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"The kneeling gentleman," said Lady Annaly, "whom you thought at the height of joy and glory, was at that moment in the depths of despair. So ill do the passions see what is even before their eyes!"
Many times during the perusal of this extravagant tissue of falsehoods, Ormond laid down and resumed the paper, unable to refrain from exclamations of rage and contempt; sometimes almost laughing at the absurdity of the slander. "After this," thought he, "who can mind common reports? and yet Dr. Cambray says that these excited some prejudice against me in the mind of Lady Annaly.
"Methodism, sir! don't contradict or repeat me methodism, that the woman has brought you to the brink of, and I warn you from it! I did not know till now that your Lady Annaly was such a methodist no methodist shall ever darken my doors, or lighten them either, with their new lights. New lights! new nonsense! for man, woman, or beast. But enough of this, and too much, Harry.
Cambray advised that he should remain quietly where he was, and wait till Miss Annaly should be disposed to see him. This was most prudent, Ormond allowed. "But then the delay!"
The music drowned the noise of the opening door, and of the two chairs, which Ormond had thrown down: those who sat near, thought a servant had pushed in and gone out; but, however rapid the movement, the full view of the figure had been seen by Miss Annaly, who was sitting on the opposite side of the room; Sir Ulick was sitting beside her, talking earnestly. Lady Annaly had just retired.
Cambray's letters of introduction or my own, five or six thousand a- year are, I have generally observed, a tolerably good passport into society, a sufficient passe-partout." "Passe-partout! not partout not quite sufficient at Annaly, you cannot mean, sir " "Oh!
Lady Annaly thought of you, Harry, my boy you must be a prodigious favourite in the midst of all her affliction, and the hurry of this sudden departure, this morning: she gave me a letter for you, which I determined to deliver with my own hands."
"Stay here, ladies, and I will bring you intelligence as soon as possible." "This way, Sir Ulick they are coming," said Miss Annaly, who had now recovered her presence of mind. Several persons appeared from a turn in the shrubbery, carrying some one on a hand-barrow a gentleman on horseback, with a servant and many persons walking.
When all the other servants had left the room, the man said, "I am the groom, sir, that was sent, just before you went to France, with a letter to Annaly: there was an answer to that letter, sir, though you never got it." "There was an answer!" cried Ormond, anger flashing, but an instant afterwards joy sparkling in his eyes. "There was a letter! From whom?
When Ormond had read, or without reading had taken in, by one glance of the eye, the sense of the letters he rang the bell instantly. "Inquire at the post-office," said he to his servant, "whether Lady Annaly is in England or Ireland? If in England, where? if in Ireland, whether at Annaly or at Herbert's Town? Quick an answer."
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