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Tom looked up, half ashamed, half flattered, the charm of Lord Claud's presence beginning at once to make itself felt. "My lord, I could not think you wanted such a humble person as myself! And you had but to send me a line to Master Cale's if you did," he stammered. Lord Claud dropped into the seat next him, laughing a light, low-toned laugh. "I like your simplicity, my honest Tom.
He was not a youth of much imagination or poetry, but he did feel a strange thrilling of the pulses as he looked upon this wonderful sight. But Lord Claud's face was cool and impassive as usual, and his remark was: "Very fine to look at, good Tom, but ugly customers to tackle.
Captain Jack had some of Lord Claud's power of commanding confidence; and, indeed, in this case Tom felt a greater sense of security in the promise of this highway robber than in that of his mysterious friend and leader in London. "I will go," he said. "I believe you. I take you at your word. I will return home to my mother and sister, and rejoice their hearts.
A strain of recklessness in Tom's blood made the notion of even robbery on the king's highway fascinating rather than terrible at least when he could say to himself that he was but "taking his own." It was plain enough now that this was the secret of Lord Claud's life hinted at more or less plainly by many before, but never altogether understood by Tom.
Tom observed, with some satisfaction, that there was respect, if not admiration, in their manner, and he wondered what had caused this; for yesterday he had received mockery and taunts as his portion from men of much less distinction than Lord Claud's friends.
The descendant of an obscure centurion, he had been a veterinary surgeon; then, having got Caligula's ear, he flattered it abominably. Caligula disposed of, he flattered Claud, or what amounted to the same thing, Narcissus, Claud's chamberlain.
If you have a clear head, a strong arm, and a stout heart, there is yet a hope that we may gain our ends." Tom looked up eagerly. He saw something in Lord Claud's face which seemed to him strange, and which inspired him with a sense of keen, quick curiosity and excitement. He felt as though he were on the verge of some new discovery.
It was then that Agrippina ordered of Locusta that famous stew of poison and mushrooms, which Nero, in allusion to Claud's apotheosis, called the food of the gods. The fate that destined Claud to marry Agrippina destined her to kill him.
She was accustomed to see men flinch and quail before her, and despised the race accordingly. But the few who bad no fear of her she recognized as her masters, and she gave them the love of her heart and the best of her powers. "That will do, Tom," said Lord Claud's voice from behind; "you have won my lady's capricious fancy.
If Tom was quoting Lord Claud's moralizings, he quoted them in all good faith; for he had been honestly disgusted by the glimpses he had had of the goings on of fine ladies in their houses, and could better appreciate the simplicity and true affection of his own womankind than he had ever done before.
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