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Updated: June 11, 2025
There are moments in life in which conviction will follow a bold "coup de main," that never would have ensued from the slow process of reasoning. Luckily for me, this was one of those happy intervals. Lord Callonby catching my uncle's enthusiasm, seized me by the hand and said,
Though so late at night, a courier had arrived from England for Lord Callonby, with some important dispatches from the Government; this would, at any other time, have interested me deeply; now I heard the news without a particle of feeling, and I made all the necessary dispositions for my journey, without paying the slightest attention to what was going on about me.
Our first greetings over, the colonel drew me aside into a window, and said that, from certain expressions Lord Callonby had made use of certain hints he had dropped he was perfectly aware of the delicate position in which I stood with respect to his lordship's family.
"Ya," said the man-mountain with the napkin. "Well, then, open the door, pray I'm going to stop here." "Nein." "No! What do you mean by that? Has not Lord Callonby engaged rooms here?" "Ya." "Well, then, I am a particular friend of his, and will stay here also." "Nein."
"It's a plaguey nuisance, that's what it is," said Stansfield; "we are sure to get licked. Who's to play half-back instead of him, I'd like to know?" "Forrester, in the Fourth, plays a very good half-back," said Callonby; "he's tremendously quick on his feet." "Yes, but he can't kick. I've a good mind to put Wraysford in the place.
After breakfast Lord Callonby consigned me to the guidance of his son, and we sallied forth to deal destruction amongst the pheasants, with which the preserves were stocked; and here I may observe, 'en passant', that with the single exception of fox-hunting, which was ever a passion with me, I never could understand that inveterate pursuit of game to which some men devote themselves thus, grouse-shooting, and its attendant pleasures, of stumping over a boggy mountain from day-light till dark, never had much attraction for me; and, as to the delights of widgeon and wild-duck shooting, when purchased by sitting up all night in a barrel, with your eye to the bung, I'll none of it no, no!
"Indeed," said Lord Callonby, with a start of surprise, "I never heard of that before." If it had not been for that start of amazement, I should have died of terror. It was the only thing that showed me I was not out of my senses, which I now concluded the old gentleman must be, for I never had heard of the Greek loan in my life before.
My first evening at Callonby passed off as nearly all first evenings do every where.
That one fact were to me all, and upon the answer to my question, I hung with deep anxiety. "Guy here! no, not yet. The fact is, Harry, my boy, Guy has not got on here as well as I could have wished. Everything had been arranged among us Callonby behaved most handsomely and, as far as regarded myself, I threw no impediment in the way.
When I reached the top, I found myself upon a broad table land, encircled by old and well-grown timber, and at a distance, most tastefully half concealed by ornamental planting, I could catch some glimpse of Callonby.
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