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Updated: May 24, 2025
"Only whim, I fear; and you?" as Percival linked his arm into Ardworth's. "Twenty years hence I will tell you what brought me hither!" answered Ardworth, moving slowly back towards Whitehall. "If we are alive then!" "We live till our destinies below are fulfilled; till our uses have passed from us in this sphere, and rise to benefit another.
The letter-bag contained three letters for himself, two with the foreign postmark, the third in Ardworth's hand. It contained also a letter for Madame Dalibard, and two for Varney.
You are really intimate with young Ardworth, eh?" "Intimate! poor fellow, he will not let any one be that; he works too hard to be social. But I love him sincerely, and I admire him beyond measure." "The dog has industry, then; that's good. And does he make debts, like that rascal, Ardworth senior?" "Really, sir, I must say this tone with respect to Mr. Ardworth's father- " "What the devil, sir!
And every time he entered, he found Lucretia sitting with Walter Ardworth's open letter in her hand, and turning with a preternatural excitement that seemed almost like aberration of mind, from the grim and horrid topic which he invited, to thoughts of wealth and power and triumph and exulting prophecies of the fame her son should achieve.
Innocent enough, for the most part, the debauch was, consisting in cracking jests, stringing puns, a fish dinner, perhaps, and an extra bottle or two of fiery port. Sometimes this jollity, which was always loud and uproarious, found its scene in one of the cider-cellars or midnight taverns; but Ardworth's labours on the Press made that latter dissipation extremely rare.
Certainly, to a mind of less strength there would have been something very unsettling in those vague hints of a station higher than he owned, of a future at variance with the toilsome lot he had drawn from the urn; but after a single glance over his lone position in all its bearings and probable expectations, Ardworth's steady sense shook off the slight disturbance such misty vaticinations had effected.
You will therefore find out, first, whether Braddell did consign his child to Ardworth, and, if so, you must then follow Ardworth, with that child in his keeping, to Matthew Fielden's house, whose address you find noted in the paper I gave you, together with many other memoranda as to Ardworth's creditors and those whom he is likely to have come across." "John Ardworth, I see!"
Young Ardworth stopped from the lecture, and sighed heavily. There seemed to him in this letter worse than a mock gayety, a certain levity and recklessness which jarred on his own high principles. And the want of affection for the child thus abandoned was evident, not one fond word. He resumed the statement with a gloomy and disheartened attention. Ardworth's second letter was as follows:
Certainly, to a mind of less strength there would have been something very unsettling in those vague hints of a station higher than he owned, of a future at variance with the toilsome lot he had drawn from the urn; but after a single glance over his lone position in all its bearings and probable expectations, Ardworth's steady sense shook off the slight disturbance such misty vaticinations had effected.
The letter-bag contained three letters for himself, two with the foreign postmark, the third in Ardworth's hand. It contained also a letter for Madame Dalibard, and two for Varney.
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