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"Guy's pretensions at an end! For heaven's sake, tell me all you know of this affair for up to this moment I am in utter ignorance of every thing regarding his position among the Callonby family." "Unfortunately," replied Trevanion, "I know but little, but still that little is authentic Guy himself having imparted the secret to a very intimate friend of mine.
All his Lordship's politeness was too little for the occasion, and Miss O'Dowd's tenantry were lost to the Callonby interest for ever. "The carriage is at the door, my lord," said a servant, entering the luncheon-room where we were all assembled. "Now then, Mr. Lorrequer," said Lord Callonby, "allons, take another glass of wine, and let us away.
"Ah, my Lord, we expected you earlier," and then said some words in too low a tone for me to hear, motioning towards me as he spoke. If Waller was surprised at seeing me where I was, it was nothing to the effect produced upon the present party, whom I now recognized as Lord Callonby.
Lorrequer," said Lady Callonby rising, "get Smith's book there, and let me have your arm; and now, young ladies, come along, and learn something, if you can." "An admirable proviso," said Lord Kilkee, laughing; "if his botany be only as authentic as the autographs he gave Mrs. MacDermot, and all of which he wrote himself, in my dressing-room, in half an hour.
"Agreed then," holding my uncle to his promise, "I pledge myself that his nephew shall be husband of Lady Jane Callonby, and now, my Lord, read Harry vice Guy in the contract, and I am certain my uncle is too faithful to his plighted word, and too true to his promise not to say it shall be."
Before I had time for another question Kilkee passed his arm within mine, and led me along the corridor, pouring out, the entire time a whole rhapsody about the practical joke of my late illness, which he was pleased to say would ring from one end of Europe to the other. Lord Callonby was alone in the breakfast-room when we entered, and the moment he perceived me called out,
This, though neither very courteous, nor altogether flattering to listen to, was no more than I had already learned from some brother officers who knew this quarter, and who informed me that the Earl of Callonby, though only visiting his Irish estates every three or four years, never took the slightest notice of any of the military in his neighbourhood; nor, indeed did he mix with the country gentry, confining himself to his own familyl, or the guests, who usually accompanied him from England, and remained during his few weeks' stay.
Then followed more from the "Sixth Form Mouse": "The Sixth held a Cabinet Council to-day to discuss who should go out for nuts. The choice fell on Callonby. I wonder why the Sixth are so fond of nuts. Why, monkeys eat nuts. Perhaps that is the reason. What a popular writer Mr Bohn is with the Sixth! they even read him at lesson time! I was quite sorry when the Doctor had to bone Wren's Bohn.
O'Leary concluded his story, and I was obliged to join in the mirth of Trevanion, who laughed loud and long as he finished it. O'Leary and Trevanion had scarcely left the room when the waiter entered with two letters the one bore a German post-mark, and was in the well-known hand of Lady Callonby the other in a writing with which I was no less familiar that of Emily Bingham.
In fact my brain run on so fast in its devisings, that by a quick process, less logical than pleasing, I satisfied myself that the lovely Lady Jane Callonby was actually in love, with whom let the reader guess at. And Lord Callonby too, about to join the ministry well, all the better to have one's father-in-law in power promotion is so cursed slow now a-days.
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