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Rollstone, if you please. 'Excuse me, Mrs. Grover. This is a grouse from Lord Northmoor's own moors, I presume, replied Mr. Rollstone, to the tune of a peal of laughter from Herbert and exclamation 'Not know a grouse! for which Ida frowned at him. 'Yes, indeed, said his mother; 'we had so much game up at my brother's, Lord Northmoor's, that I shall quite miss it now I am come away.
Those with whom they prospered best were a good-natured, merry old dowager duchess, with whom they felt themselves in the altitude to which they were accustomed at Hurminster; a loud-voiced, eager old squire, who was bent on being Lord Northmoor's guide and prompter in county business; also an eager, gushing lady, the echoes of whose communications made Frank remark, after her departure, 'We must beware of encouraging gossip about the former family.
There was a second instalment of the price which had to be paid to a Quebec bank. This was all that could be learnt; but it confirmed Lord Northmoor's impression that it would be right to see him, and as far as explanation could go, to repair the injustice which had stung him so deeply.
Perhaps the irritability of illness had some effect upon the ordinary gentleness of Lord Northmoor's temper, and besides, he was exceedingly annoyed at such ungrateful slaughter of what was known to be a favourite of his wife; so when he came upon Herbert, sauntering down to the stables, he accosted him sharply with, 'What is this I hear, Herbert?
Miss Look at this impudent fellow, though I told him I was Lord Northmoor's own nephew. 'And I told him, ma'am, said the keeper, touching his hat, 'that if he was ten nephews I wouldn't have him throwing stones at my pheasants, nor his Lordship wouldn't neither, and then he sauced me, and I said I would see what his Lordship said to that.
Rollstone gravely; 'but as the Honourable Arthur was born in 1848, and the Honourable Michael in 1850, we may infer that the young lady is no longer in her first youth. 'And not married? Nearly Fr Lord Northmoor's age. She must be an old cat who will set her mind on marrying him, sighed Mrs. Morton, 'and will make him cut all his own relations.
The Captain was greatly puzzled to hear it was Lord Northmoor's son I was looking for. He is not up in the peerage like your father, you see, and I had to make him understand. He thought Lord N. must be either the old man, or Lady Adela's little boy. He said some of his happiest days had been at Northmoor, and he asked after Lady Adela, and if Miss Morton was married.
But one must be used to high society to know how such things should be relished! 'Are Lord Northmoor's moors extensive? asked Mr. Rollstone. 'There's about four or five miles of them, responded Herbert; 'and these grouse are awfully shy. 'Ah, the Earl of Blackwing owns full twenty miles of heather, said the ex-butler.
Poor thing, she was the youthful widow of a guide, and the efforts of the two Frauen had been in vain to keep alive her only child, after whose death she had found some consolation in taking charge of Lady Northmoor's baby on the way home. Constance hoped Ida might never hear this fact. Some degree of prosperity was greeting the little heir.
Rollstone had contrived to make room for them, and they would show her, better than he could, some of the plans he wished to have carried out with the little children. So he wished to introduce her to his sisters! What did that mean? If the Deyncourts were ever so high they could not sneer at Lord Northmoor's sisters.
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