier and Gordon, That stand on guard there in the inner chamber?
She had little time for thinking on the matter, for Mrs Hamilton said: "Mr Ellis has already come. Mr Williams will be here any moment. We'd better go down." Mavis followed Mrs Hamilton to the drawing-room, where a man rose at their entrance, to whom Mavis was introduced as Miss Devereux.
"You haven't heard, of course?" he jerked out breathlessly. "Beastly bad news! Those hill tribes always up to some devilry! Poor old Phil infernal luck!" "What?" exclaimed Audrey. "What has happened to him? Tell me, quick, quick!" She turned as white as paper, and Devereux cursed himself for a clumsy fool. "It may not be the worst," he gasped back. "Dash it! I'm so winded!
I easily brought him off that scrape, and I am now going to give him a caution for the future. Poor gentleman, I hear that he is grievously distressed in pecuniary matters, and I always had a kindness for exiles. Who knows but that a state of exile may be our own fate! and this alien is sprung from a race as haughty as that of St. John or of Devereux. The res angusta domi must gall him sorely!"
In fact, Sir William Devereux was deeply impregnated with the notion of his time, that ability and inspiration were the same thing, and that, unless you were thoroughly idle, you could not be thoroughly a genius. I verily believe that he thought wisdom got its gems, as Abu Zeid al Hassan* declares some Chinese philosophers thought oysters got their pearls, namely, by gaping!
Prince Devereux was the first, Lord David Dirry-Moir the second. It is sometimes more difficult to be second than first. It requires less genius, but more courage. The first, intoxicated by the novelty, may ignore the danger; the second sees the abyss, and rushes into it. Lord David flung himself into the abyss of no longer wearing a wig. Later on these lords found imitators.
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