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The Earl of Salisbury could not but think that a strictly honourable man would have felt poor Grisell's disaster inflicted by his son's hands all the more reason for holding to the former understanding; but the loud clamours and rude language of Lady Whitburn were enough to set any one in opposition to her, and moreover, the words he said in favour of her side of the question appeared to Copeland merely spoken out of the general enmity of the Nevils to the Beauforts and all their following.
With a heaving breast, and every nerve in his body quivering with wrath, the proud, unhappy boy strode through the gay streets. They had betrayed him then, these accursed Beauforts! they circled his steps with schemes to drive him like a deer into the snare of their loathsome charity! The roof was to be taken from his head the bread from his lips so that he might fawn at their knees for bounty.
The Newport Archery Club always held its August meeting at the Beauforts'. The sport, which had hitherto known no rival but croquet, was beginning to be discarded in favour of lawn-tennis; but the latter game was still considered too rough and inelegant for social occasions, and as an opportunity to show off pretty dresses and graceful attitudes the bow and arrow held their own.
The gentle King and the Beauforts wished for peace with France; the nation, and with them York, thought this was giving up honour, land, and plunder, and suspected the Queen, as a Frenchwoman, of truckling to the enemy. Jack Cade's rising and the murder of the Duke of Suffolk had been the outcome of this feeling.
Society must manage to get on without the Beauforts, and there was an end of it except indeed for such hapless victims of the disaster as Medora Manson, the poor old Miss Lannings, and certain other misguided ladies of good family who, if only they had listened to Mr. Henry van der Luyden ... "The best thing the Beauforts can do," said Mrs.
Wrapped in gloomy thought, alone, and on foot-at that dreary hour, and in that remote suburb the heir of the Beauforts sought his splendid home. Anxious, fearful, hoping, the outcast orphan flew on to the death-room of his mother. Mr.
The question weighed on them both whether they should ever meet more, after eighteen years of youth spent together. 'Youth is gone, said Bedford. 'We have been under a mighty master, and now God help us to do his work. 'You! said James; 'but for me it is like to be the library and the Round Tower again. 'Scarcely, said Bedford, 'the Beauforts will never rest till Joan is on a throne.
Any time between nine and twelve to-night, or to-morrow night, you will find me at home; and if you are not better engaged, suppose you dine with me to-day or rather dine opposite to me and excuse my Spartan broth. "Yours, "LILBURNE "Park Lane, Sept. "The Beauforts. Fate favors me I will go. The date is for to-day."
Now, he had always believed in his heart that the Beauforts were acquainted with a secret which he more and more pined to penetrate.
"Sir," he said in a low voice and with downcast eyes, "you are right: this disguise this false name must be for ever borne! Why need the Beauforts, then, ever know who and what I am? Why not as your nephew nephew to one so respected and exemplary proffer my claims and plead my cause?" "They are proud so it is said and worldly; you know my family was in trade still but " and here Mr.
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