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Trevelyan had been so wasted by the kind of life which he had led, and possessed by nature stamina so insufficient to resist such debility, that it was very doubtful whether he would not sink altogether before he could be made to begin to rise. But one thing was clear. He should be contradicted in nothing.
"You really would be tempted to become a match-maker?" "Yes," replied the other, "if by any means I could further the present scheme." "Lady Rosamond is indeed amiable and loveable, and worthy of a true and noble husband, while Lieutenant Trevelyan is in every sense a gentleman worthy the fairest and best.
"I do not regard that as possible." "I don't mean living there," said Trevelyan, "but coming backwards and forwards; going on in habits of intimacy with, with ?" His voice trembled so as he asked these questions, that he could not pronounce the word which was to complete them. "With Mrs. Trevelyan, you mean." "Yes; with my wife. I don't say that it is so; but it may be so.
Sir Marmaduke had understood this, and on hearing the word had become wroth with his brother-in-law. There had been hot words between them, and Mr. Outhouse would not yield an inch or retract a syllable. He conceived it to be his duty to advise the father to caution his daughter with severity, to quarrel absolutely with Colonel Osborne, and to let Trevelyan know that this had been done.
He was so bright and clever; it would have been unmanly not to have loved dead Miles' son. Of Coralie Trevelyan I asked but one favor; that she would allow me one week in which to make some arrangement for Clare before she brought the young heir home. She cheerfully agreed to this. "You bear your reverses very bravely," she said.
But Trevelyan was ready, having dressed himself up with a laced shirt, and changed his dressing-gown for a blue frock-coat, and his brocaded cap for a Paris hat, very pointed before and behind, and closely turned up at the sides. But Stanbury did not in the least care for his friend's dress. "Take my arm," he said, "and we will go down, fair and easy. Emily would not come up because of the heat."
Yet no tinge of sourness, or jealousy, or cynical disbelief in his more successful contemporaries ever marred the geniality of his political conversation. Thirty years ago, in the struggle for the Reform Bill of 1866, his character and position were happily hit off by Sir George Trevelyan in a description of a walk down Piccadilly:
Trevelyan, "if I could begin life again, I do not think that any temptation would induce me to place myself in a man's power." Sir Marmaduke was told of all this on his return home, and he asked many questions as to the nature of Stanbury's work.
Nora Rowley was with them in London, and by this time Mr. Trevelyan had begun to think that he should like to have his own way completely. His baby was very nice, and his wife was clever, pretty, and attractive. Nora was all that an unmarried sister should be. But, but there had come to be trouble and bitter words.
Trevelyan was quite aware that she had been so called by him in the presence of her husband, and that her husband had not objected. But that was now some months ago, before baby was born; and she was aware also that he had not called her so latterly in presence of her husband.
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