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It is impossible to discover how such things get wind, but there was already an idea prevalent at Custins that Lord Popplecourt had matrimonial views, and that these views were looked upon favourably. "You may be quite sure of it, Mr. Lupton," Lady Adelaide FitzHoward had said. "I'll make a bet they're married before this time next year."
His present opponent was not horrible to him as had been John Crumb, as men in clubs do not now often knock each others' heads or draw swords one upon another. 'Don't let's have a quarrel here, said Mr Lupton. 'I shall leave the room if you do. 'If we must break up, let us break up in peace and quietness, said Nidderdale.
'No horrid nonsense about closing, said Grasslough, 'and no infernal old fogies wearing out the carpets and paying for nothing. 'Not a vestige of propriety, or any beastly rules to be kept! That's what I liked, said Nidderdale. 'It's an old story, said Mr Lupton, 'that if you put a man into Paradise he'll make it too hot to hold him. That's what you've done here.
If he could be the winner of a Derby and Leger he thought that Glasslough and Lupton would snub him no longer, that even Tregear would speak to him, and that his pal the Duke's son would never throw him aside again. Lord Silverbridge had bought a drag with all its appendages. There was a coach, the four bay horses, the harness, and the two regulation grooms.
Nidderdale was confused and unhappy; but there was probably not a man in the House who did not understand the whole thing. He rushed down through the gangway and out through the doors with a hurried step, and as he escaped into the lobby he met Lionel Lupton, who, since his little conversation with Mr Beauclerk, had heard further news. 'You know what has happened, Nidderdale?
Seaton had just embarked upon an account of 'our charming time with Lord Fleckwood. Now Lord Fleckwood was a distant cousin of Archdeacon Seaton, and the great magnate of the neighborhood not, however, a very respectable magnate. Mr. Thornburgh had heard accounts of Lupton Castle from Mrs. Seaton on at least half a dozen different occasions.
Lupton at the Carlton, "that the present Ministry is out to-morrow, and another that no one names five members of the next Cabinet." "You can help to win your first bet," said Mr. Beauchamp, a very old member, who, like many other Conservatives, had supported the Coalition. "I shall not do that," said Lupton, "though I think I ought.
Any man with an uneasy conscience must have grasped from the very first that the plot had been guessed at, and that this awkward little skipper, with his oppressive civilities, was merely waiting his chance to act as Nemesis. But either Mr. Cranze had an easy mind, and Lupton had unjustly maligned him, or he was a fellow of the most brazen assurance.
Therefore he dined at the club, and though he would keep his hansom and go down to the House again in the course of the evening, he spent many long hours at the Beargarden. "There'll very soon be an end of this as far as you are concerned," said Mr. Lupton to him one evening as they were sitting in the smoking-room after dinner. "The sooner the better as far as this place is concerned."
"Some one she's met abroad?" "The wonderful part of the book," Mrs. Ballinger conceded, "is that it may be looked at from so many points of view. I hear that as a study of determinism Professor Lupton ranks it with 'The Data of Ethics." "I'm told that Osric Dane spent ten years in preparatory studies before beginning to write it," said Mrs. Plinth. "She looks up everything verifies everything.
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