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"No, I was in England, and she died a year after I came back before I went into politics at all." "I wonder if she was nice." "My dear Alicia, what can it matter?" asked Eleanor. "If you come to that, Eleanor, most of the things we talk about don't matter," protested Alicia. "We are not Attorney-Generals, like Mr. Coxon, whose words are worth how much?" "Now, Miss Derosne, you're chaffing me."
He smiled his bitter smile again, and she turned away with her words unspoken. A silence followed. Coxon was wondering if his hint had gone too far. Lady Eynesford wondered how far he had meant it to carry. The idea of danger there was new and strange, and perhaps absurd, but infinitely disagreeable and disquieting. "Well, good-bye, Lady Eynesford," he began. "No, don't go," she answered.
Eleanor enjoyed a smile in the sheltering gloom of the carriage. She felt very discreet. The Premier sent his daughter home alone in a fly and walked with Coxon, whose road lay the same way. As they went, they talked of plans and prospects, and Medland unconsciously exasperated his companion by praising Norburn's character and capacity.
The expedition of Harris, Coxon, Sharp and their associates across the isthmus in 1680 had kindled the imaginations of the buccaneers with the possibilities of greater plunder and adventure in these more distant regions.
"I never let on about you and Coxon," said Dick, who wished to change the subject, and made his escape under shelter of Miss Scaife's indignant repudiation. Still humming his tune, he mounted his horse and rode to the Public Park. At a particular turn of the avenue he pulled up and waited under a tree. Presently a pony-carriage appeared in the distance.
"It is no pretence, sir," replied Stanislas, with dignity. "What! You call yourself a Wilders! By what right?" "My mother is first cousin to the present Lord Essendine." "Through whom?" "Her father, Anastasius Wilders." "I know my father's brother. Then you belong to the elder branch. But I never heard that he married." "He married Priscilla Coxon in 1805." "Privately?" "I believe not.
"I didn't know Premiers danced," she said, and perhaps her glance conveyed a shy invitation to Medland. "If I ask you now, I shall have another secession," he replied, smiling at Coxon. "Besides, I can't dance." "You must sit out with me then," she said, growing bolder. "You don't mind, do you, Mr. Coxon?" Coxon and Dick were left to console one another, and Alicia sat down with Medland.
"He is no doubt alarmed," said Sir Robert. "He gave the police the names of the rest of their precious society, and, oddly enough, Ned Evans, of the House you know him, Coxon? was one." "Heard such an awful lot of debates, poor chap," observed Captain Heseltine. "Well, they went to Evans' and collared him.
He's furious with Medland, partly for doing the thing at all, partly for not telling him sooner. He thinks Medland took advantage of his civility yesterday and paraded him in the Park as on his side, while all the time he never said a word about this move of his." "Ah!" said everybody, and Coxon, who knew nothing about the matter, endorsed Kilshaw's account with a significant nod.
Medland's followers were not there in much force, being for the most part employed elsewhere, and indeed at no time much given to club-life, or suited for it, but there were many of Perry's, and still more of those who had followed Puttock, or were reported to be about to follow Coxon, and among them the members for several divisions in and near Kirton.
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