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Conyngham, with characteristic good-nature, had made himself so entirely at home on board the Mediterranean trader that his presence was equally welcomed in the forecastle and the captain's cabin.
'The General told me, he went on in his cold voice, without a gleam of geniality or even of life in his eyes, 'that if I followed the servant to the drawing-room I should find here an English aide-de- camp who is fully in his confidence, and upon whose good-nature and assistance I could rely. 'I am for the time General Vincente's aide-de-camp, and I am an Englishman, answered Conyngham.
And some woman's instinct sent her to Estella's side two women alone in that great house amid this man's work, this strife of reckless politicians. 'And you, and Senor Conyngham, she cried, 'you must not run this great risk. 'It is what we are paid for, my dear Julia, answered the General, holding out his arm and indicating the gold stripes upon it.
I have done nothing; but I have taken exercise, and so acquired health, without which I cannot do business. September 20. Met Mr. Conyngham of the Foreign Office. He told me the Turks were ready to make the required concessions. Of the disposition of the Russians nothing seems known. R. Gordon has of his own authority ordered up Sir Pulteney Malcolm from Vourla to the Dardanelles.
'It was also a stupid error, if I may say so, to make your way back to Durham by Ravensworth, where you were seen and recognised. You see I have a good case against you, Mr. Conyngham. 'Yes, I admit you have a good case against me, but you have not caught me yet. Sir John Pleydell looked at him coldly. 'You do not even take the trouble to deny the facts I have named.
Conyngham should we meet him in Madrid. I liked him. I like a roving man and many Englishmen are thus wanderers but appearances are very much against him. 'Yes, admitted Estella quietly. 'Yes. She moved towards the door, and there turning looked at Concha. 'Does the Padre stay to dinner? she asked. 'No, my child, thank you. No; I have affairs at home.
He made this last admission with a face full of pious toleration, and Father Concha laughed grimly. 'That is true, my friend, said the General, hastening to cover the priest's little lapse of good manners, 'and from these gentlemen honest enough in their way, no doubt you have learnt ? 'That the Senor Conyngham has enemies in Spain. 'So I understand; but he has also friends?
A little, little sin no larger than the eye of a fly a little bite of a calf's sweetbread on Friday in mere forgetfulness, and Sancta Maria! what a penance is required! What suffering! It is a purgatory to have such a confessor. 'Surely madame can have no sins, said Conyngham pleasantly. 'Not now, said Senora Barenna with a deep sigh. 'When I was young it was different.
'You may be the Alcalde of Ronda, said Conyngham cheerfully, in continuation of the General's argument; 'but if you offer such an insult to Senorita Barenna, I throw you into the fountain, in the deepest part, where it is wettest, just there by the marble dolphin. And Conyngham indicated the exact spot with his riding-whip. 'Who is this gentleman? asked the Alcalde.
The Marquess of Conyngham, whom I met at Strabane, said: "The people of Donegal are pleasant, kind, and civil. Taking them all round, they are much more energetic than the Southerners, and we were making fair progress until these Home Rule Bills were brought in. The country was being opened up, and things were beginning to improve, when the bill came and blighted everything.
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