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What in Wemyss tended to call forth a good deal of respect was that he seldom mixed with the other captains, but condescended to take only a single glass with a select few. I noticed that he preferred the company of Bailie Duke, or of Lloyd's agent, and other magnates of the town.
He had seen my young friend a hundred times before, and had not been struck by her beauty nor yet touched by her poverty, but on this particular day he assured us that he had for a long time predicted Marie Lloyd's triumph. He then came to me, put his two hands on my shoulders, and held me facing him. "Well, you were a failure," he said. "Why persist now in going on the stage?
Fanny and Andrew and Eva had agreed to say nothing before the child about the shutting-up of Lloyd's, and their troubles in consequence. "She heard too much last night," Andrew said; "there's no use in her botherin' her little head with it. I guess that baby won't suffer."
Sometimes this is done, simply because it is alleged that the slave has been saucy. But here I leave this phase of the society of my early childhood, and will relieve the kind reader of these heart-sickening details. I have nothing cruel or shocking to relate of my own personal experience, while I remained on Col. Lloyd's plantation, at the home of my old master.
Lloyd's' method differs from that of ordinary insurance in being conducted by 'underwriters, each one of whom can write his name under any given risk for any reasonable part of the whole. Thus, instead of insuring a million with a company or a single man, the owner lays his case before Lloyd's, whereupon any members who choose to do so can sign for whatever proportion they intend to assume.
As the two men reached the edge of the wood and stood debating a moment, they were disturbed by the distant sound of hoof beats. "Get over on that side of the road," whispered Lloyd, "and keep out of sight behind that tree; leave your horse here." Symonds did as he was told none too soon. Around the bend of the road came a horseman. Quickly Lloyd's challenge rang out: "Halt, or I fire!"
"But I never did that! Lloyd's wife was dead; Of course, if she had been alive" Helena lifted her head with the curious pride of caste in sin which is so strongly felt by the woman who is a sinner; "if she had been alive, I wouldn't have thought of such a thing. But nobody knew, so I never did any harm," then she quailed; "at least, I never meant to do any harm.
Mme G had, then, a favourable answer to give to her young friend, who soon became the husband of the interesting artist whose generous sacrifice had been the foundation of her happiness. On this subject an interesting return to an order of the House of Commons was lately made by the management of Lloyd's, and has caused some discussion in the public prints.
Two pictures of Lloyd's as it was in the first decade of the eighteenth century are to, be found in the gallery of English literature, one from the pen of Steele, the other from that of Addison.
Lloyd's preaching, and influenced by our regard for him personally, that we have taken sittings in the Park Church. Helen, I am glad to say, is beginning to take an interest in the church and its work, and as time goes on I think her interest will grow. I should be glad indeed that it should be so, for our relations with Mr.
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