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'Do you imagine I should sit at my uncle's table if I did not intend to force him to repair the wrong he has done to himself and to us? he said. 'Oh! Nevil, do you not see Captain Baskelett at work here? 'What amends can Cecil Baskelett make? My uncle is a man of honour: it is in his power. There, I leave you to speak to him; you will do it to-night, after we break up in the drawing-room.
Romfrey thought this rather clever, said Captain Baskelett, and read rapidly: "Trace the course of Ego for them: first the king who conquers and can govern. In his egoism he dubs him holy; his family is of a selected blood; he makes the crown hereditary Ego. Son by son the shame of egoism increases; valour abates; hereditary Crown, no hereditary qualities. The Barons rise.
Lady Menai would gladly have persuaded him to be one of her company for the day's voyage, but he said he had business in Bevisham, and moving aside with Cecil, put the question to him abruptly: 'What were the words used by Shrapnel? 'The identical words? Captain Baskelett asked.
"'An apology to the amiable and virtuous Mistress Culling?" says old Nevil: "an apology? what for?" "For unbecoming and insolent behaviour," says my lord. 'I am that lady's friend, Stukely warned Captain Baskelett. 'Don't let us have a third apology in the field. 'Perfectly true; you are her friend, and you know what a friend of mine she is, rejoined Cecil.
I'm afraid I permitted myself to lose my self-command for a moment. Palmet sang out an amorous couplet to console himself. Captain Baskelett respected the poetic art for its magical power over woman's virtue, but he disliked hearing verses, and they were ill-suited to Palmet. He abused his friend roundly, telling him it was contemptible to be quoting verses. He was irritable still.
Captain Baskelett was gifted with the art, which is a fine and a precious one, of priceless value in society, and not wanting a benediction upon it in our elegant literature, namely, the art of stripping his fellow-man and so posturing him as to make every movement of the comical wretch puppet-like, constrained, stiff, and foolish.
'Nevil, you will be driving into the town with the second Tory candidate of the borough. 'Which? who? Nevil 'asked. 'Your cousin Cecil. 'Tell Captain Baskelett that I don't drive down till an hour later, Nevil said to the groom. 'Cecilia, you're my friend; I wish you were more. I wish we didn't differ. I shall hope to change you make you come half-way out of that citadel of yours.
But so heartily did the earl despise this nephew that he never thought of trying strength with the fellow, and hardly cared to know what his value was, beyond his immediate uses as an instrument to strike with. Beauchamp of Romfrey had been his dream, not Baskelett: and it increased his disgust of Beauchamp that Baskelett should step forward as the man.
The end of it was that all three flew apart, for Cecil confessed to having a temper, and in contempt of him for the admission wrung out of him, Lord Avonley had pricked it. My lord went down to Steynham, Beauchamp to Holdesbury, and Captain Baskelett to his quarters; whence in a few days he repaired penitently to my lord the most placable of men when a full submission was offered to him.
Why, General Sherwin's a perfect gentleman, Colonel Halkett interjected; and Lord Palmet caught the other name: 'Jenny? That's Miss Denham, Jenny Denham; an amazingly pretty girl: beautiful thick brown hair, real hazel eyes, and walks like a yacht before the wind. 'Perhaps, colonel, Jenny accounts for the defence of society, said Captain Baskelett.
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