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George had raised her by taking her hand, and now he looked vaguely from her to old Bugbee. "It is a message. You said a petition," said the King, dubiously, to his banker. "Your Majesty, I thought " "Leave us, Bugbee," interrupted George, with a wave of his hand, not looking at the banker. "Let us hear this fair messenger."
"In London;" and the old banker dovetailed his fingers and stood with a smile as if ready for all questions. "And for my services my assistance in this game of yours " "Pardon me," interrupted Bugbee, sententiously, "it is not a game of mine. It is my plan to save the King from certain destruction." "Well, whatever it is," said Mrs. Oswald Carey, impatiently, "for my part of it I shall have what?"
As she threw aside her wraps and sank into a soft chair, old Bugbee opened the door of an inner room, and turned to her: "These are your apartments," said he. The Beauty looked around, but said nothing, only nodding her head. "You are very tired?" questioned old Bugbee. "No; not very. But I should like some supper and a glass of wine." Mr. Bugbee touched a bell and gave an order.
The few new-comers to Belfield, therefore, were never apt to suspect that Helen Bugbee was not really the Doctor's own daughter; and even the neighbors forgot that her name had ever been changed, except when the gossips sometimes put each other in mind of it. The older she grew the more Helen resembled her mother, as the ladies always used to exclaim when they came to take tea with Mrs. Bugbee.
Coming through the wicket in the garden fence, on an errand to the Bugbee kitchen, the sound of her own name, in Laura's excited tones, struck Mrs. Jaynes's ear and excited her curiosity.
He was not, to be sure, esteemed by all, especially the women, to be so great a man as the Reverend Jabez Jaynes, A.M., who, by virtue of his sacred office and academical honors, took formal precedence of every mere layman in the parish. But with this notable exception, Doctor Bugbee was the peer of every other dignitary, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical, within the borders of the town.
Fatal words these of King Edward's will, for they secured the lifelong poverty of the grandson whose welfare he had at heart. During the few years of George's reign the royal coffers overflowed with gold. Bugbee, the King's banker, was exhaustless as an ocean of wealth.
It was while the twins remained at this notable seminary that they executed those wonderful landscapes, in Reeves's best water-colors, which used to decorate the walls of the parlors in the Bugbee mansion, and which, I dare say, still hang in tarnished gilt frames in some of the bedchambers.
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