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"You are right," said the baronet, colouring a little; "and do you know, Mr Egremont, you are the only individual I have yet met out of the Order, who has taken a sensible view of this great question, which, after all, is the question of the day." The situation of the rural town of Marney was one of the most delightful easily to be imagined.
In vain I said that you looked upon her as the most odious of her sex, and her balls the pest of society. She was not in the least satisfied. And how is Gerard? 'Why, we really have been very uneasy about him, said Lady Marney, 'but the last bulletin, she added, with a smile, 'announces a tooth.
There is nothing under those circumstances like the advice of a cool-headed friend." "As valuable as the assistance of a cold-hearted one," thought Egremont, who did not fancy too much the tone of this conversation. "But there is one thing of which you must particularly beware," continued Lord Marney, "there is one thing worse even than getting into difficulties patching them up.
"These men would have been turned out again, had he only lived three months more." "Lived!" exclaimed Egremont. "Yes," said Lady Marney; "the king is dying." Slowly delivering himself of an ejaculation, Egremont leant back in his chair. "He may live a month," said Lady Marnev; "he cannot live two.
During the previous period however many important events had occurred. Lord Marney had placed himself in communication with Mr Hatton, who had soon become acquainted with all that had occurred in the muniment room of Mowbray Castle. The result was not what he had once anticipated; but for him it was not without some compensatory circumstances.
"At a Petty Sessions holden at the Green Dragon Inn, Marney, Friday, October , 1837. "Magistrates present: The Earl of Marney, the Rev. Felix Flimsey, and Captain Grouse. "Information against Robert Hind for a trespass in pursuit of game in Blackrock Wood, the property of Sir Vavasour Firebrace, Bart. The case was distinctly proved; several wires being found in the pocket of the defendant.
Lord Marney looked at Egremont pugnaciously, and then observed, "Grouse is a capital fellow; one is never dull when Grouse is here." "Well, for my part," said Egremont, "I do not much admire that amusement which is dependent on the efforts of hangers-on." "Grouse is no more a hanger-on than any one else," said Lord Marney, rather fiercely.
Egremont had not departed more than two hours when the horsemen whom Sybil had met arrived at Lord Marney's headquarters, bringing a most alarming and exaggerated report of the insurrection and of the havoc that was probably impending. Lord Marney being of opinion that Egremont's forces were by no means equal to the occasion resolved therefore at once to set out for Mowbray with his own troop.
Then all the town was placarded with 'Vote for McDruggy and our young Queen, as if he had coalesced with her Majesty." "My mother must have been in despair," said Lord Marney. "We issued our placard instantly of 'Vote for our young Queen and Egremont, which was at least more modest, and turned out more popular." "That I am sure was my mother," said Lord Marney.
These three distinguished noblemen were all of them anxious a little fidgetty; but at the same time it was not even whispered that Lord Rambrooke or any other lord had received the post which Lord Marney had appropriated to himself; nor had Lord Killcroppy had a suspicious interview with the prime minister, which kept the Duke of Fitz-Aquitaine quiet though not easy; while not a shadow of coming events had glanced over the vacant stall of Lord Ribbonville in St George's Chapel, and this made Lord de Mowbray tranquil, though scarcely content.
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