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It made her laugh; it appeared to be all so senseless that grown people should occupy themselves with such matters. It struck her, nevertheless, as odd that one of the counsel should cross-question Mr Brand so insistently and so impertinently as to his feelings for Miss Lupton. Nancy knew Miss Lupton of Ringwood very well a jolly girl, who rode a horse with two white fetlocks.
It was not only that he had succeeded in breaking up the Ministry, and that he had done this without incurring violent disgrace; but he had so done it as to throw all the reproach upon his late unfortunate colleague. It was thus that Mr. Lupton explained it.
A steward brought in tea, and it stood on the chart-table untasted, and at last Kettle finished, and Lupton put a question. "It's easy to tell," he said, "if they did swap names. What was the man that went overboard like?" "Little dark fellow, short sighted. He was a poet, too." "That's not Hamilton, anyway, but it might be Cranze. Is your prisoner tall?" "Tall and puffy.
In the Bahr-el-Ghazal, the last embers of resistance were stamped out with the capture of Lupton Bey, and through the whole of that vast province three times the size of England every trace of the Egyptian Government was obliterated.
The Duchess was Lord Alfred's sister, and of course she was going. 'I usually keep engagements when I make them, Mr Lupton, said the Duchess. She had been assured by Lord Alfred not a quarter of an hour before that everything was as straight as a die. Lord Alfred had not then even heard of the rumour. But ultimately both Lionel Lupton and Beauchamp Beauclerk attended the dinner.
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 neighbourhood, 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.
Bridgwater was settling down to peace again to peace and mourning; the Royalist scourge had spread to Taunton, and Blake lingered on at Lupton House, an unwelcome but an undeniable guest. His presence was as detestable to Richard now as it was to Ruth, for Richard had to submit to the mockery with which the town rake lashed his godly bearing and altered ways.
But I'll tell you what, Lupton. I don't quite understand it all yet. Our lawyer said three days ago that the money was certainly there. 'And Cohenlupe was certainly here three days ago, said Lupton, 'but he isn't here now. It seems to me that it has just happened in time for you. Lord Nidderdale shook his head and tried to look very grave.
The workings of his conscience did indeed take on surprising shapes. Of the three ex-governors of Darfur, Bahr-el-Ghazal, and Equatoria, Emin Pasha had disappeared, Lupton Bey had died, and Slatin Pasha was held in captivity by the Mahdi.
He was at Lupton House, the guest of his friend Richard Westmacott, and the open suitor of Ruth, entirely ignoring the circumstance that she was nominally the wife of Mr. Wilding this to the infinite chagrin of Miss Horton, who saw all her scheming likely to go for nothing.
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