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The last of these towns is indeed the county town, where the county gaol is kept, and where the assizes are very often held; it stands on the conflux of two rivers the Chelmer, whence the town is called, and the Cann.
"The Prisoner of Pleasure" was Walter Bassett's phrase for her. Even now she was a convict on circuit. Some of the dungeons were in ancient castles, from which Bassett was barred, but all of which opened to Amber's golden keys, though only because Lady Chelmer knew how to turn them. He, however, penetrated the ducal doors through the letter-box. The Hon.
The present government of this important place is under the prudent administration of the Right Honourable the Lord Newbrugh. From hence there is nothing for many miles together remarkable but a continued level of unhealthy marshes, called the Three Hundreds, till we come before Leigh, and to the mouth of the River Chelmer, and Blackwater.
"I've been reading so much about you," said that young lady, with a sweet smile. "But you shouldn't be so independent, you know, you really shouldn't." He smiled back. "I'm only independent till they come to my way of thinking." Lady Chelmer gasped. "Then you still have hopes of Highmead!" "I won a moral victory there each time, Lady Chelmer." "How so, sir?" put in the Marquis.
IChe EDWARD Koning, Have given of my Forrest the kepen of the Hundred of Chelmer and Dancing. To RANDOLPH PEPERKING, And to his kindling. With Heorte and Hind, Doe and Bocke, Hare and Fox, Cat and Brock, Wild Fowle with his Flock; Patrich, Pheasant Hen, and Pheasant Cock, With green and wild Stub and Stock, To kepen and to yemen with all her might. Witness the Bishop of Wolston.
"Yes, of course, that is the side on which they need encouragement," he rejoined drily. "Majuba was lost on the playing-field of Lord's." There was a moment of shocked surprise. Lady Chelmer, herself a martyr to the religion of sport thus blasphemed of which she understood as little as of any other religion hastily tried to pour tea on the troubled waters. But they had been troubled too deeply.
"Then at that rate you can unseat him for bribery." "At that rate or higher," he replied drily. "To unseat another is even more expensive than to seat oneself." "Why, it seems all a question of money," said Miss Amber Roan, naively. Lady Chelmer was glad when the season came to an end and the dancing mice had no longer to spin dizzyingly in their gilded cage.
"But I'm sure I read about it in the English histories it was all abolished." "A good many things were abolished by the Decalogue even earlier," he replied grimly. "Half an hour before the poll closed I could have bought a thousand votes at a shilling each." "Well, that seems reasonable enough," said Lady Chelmer. "It was beyond my pocket." "What! Fifty pounds?" cried Amber, incredulously.
The blush that followed was hers, not his. "But what became of the thousand votes?" she asked hurriedly. He laughed. "Half an hour before the poll closed they had gone down to sixpence apiece like fish that wouldn't keep." "My! And were they all wasted?" "No. My rival bought them up. Vide the newspapers 'the polling was unusually heavy towards the close." "Really!" intervened Lady Chelmer.
From the marshes and low grounds being not able to travel without many windings and indentures by reason of the creeks and waters, I came up to the town of Malden, a noted market town situate at the conflux or joining of two principal rivers in this county, the Chelm or Chelmer, and the Blackwater, and where they enter into the sea.
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