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How long ago it seemed! The costume and hat looked as new and smart as ever, she had a indeed scarcely worn them since she went on the case. She could hardly realise it was less than two months since she had answered that advertisement. She sighed as, mechanically, she tucked a fresh handkerchief into her breast pocket, and started for Miss Clifford's room to say good-bye to the old lady.
The whole estate was, indeed, much larger, eighteen thousand acres; but then the more distant farms could be sold in different lots, in order to meet the exact sum Miss Cameron's trustees were enabled to invest. "Well," said Vargrave, "and where is it? My poor uncle was after De Clifford's estate, but the title was not good."
Meantime there was a mighty rush of feet throughout the frigate, every hatchway was crammed with men eager to force their way on deck. In five seconds the middy of the watch and half her crew were in the lee cutter, fitted with Clifford's apparatus. "Lower away!" cried the excited officer; "the others will come down by the pendants."
Speeches began rather late. Elliott made one and offered a toast to "la plus jolie demoiselle de Paris," which was drunk amid great enthusiasm and responded to by Gethryn, ending with a toast to Rowden. Rowden's response was stiff, but most correct. The same could not be said of Clifford's answer to the toast, "The struggling Artist Heaven help him!"
He was in truth no novice in the art of purchasing votes. He had, sixteen years before, succeeded Clifford at the Treasury, had inherited Clifford's tactics, had improved upon them, and had employed them to an extent which would have amazed the inventor.
Clifford's "grace" was not a formal mumble, but a grateful acknowledgment of the source from which, as he truly believed, had flowed all the good that had blessed their life; and then followed the genial, unrestrained table-talk of a household that, as yet, possessed no closeted skeleton.
But the heart of a man in Clifford's awful situation is dark and inscrutable; and often when the wildest and gloomiest external circumstances surround us, their reflection sleeps like a shadow, calm and still upon the mind. Around the court the crowd thickened with every moment, until the whole marketplace in which the townhall was situated became one living mass.
To have the feeling of gentility, it is not necessary to have been born gentle. The pride of ancestry may be had on cheaper terms than to be obliged to an importunate race of ancestors; and the coatless antiquary in his unemblazoned cell, revolving the long line of a Mowbray's or De Clifford's pedigree, at those sounding names may warm himself into as gay a vanity as those who do inherit them.
He joined us, unexpectedly, one morning as we were walking out, and touching a shawl Mrs. Clifford wore, "A thousand looms," he said, "are at work in Cashmere at this instant providing these for you." MARIA to MRS. MARY SNEYD AT EDGEWORTHSTOWN. MRS. CLIFFORD'S, June 1813. Saturday Evening.
Would you object to turn aside into this place I think it is called Clifford's Inn where we can hear one another better than in the roaring street? 'Mr Boffin, I happened to be in Chancery Lane this morning, when I saw you going along before me. I took the liberty of following you, trying to make up my mind to speak to you, till you went into your lawyer's.
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