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Lothair," said Carisbrooke, "I do not think we have seen you this season certainly not since Easter. What have you been doing with yourself?" "You have been in Egypt?" said Mr. Brancepeth. "The duke was mentioning at White's to-day that you had returned with his son and Lord St. Aldegonde." "And does it pay?" inquired Carisbrooke. "Egypt?
"Well, you will have him and Pinto to yourself." The large fish languidly rose and swallowed the bait, and the exulting Mr. Brancepeth cantered off to Hill Street to give the necessary instructions. Mr. Pinto was one of the marvels of English society; the most sought after of all its members, though no one could tell you exactly why.
Brancepeth did not flag: they talked of the sport of the morning, and then, by association of ideas, of every other sport. And then from the sports of England they ranged to the sports of every other country. There were several there who had caught salmon in Norway and killed tigers in Bengal, and visited those countries only for that purpose.
Aldegonde," said the Duke of Brecon, "is the least conventional man of my acquaintance." Notwithstanding this stern sneer, a practiced general like Mr. Brancepeth felt he had won the day. All his guests would disperse and tell the world that they had dined with him and met St.
The scowl on his distressed countenance at first intimated a retreat; but after a survey, courteous to his host, and speaking kindly to Lothair as he passed on, he made a rush to Mr. Pinto, and, cordially embracing him, said, "Mind we sit together." The dinner was not a failure, though an exception to the polished ceremony of the normal Brancepeth banquet.
Aldegonde, throwing himself back in his chair, and talking to himself or the ceiling, would exclaim, "Best thing I ever heard," while Hugo nodded sympathy with a beaming smile. The swells now and then paused in their conversation and glanced at the scene of disturbance. "They seem highly amused there," said Mr. Brancepeth. "I wish they would pass it on." "I think St.
Brancepeth whispered to his own valet a fine gentleman, who stood by his master's chair and attended on no one else, except, when requisite, his master's immediate neighbor and desired him to suggest to St. Aldegonde whether the side-table might not provide, under the difficulties, some sustenance. St.
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