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"I have few; your brother is the chief, but even he never did me any kindness so great as when he told me that you had spoken of me with sympathy." "Bertram's friends are mine," said Lady Corisande; "but, otherwise, it would be impossible for us all not to feel an interest in , one of whom we had seen so much," she added, with some hesitation. "Ah, Brentham!" said Lothair; "dear Brentham!
Your lordship will have to consider whether you can devote the two hundred thousand pounds of the second and extinct trust to a better purpose than in obtaining that estate." Lothair had always destined that particular sum for the cathedral, the raising of which was to have been the first achievement of his majority; but he did not reply. In a few days the guests began to arrive, but gradually.
The duchess seemed to beam with affectionate pleasure as Lothair fulfilled his duties as their host; the duke praised the claret, and he seldom praised any thing; while Lady Corisande only regretted that the impending twilight had prevented her from seeing the beautiful country, and expressed lively interest in the morrow's inspection of the castle and domain.
The counsellor he required was Miss Arundel. Lothair had quitted Vauxe one week, and it seemed to him a year. During the first four-and-twenty hours he felt like a child who had returned to school, and, the day after, like a man on a desert island. Various other forms of misery and misfortune were suggested by his succeeding experience.
"The view of Jerusalem never becomes familiar," said the Syrian, "for its associations are so transcendent, so various, so inexhaustible, that the mind can never anticipate its course of thought and feeling, when one sits, as we do now, on this immortal mount." "I presume you live here?" said Lothair. "Not exactly," said his companion.
Lothair had looked forward to this meeting with apprehension. It seemed impossible that it should not to a certain degree be annoying. Nothing of the kind. It was impossible to greet him more cordially, more affectionately than did Cardinal Grandison. "You have seen a great deal since we parted," said the cardinal. "Nothing could be wiser than your travelling.
He made his salute with grace and dignity to the consul, touching his forehead, his lip, and his heart, and took his seat with the air of one not unaccustomed to be received, playing, until he received his chibouque, with a chaplet of beads. "That is a good-looking fellow, Lothair," said St. Aldegonde; "or is it the dress that turns them out such swells?
'I delight in this hall, she said to Lothair; 'but how superior the pictured scene to the reality! 'What! would you like, then, to be in a battle? 'I should like to be with heroes, wherever they might be. What a fine character was the Black Prince! And they call those days the days of superstition! The silver horns sounded a brave flourish. Lothair had to advance and meet Lady Corisande.
On the contrary, although never authoritative, and, even when touching on her convictions, suggesting rather than dictating them, Lothair could not but feel that, during the happy period he had passed in her society, not only his taste had refined but his mind had considerably opened; his views had become larger, his sympathies had expanded; he considered with charity things and even persons from whom a year ago he would have recoiled with alarm or aversion.
"Well, I will speak to Colonel Campian about it," said Theodora, but with little animation. "We will both speak to him about it now," said Lothair, for the colonel at that moment entered the room and greeted Lothair, as was his custom, cordially. "We are settling the visit to Muriel," said Lothair; "I want to induce Mrs.
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