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Then, at the general meeting, he could form some just estimate of the difficulties in his way, and in their way." "Reckage, though a mean fellow, might give you an opportunity to work a strong Sub-Committee," suggested Disraeli. "One cannot calculate on the course of a man so variable and impulsive. He proposes to get rid of Aumerle, and make concessions to his set.
"But you forget that Reckage is going to marry Miss Carillon," said Aumerle. "Miss Carillon will always advise the safe course." "That's all very well," said Bradwyn, "but there has been too much arrangement in that marriage! I can tell you how the engagement came about. She was intimate with his aunt. He acquired the habit of her society on all decorous occasions. Still, he never proposed.
While some of these allegations are true, the last certainly is false. One of those named as having joined in the last petition is Surrey; and his alleged participation is proved to be a lie. Knowing how lightly Henry of Bolingbroke could lie, it is hardly possible to believe otherwise of any member of the group, except indeed the time-serving Aumerle. See "Mistress Margery," preface, page six.
The extraordinary manner in which this man was always trusted afresh by the friends whom he perpetually betrayed, is one of the mysteries of psychological history. His plausibility and powers of fascination must have been marvellous. On the day appointed for the meeting at Kingston, Aumerle, attired in a handsome furred gown, went to dine with his father. The Duchess appears to have been absent.
Once more, Aumerle became Earl of Rutland; Surrey, Earl of Kent Exeter, Earl of Huntingdon; Wiltshire, Sir William Le Scrope; and Gloucester, Lord Le Despenser. Hitherto, King Richard had been imprisoned in the Tower, a lonely captive.
She was almost unconsciously humming to herself the air of a troubadour chanson an air as well-known to ourselves as to her, though we have turned it into a hymn tune, and have christened it Innocents, or Durham. A fresh stave was just begun, when the hall door opened, and a voice at the further end announced "A messenger from my Lord of Aumerle!" Maude rose as the messenger approached her.
"Forcing a change is a very ticklish business," said Aumerle, studying the menu, and regretting that his digestion was not all it had been. Lord Garrow deplored the fact that Mr. Gladstone had embarked on a very vulgar and very false policy. "But its vulgarity," he sighed, "gives it a very easy reception."
Aumerle gave him time to mount the stairs to assume his riding-suit, and then himself went quietly to the stable, saddled a fleet barb, and rode for his life to Windsor. "Who goes there?" rang the royal warder's challenge. "The Lord of Rutland, to have instant speech of the King. Is my gracious Lord of York here?" York had not arrived, and his son was safe.
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