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Their feeling is not so much joy at the present as discontent with the past. 'Why was I not born to all this? cried Atlee indignantly. 'What is there in me, or in my nature, that this should be a usurpation? Why was I not schooled at Eton, and trained at Oxford? Why was I not bred up amongst the men whose competitor I shall soon find myself?
As, of course, it rests with him to be like-minded with me or not upon this matter to take, in fact, his own estimate of Mr. Atlee from his own experiences of him you are not to know anything whatever of this project till his Excellency thinks proper to open it to you. You understand that? 'Thoroughly.
That habit so popular of late years to send out some man from England to do something at a foreign Court that the British ambassador or Minister there either has not done, or cannot do, possibly ought never to do, had invested Atlee in Brammell's eyes with the character of one of those semi-accredited inscrutable people whose function it would seem to be to make us out the most meddlesome people in Europe.
This pang of jealousy was very bitter; but still it served to stimulate him and rouse him from a depression that was gaining fast upon him. It is true, he remembered she had spoken slightingly of Joe Atlee.
While Atlee knew Kearney in every fold and fibre of his nature, Kearney had not the very vaguest conception of him with whom he sat every day at meals, and communed through almost every hour of his life.
Atlee might have told his lordship but he did not by what agency it chanced that his journeys and his jests were so thoroughly known to the press of every capital in Europe.
There was something almost disdainful in the toss of her head as she heard these words, and she hastily retired from the balcony and entered the room. Atlee watched her, by no means certain what her gesture might portend. Was she indignant with him for the liberty he had taken? or was she about to comply with his request, and meet him?
'We shall have him in the House one of these days, he would say; 'and I am much mistaken if he will not make a remarkable figure there. When Lady Maude sailed proudly into the library before dinner, Atlee was actually stunned by amazement at her beauty.
'Hang him! cried Atlee; 'nothing of the kind. Mr. Gladstone would present him with a suit of clothes, a ten-pound note, and a first-class passage to America. He would make a "healing measure" of him. 'I must say, gentlemen, said Nina scornfully, 'you can discuss your friend's fate with a marvellous equanimity. 'So we do, rejoined Atlee. 'He is another Bohemian.
'I've been waiting till these people were gone, Dick till we had a quiet house of it to say a few words to you. I suppose your friend Atlee is not coming back here? 'I suppose not, sir. 'I don't like him, Dick; and I'm much mistaken if he is a good fellow. 'I don't think he is actually a bad fellow, sir.
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