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Camden, Eldon, Westmorland, and Chatham resumed the offices they had held before the death of Pitt, Mulgrave became first lord of the admiralty, and Earl Bathurst president of the board of trade.
Parr, too ?" Hodder began. "Oh, it was to shield Eldon Parr. They could never be traced to him. And if they ever came out, it would kill my husband. Tell me," she implored, "what can I do? What shall I do? You are responsible. You have made me more bitterly unhappy than ever."
Alison Parr was talking to the woman in the flat, and both were changed, and yet he identified both: and on another occasion he saw a familiar figure surrounded by romping, ragged children a figure which turned out to be Eldon Parr's! Finally he was aroused by what seemed a summons from the unknown the prolonged morning whistle of the shoe factory.
With a look of appeal from her blue eyes that arrested the sharp rejoinder from the lips of the man she loved, the girl turned away, her face suddenly paling from fear. "Here comes the pirate chief with his captive," exclaimed a laughing girl. "Hush, Cornelia; he may hear you horrid man! He wouldn't be here if he wasn't so rich." "Why, where is Eldon Brand?" said another.
A man of the world brought face to face with startling revelations of this kind naturally turns at once to thought of technicalities, evasions, compromises. Adela's simpler mind fixed itself upon the plain sense of the will; that meant restitution to the uttermost farthing. For more than two years Hubert Eldon had been kept out of his possessions; others had been using them, and lavishly.
For an instant Eldon Parr, as he stared at the clergyman, tightened his lips, lips that seemed peculiarly formed for compression. Then they relaxed into what resembled a smile. If it were one, the other returned it. "Seriously," Mr. Parr declared, "it does me good in these days to hear, from a young man, such sound doctrine as you preach.
You couldn't have got me to believe that Eldon Parr would put his name to anything that wasn't straight. "Then Consolidated Tractions came along, with Parr's, name behind it. Everybody was talking about it, and how it was payin' eight per cent. from the start, and extra dividends and all, and what a marvel of finance it was.
Carey, the present favourite mistress of the Duke of York; and that two of the members of the cabinet, the Lord Chancellor Eldon, and the Duke of Portland, were implicated in such negociations. This motion created in the public mind such a sensation as an earthquake would have created; and the country rung with it from one end of the land to the other, from north to south, and from east to west.
Of course such a thing would never have suggested itself to the Eldons. And in fact very little of the lands remained to them. Mr. Mutimer bought a great deal from other people. As Mr. Wyvern sat brooding, Mrs. Waltham asked 'You have seen Mrs. Eldon? 'Not yet. She is too unwell to receive visits. 'Yes, poor thing, she is a great invalid.
CROKER. 'I was exceedingly shocked, said Lord Eldon, 'the first time I attended to hear the Recorder's report, at the careless manner in which, as it appeared to me, it was conducted.
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