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He was returned for the borough of Rutsford, and his fame as an able an eloquent orator spread over the country. Then he studied to become a model landlord; he built large, airy cottages and schools; he paid the attention that every landlord ought to pay that the land be well drained, well cultivated. He was a friend to all his tenants, a benefactor to his dependants.
Government offered him the title of Baron Rutsford of Rutsford, and he had declined it, saying that his ancestors had for years asked no higher title than that of Lord of the Manor, and he valued his name Carruthers of Ulverston too highly to ever exchange it for another.
It was full two hours' ride by rail from London, and all the way there the lawyer was worrying himself with conjectures, and trying to solve what he thought honestly the greatest mystery he had ever known. It was six o'clock on a bright May evening when he reached Ulverston. He ordered a fly, and drove at once to the Priory. More than half that busy town of Rutsford belonged to the Carruthers.
You cannot defend a bridge after the fashion of Horatius you cannot conquer worlds like Alexander. I fancy you will have to be content with being one of the best lords of the manor Rutsford has ever known." "You are sentimental, Basil," he said to him one morning, "but not practical. A man is nothing unless he is practical. Why not give up all these foolish notions of being a great hero?
They were lords of the manor, masters of the soil. To them belonged also the fertile lands, the profitable farms, the hop gardens, and broad meadows that stretched between Rutsford and the Priory. As the lawyer drove through this rich inheritance, his wonder increased. What could possess any man blessed with such a birthright to place himself in so false and degraded a position?
Youth Full of Beauty and Promise. There was no man of greater note in England than the late Royston Carruthers, Esq., Lord of the Manor of Rutsford. He was one of the ablest statesmen and finest orators in England. He had been returned for the Borough of Rutsford for many years, without opposition.
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