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The village doctor, whose name I forget, a small man, grey, with shrewd grey eyes, sharp and mulberry nose, whose conflagration extended to his rugged cheeks, and touched his chin and forehead, was conversing, no doubt agreeably, with Mary, as Cousin Monica called her guest. Over my shoulder, Milly whispered 'Mr. Carysbroke.
I am not going to be vain. It was a grave interest, but still an interest, for I could see him studying my features while I was turning over his sketches, and he thought I saw nothing else. It was flattering, too, his anxiety that I should think well of his drawing, and referring me to Lady Knollys. Carysbroke had I ever heard my dear father mention that name? I could not recollect it.
My name is Carysbroke, and I had the honour of knowing poor Mr. Ruthyn when I was quite a little boy, and he has shown a kindness for me since, and I hope you will pardon the liberty I fear I've taken. I think my friend, Lady Knollys, too, is a relation of yours; what a charming person she is! 'Oh, is not she? such a darling! I said, and then blushed at my outspoken affection.
Milly and I, thanks to our early Bartram hours, were first down next morning; and so soon as Cousin Monica appeared we attacked her. 'So Lady Mary is the fiancée of Mr. Carysbroke, said I, very cleverly; 'and I think it was very wicked of you to try and involve me in a flirtation with him yesterday. 'And who told you that, pray? asked Lady Knollys, with a pleasant little laugh.
She is Lady Mary Carysbroke, said Lady Knollys. 'A relation of Mr. Carysbroke's, I asserted. 'Yes, a relation; but who told you he was Mr. Carysbroke? asked Cousin Monica. 'Milly told me, when we saw him in the Windmill Wood. 'And who told you, Milly? 'It was L'Amour, answered Milly, with her blue eyes very wide open. 'What does the child mean? L'Amour!
What, Captain Oakley already superseded! and Mr. Carysbroke oh! humiliation engaged. So I smiled on, very much vexed; and being afraid lest I had listened with too apparent an interest to this impostor, I sang a verse of a gay little chanson, and tried to think of Captain Oakley, who somehow had become rather silly.
'Yes, that they have, an' gentlemen too like the Governor, and that Carysbroke; and a precious lingo it is dang it why, the devil himself could not understand it; an' I'm like a fool among you. I could 'most drown myself. It's a shame! It is you know it is. It's a shame!
I must either forfeit my character for disinterested benevolence, so justly admired, or disavow a motive that does such infinite credit to my taste, exclaimed Mr. Carysbroke. 'I think a charitable person would have said that a philanthropist, in prosecuting his virtuous, but perilous vocation, was unexpectedly rewarded by a vision of angels.
Carysbroke; for he fancied if his rank were known, that the county people would have been calling upon him, and so he would have found himself soon involved in a tiresome round of dinners, and must have gone somewhere else. You saw him, Milly, at Bartram, before Maud came? Yes, she had, when he called there to see her father.
Carysbroke to me, and I know not how the remaining ladies divided the doctor between them. That dinner, the first at Elverston, I remember as a very pleasant repast. Everyone talked it was impossible that conversation should flag where Lady Knollys was; and Mr. Carysbroke was very agreeable and amusing.
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