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"I fear you will have too busy a day on Monday," said the cardinal, who had caught up the conversation. "Well, you know, sir, I do not sit up smoking with Lord St. Aldegonde." After dinner, Lady Corisande seated herself by Mrs. Campian.
"Except by Campian, who spoke probably about you to no one save myself," continued Phoebus, "your name has never been mentioned with reference to those strange transactions. Once there was a sort of rumor that you had met with some mishap, but these things were contradicted and explained, and then forgotten: and people were all out of town.
Your friend seems to know these shores well." "Ah! what is it we do not know?" said Campian, with a mysterious smile. "And now?" "And now, to prove to you how I trust to you, you shall come with me, and see this the lady of whom I spoke, and judge for yourself whether my fault is not a venial one." "Ah, my son, have I not absolved you already? What have I to do with fair faces?
As time, and considerable time, elapsed, he became even miserable. Mr. Phoebus never moved, and Mrs. Campian frequently conversed with him. More than one visitor had in the interval paid their respects to the lady, but Mr. Phoebus never moved. They did not stay, perhaps because Mr. Phoebus never moved. Lothair never liked that fellow from the first.
"Our best, if not our only, chance," he said to Colonel Campian, "is this that the Italian army now gathered in force upon the frontier should march to Rome and arrive there before the French. Whatever then happens, we shall at least get rid of the great imposture, but in all probability the French and Italians will fight.
The conquest of Portugal was fatal to the Papal projects against England, for while the armies of Spain marched on Lisbon Elizabeth was able to throw the leaders of the expected revolt into prison and to send Campian to the scaffold. On the other hand it raised Philip into a far more formidable foe. The conquest almost doubled his power. His gain was far more than that of Portugal itself.
Popular writers and speakers dwell on the executions of Campian and his friends as worse than the Smithfield burnings, and amidst general admiration and approval these martyred saints have been lately canonised. Their mission, it is said, was purely religious. Was it so?
A large number of the Oxford refugees at Douay had joined the Order of Jesus, whose members were already famous for their blind devotion to the will and judgements of Rome; and the two ablest and most eloquent of these exiles, Campian, once a fellow of St. John's, and Parsons, once a fellow of Balliol, were despatched in the spring of 1580 as the heads of a Jesuit mission in England.
It is difficult to decide which is the most valuable companion to a country eremite at his nightly studies, the volume that keeps him awake or the one that sets him a-slumbering. At the end of a week Lothair had some good sport on his moors and this reminded him of the excellent Campian, who had received and answered his letter.
Up to them she tripped on delicate ankles and tiny feet, tall, lithe, and graceful, a true West-country lass; and as she passed them with a pretty blush and courtesy, even Campian looked back at the fair innocent creature, whose long dark curls, after the then country fashion, rolled down from beneath the hood below her waist, entangling the soul of Eustace Leigh within their glossy nets.
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