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'Mother, he said, hurriedly, 'I am still far from well. Let me leave you: speak to me again to-morrow. Mrs. Eldon made an effort to rise, looking anxiously into the gloom where he stood. She was all but standing upright a thing she had not done for a long time when Hubert sprang towards her, seizing her hands, then supporting her in his arms. Her self-command gave way at length, and she wept.
But the exact stage of disillusionment she had reached in regard to Eldon Parr was unknown to him, and he feared that a further revelation might possibly sever the already precarious tie between father and daughter. He recounted, therefore, that Mr. Bentley had failed; and how he had before that given much of his estate away in charity, how he had been unable to keep his pew in St.
That Eldon Parr would not lead the charge in person was a foregone conclusion. Whom, then, would he put forward? For obvious reasons, not Wallis Plimpton or Langmaid, nor Francis Ferguson. Hodder found his, glance unconsciously fixed upon Everett Constable, who, moved nervously and slowly pushed back his chair.
And there were the expenses of the parish house, an alarming sum now Eldon Parr had withdrawn: the salaries of the assistants. Hodder, who had saved a certain sum in past years, would take nothing for the present.... Asa Waring and Phil Goodrich borrowed on their own responsibility...
He produced a letter of the great Chancellor, Lord Eldon, which quoted instances in which various administrations had found difficulties in the way of introducing eminent lawyers into the House, because their want of adequate fortune to support the rank had disinclined them to encumber their descendants with an hereditary peerage.
"I beg pardon; sir, but I think Gratton has gone to bed. He had no orders." "Then wake him," said Eldon Parr, "instantly. And send for my secretary." With a glance which he perceived Alison comprehended, Hodder made his way out of the room. He had from Eldon Parr, as he passed him, neither question, acknowledgment, nor recognition.
Adela shook her head. The philosophical youth sank into his favourite attitude legs extended, hands in pockets, nose in air. 'So, I suppose, he said presently, 'that fellow really has been ill? Adela was sitting in thought; she looked up with a shadow of annoyance on her face. 'That fellow? 'Eldon, you know.
He had refused to see the reporter, but he had been made out a hero, a socialistic champion of the poor. The black headlines were nauseating; and beside them, in juxtaposition, were pen portraits of himself and of Eldon Parr. There were rumours that the banker had left the church until the recalcitrant rector should be driven out of it; the usual long list of Mr.
In this form, the regency bill was passed on February 4, 1811, after a protest from the other sons of George III. and violent attacks upon Eldon by Grenville and Grey.
"I understand," said Eldon Parr, "that you wish to marry my daughter." "It is true that I am to marry Alison," Holder answered, "and that I intended, later on, to come to inform you of the fact." He did not mention the death of Preston. Condolences, under the circumstances, were utterly out of the question. "How do you propose to support her?" the banker demanded.
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