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Oh, Beverley, d'you mean he " "Killed him, Dick!" Once more the Viscount sank back among his pillows and stared up at the ceiling a while ere he spoke again "By the Lord, Bev," said he, at last, "the stable-boys might well call him 'The Terror'!" "Yes," said Barnabas, "he has earned his name, Dick." "And the man was dead, you say?"
Here, at the head of the table, with the Madame at his right hand, his guests around, and the liveried lackeys waiting his commands, Monsieur the Viscount forgot that anything had ever been made which could mar beauty and enjoyment; while the two priests outside stalked up and down under the falling twilight, and talked ugly talk of crime and poverty that were somewhere now, and of troubles to come hereafter.
It is nothing, of course, much less than nothing, compared with the Earl of Crowcombe's, or the estate of Viscount Gamberley; still, such as it is, it carries my ideas, and it has an extent of marine frontage such as they might envy. We are asked 5 pounds per foot for a thread of land fronting on a highway, open to every kind of annoyance, overlooked, without any thing to look at.
"No, no, not so," says the other; "and I call God to witness, Frank Esmond, that I would have asked your pardon, had you but given me a chance. In in the first cause of our falling out, I swear that no one was to blame but me, and and that my lady " "Hush!" says my poor Lord Viscount, lifting himself on his elbow and speaking faintly. "'Twas a dispute about the cards the cursed cards.
"Captain Ringgold, if you please, we will now exchange places," said the viscount. "Up to the present time we have been your guests; now I will become the host, and you and your party will be my guests. I beg you will raise no objections, my dear sir, and I shall feel very much wounded if you do not accept the hospitality I tender to you. You are at home on the sea as I am in Bombay."
She gave one quick, wistful glance at the viscount, and then addressed him in a hurried, anxious tone, speaking in the Italian language and saying: "Rouse yourself! Look not so like an assassin. You will bring suspicion!" "Hush!" answered the viscount, with a quick glance towards Claudia, which warned La Faustina that the American lady might be supposed to understand Italian.
"So be it," said he to himself; "this is my punishment." And immediately he gave the necessary orders for Viscount Albert to be brought before him. Albert scarcely noticed his removal from home to the seclusion of the prison. Snatched away from his painful thoughts by the harsh voice of the commissary, saying.
In fact, she had come to regard him as an accessory of Northwold, and was delighted to enjoy some exchange of sympathy upon Terrace subjects above all, when separated from the school-room party. Time had brought her to perceive that the fantastic Viscount did not always wear motley, and it was almost as refreshing as meeting with Clara, to have some change from the two worlds in which she lived.
He had read about her in a peerage at his sister's book-shop the previous day. Unfortunately it did not give her age, but that was not so important, after all. She was styled Honourable. She was the daughter of one Viscount and the sister of another. Her grandfather had been an Earl, and the book had shown her to possess a bewildering number of relationships among titled folks.
'At last, here you are! he cried in French. 'I thought I was to miss you altogether. The Scotsmen rose, and Ballantrae, after the first greetings, laid his hand on his companion's shoulder. 'My lord, said he, 'allow me to present to you one of my best friends and one of our best soldiers, the Lord Viscount Gladsmuir. The two bowed with the elaborate elegance of the period.
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