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Pen and ink lay ready, and, without troubling to remove her glove, Lady Ingleby wrote beneath, in large, somewhat sprawling, handwriting: Mrs. O'Mara ..... The Lodge, Shenstone. A maid appeared, took her cloak and bag, and preceded her up the stairs. As she reached the turn of the staircase, Lady Ingleby paused, and looked back into the hall.
Spencer, as the boat, which the young man rowed, bounded over the water towards their quiet home; "Charles, I dislike these Beauforts!" "Not the daughter?" "No, she is beautiful, and seems good; not so handsome as your poor mother, but who ever was?" here Mr. Spencer sighed, and repeated some lines from Shenstone. "Do you think Mr. Beaufort suspects in the least who I am?"
Had you not arrived, my Lord, I should, when we had finished our supper, have told Master Shenstone that I knew of this vast service he has rendered us a service to which the other was as nothing. That touched my pocket only; this my only child's happiness.
But I am pressed for time. Here is my card. Call on me this evening at six, and we will talk further on the matter." Shaking hands with the minister he hurried away. "Come as far as my lodgings," Mr. Wallace said to Cyril, "and stay with me while I eat my meal. 'Tis a diversion to one's mind to turn for a moment from the one topic that all men are speaking of. "Your name is Shenstone.
"Then the name 'Shenstone' interested me, because I know the Inglebys at least, I knew Lord Ingleby, well; and I shall soon know Lady Ingleby. In fact I have written to-day asking for an interview. I must see her on business connected with notes of her husband's which, if she gives permission, are to be embodied in my book. I suppose if you live near Shenstone Park you know the Inglebys?"
Party excursion is held in considerable esteem, in which are included Enville, the seat of Lord Stamford; Hagley, that of the late Lord Lyttelton; and the Leasowes, the property of the late Wm. Shenstone, Esq. We will omit the journey to London, a tour which some of us have made all our lives without seeing it. Cards and the visit are linked together, nor is the billiard table totally forsaken.
For, if the Earl of Airth and Monteith might write himself down "Jim Airth" in the Moorhead Inn visitors' book, and be blameless, why might not Lady Ingleby of Shenstone take an equally simple name, without committing an unpardonable offence? Myra pondered, wept, and reasoned round in a circle, growing more and more bewildered and perplexed.
"She's been on a farm too somewhere near Brighton, Muster Shenstone says, since she was at college; and ee told me she do seem to be terr'ble full o' new notions." "She'd better be full o' money," said the other, cuttingly. "Notions is no good without money to 'em." "Aye, they're wunnerfull costly things is notions. Yo'd better by a long way go by the folk as know.
Still I know very well the novelty of my character has by far the greatest share in the learned and polite notice I have lately had; and in a language where Pope and Churchill have raised the laugh, and Shenstone and Gray drawn the tear; where Thomson and Beattie have painted the landscape, and Lyttelton and Collins described the heart, I am not vain enough to hope for distinguished poetic fame.
"Shenstone Junction!" shouted a porter and Jim Airth was across the platform before the train had stopped. The tandem ponies waited outside the station, and this time Jim Airth gathered up the reins with a gay smile, flicking the leader, lightly. Before, he had said: "I never drive other people's ponies," in response to "Her ladyship's" message; but now "All that's mine, is thine, laddie."
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