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"Quarrelling!" exclaimed I, astounded at the bare notion. "Why, whatever puts that into your head?" "Oh," said he, with his usual smile, "only fancy. But I'm glad it isn't the case." "Of course it isn't," said I, warmly. "I haven't seen you talking to him so often lately; that's why," said Hawkesbury; "and it always seems a pity when good friends fall out."
"Are you doing anything particular on Monday?" he asked me, a day or two before the holiday. "No; I half thought of going home, but I can't afford that, so I may go to the British Museum." "Not a very cheerful place to spend a holiday," laughed Hawkesbury. "What do you say to coming a quiet drive with me?"
"Then you may be sure he'll come," said Wallop, "It was all very well when we weren't supposed to know," said Harris, "but now it's all out he doesn't expect us to treat him like an ordinary gentleman." "It's certainly not anything to be proud of," remarked Hawkesbury, pleasantly; "but "
And the question was put all round, every one assenting. At least so I thought. But Smith as usual was doubtful of Hawkesbury. "You agree, Hawkesbury?" said he. "Really," said the other, with a smile, "it isn't nice to be suspected, Smith. Isn't it enough to say a thing once?" "Oh yes, yes," cried out every one, impatiently, and most anxious to keep the meeting harmonious.
Lord Hawkesbury proposed that Russia be the guaranteeing Power. No proposal could have been more reasonable. The claims of the Czar to the protectorate of the Order had been so recently asserted by a treaty with the knights that no other conclusion seemed feasible.
Not that he was without kindly feeling; his generous treatment of the Hawkesbury farmers, who were ruined by a flood in 1806, showed him to have been warm-hearted in his way; he exerted himself to the utmost, both with time and money, to alleviate their distress, and received the special thanks of the English Government for his humanity.
Prospect-Hill is a small elevation, which commands a very extensive prospect of the country to the southward: a range of very high mountains bound the view to the westward: these mountains, which lie nearly north and south, are about forty miles from Prospect-Hill; and the intervening country is a thick forest: the northernmost of these mountains is called Richmond-Hill, at the foot of which the Hawkesbury takes its rise from a bed of fresh water coal.
In some places the cliffs that overhang the Hawkesbury are not less than 600 feet in height; and the picturesque scenery, the numerous vessels and boats upon the stream, which is here navigable for ships of more than 100 tons, the views of the fertile country in the neighbourhood, with its abundant crops of wheat and Indian corn, the boundary of the western horizon, formed by the Blue Mountains, the base of which is about twenty miles distant: all these natural beauties combine to render Windsor a very agreeable spot.
"And, if they see a little attenuated lawyer squabbling at the head of their opponents, let them desire him to empty his pockets, and to pull out all the pieces of duck, fowl, and pudding which he has filched from the public feasts, to carry home to his wife and children." Before ending his letter, Peter has a fling at the Home Secretary, Lord Hawkesbury, "the lesser of the two Jenkinsons."
The Port Hawkesbury steamboat from Shediac for that week had gone, to be sure, but we could take one of another line which would leave us at Pictou, whence we could take another across to Port Hood, on Cape Breton. This looked fair, until we showed the agent that there was no steamer to Port Hood. "Ah, then you can go another way.
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