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"That is well! that is well!" said Lumley, rubbing his hands when he was left alone: "the old driveller will be my locum tenens, till years and renown enable me to become his successor. Meanwhile, I shall be really what he will be in name."
But the title of the new peer! if he could unite wealth and title, and set the coronet on that young brow! This had led him to seek the alliance with Lumley.
Lumley seated himself with a formal gravity very unusual to him, and as if anxious to waive unnecessary explanations, began as follows, with a serious and impressive voice and aspect: "Maltravers, of late years we have been estranged from each other. I do not presume to dictate to you your friendships or your dislikes. Why this estrangement has happened you alone can determine.
Alfred introduced Captain Lumley to his father and mother; and in the course of half an hour, being mutually pleased with each other, an intimacy was formed, when Captain Lumley observed, "I presume that, much as you may require your son's assistance on your arrival at Canada, you can dispense with his presence on board of this vessel.
Nay, even the selfish good spirits and dry shrewdness of Lumley Ferrers would have been an acceptable change to the dull polish and unrevealed egotism of jealous wits and party politicians. "If these are the flowers of the parterre, what must be the weeds?" said Maltravers to himself, returning from a party at which he had met half a score of the most orthodox lions.
"Ha, ha; your despair sharpens your wit, Lumley; but why not take a leaf out of your uncle's book, and marry yourself?" "So I will when I can find an heiress. If that is what you meant to say it is a more sensible suggestion than any I could have supposed to come from a man who writes books, especially poetry: and your advice is not to be despised. "Meanwhile, Ferrers, you will be my guest."
If Lumley and his fellows went straight on after they started the fires, and Goodness knows they wouldn't hang around here, they could reach the railroad in six or eight hours. That means they would be there by this time. There is a train that reaches Pleasantville about eleven o'clock. They would have time to make it.
"It seems to me a piece of good luck that he has got here at all," said Lumley, after we had finished the analysis. "Why so?" asked Spooner. "Because there are some unmistakable symptoms that winter is about over, and that snow-shoe and dog-sleigh travelling will soon be impossible."
Alfred was not on deck fever had compelled him to remain in his hammock but Captain Lumley made the same reply on the log-board of the Portsmouth, and Mr and Mrs Campbell were satisfied. "How I should like to see him," said Mrs Campbell.
"And I come back," continued Lumley, "to find you a confirmed beauty and a professional coquette don't blush!" "Do they, indeed, call me a coquette?" "Oh, yes, for once the world is just." "Perhaps I do deserve the reproach. Oh, Lumley, how I despise all that I see and hear!" "What, even the Duke of ?" "Yes, I fear even the Duke of is no exception!" "Your father will go mad if he hear you."
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