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Hubert had made this call with a special purpose. 'I am charged by Mrs. Eldon, he began, 'to thank you for the courtesy you have shown her during my illness. My own thanks likewise I hope you will accept. We have caused you, I fear, much inconvenience. Richard found himself envying the form and tone of this deliverance; he gathered his beard in his hands and gave it a tug.
And in truth there were some who seemed scarcely to realize they were not in a public vehicle. An elaborately dressed female in front of them, whose expansive hat brushed her neighbours, made audible comments to a stout man with a red neck which was set in a crease above his low collar. "They tell me Eldon Parr's pew has a gold plate on it. I wish I knew which it was.
Langmaid looked down at the tip of his cigar. "Mr. Hodder," said Eldon Parr, "is to be congratulated." Hodder, when the service was over, had sought the familiar recess in the robing-room, the words which he himself had spoken still ringing in his ears.
Never, perhaps, had Eldon Parr given such complete proof of his lack of spiritual intuition. The atmosphere, charged with presage for him, gave him nothing. "Mr. Hodder takes a strange way of delivering it," was his comment. Mercy took precedence over her natural directness. She laid her hand gently on his arm.
Eldon Parr's pew was filled, Everett Constable's, Wallis Plimpton's; and the ushers who had hastily been mustered were awestricken and powerless. Such a resistless invasion by the hordes of the unknown might well have struck with terror some of those who hitherto had had the courage to standup loyally in the rector's support.
But it's deeper than that. Eldon Parr will give orders that Hodder's to go." "Give orders?" "Certainly. That vestry, so far as Mr. Parr is concerned, is a mere dummy board of directors. He's made Langmaid, and Plimpton, and even Everett Constable, who's the son of an honourable gentleman, and ought to know better. And he can ruin them by snapping his fingers.
The Bishops and Lord Eldon got into a theological discussion. The Chancellor made a strong attack upon Lord Eldon, who really spoke very childishly. We had as many women as ever, but a new set, and some of the prettiest girls in London Miss Bagot, Miss Sheridan, and others. At Windsor, last Sunday, the Duke of Cumberland spoke very warmly indeed to Aberdeen about the Duke of Wellington.
I warn you that I will not listen any longer to vague accusations." It was Holder's turn to marvel. Did Eldon Purr, after all; have no sense of guilt? Instantaneously, automatically, his own anger rose. "You may be sure, Mr. Parr, that I should not be here unless I were prepared to be specific.
Towards the close of his career Eldon made a still better jest than this of Jekyll's concerning tailors. In 1829, when Lyndhurst was occupying the woolsack for the first time, and Eldon was longing to recover the seals, the latter presented a petition from the Tailors' Company at Glasgow against Catholic Belief.
Even this last revelation, of Eldon Parr's agency in another tragedy, seemed to have no further power to affect him... Nor could Hodder think of Alison as in blood-relationship to the financier, or even to the boy, whose open, pleasure-loving face he had seen in the photograph. A presage of autumn was in the air, and a fine, misty rain drifted in at his windows as he sat at his breakfast.
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