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The next he opened was briefer. It ran thus: 'DEAR DANESBURY, You must go back at once to Turkey. That inscrutable idiot Brumsey has discovered another mare's-nest, and we are lucky if Gortschakoff does not call upon us for public apology. Brunow is outrageous and demands B.'s recall. I sent off the despatch while he was with me. Yours, G. 'P.S. Take none of your Irish suite with you to the East.
With a neatness and tact all his own, Atlee narrated Brumsey's blunder in a tone so simple and almost deferential, that Lord Danesbury could show the letter to any of his colleagues. The whole spirit of the document was regret that a very well-intentioned gentleman of good connections and irreproachable morals should be an ass! Not that he employed the insufferable designation.
He talked well, and not the less well that his listener was a fresh audience, who heard everything for the first time, and with all the interest that attaches to a new topic. Lord Danesbury was, indeed, that 'sheet of white paper' the head of the Cabinet had long been searching for, and he hastened to inscribe him with the characters he wished.
Up to this, we have had no Parliament in England sufficiently advanced for your opinions. On the whole, however, if not followed up which Lord Danesbury strongly objected to its being he said there was no great harm in a young man making his first advances in political life by something startling.
He did not dine that day at Bruton Street, and only returned about ten o'clock, when he knew he should find Lord Danesbury in his study. 'I have determined, my lord, said he, with somewhat of decision in his tone that savoured of a challenge, 'to go over to Ireland by the morning mail.
'Lord Danesbury never married, but I know with what interest and affection he follows the fortunes of men who live to secure the happiness of their children.
'All right; I suppose it will do I hope it will do; and after all, I take it, you are likely to understand each other better than others would. 'Such is our impression and belief. 'How will your own people how will Danesbury like it? 'For their sakes I trust they will like it very much; for mine, it is less than a matter of indifference to me.
Too much engrossed by his own thoughts to notice the other's manner, Lord Danesbury merely turned from the papers before him to say, 'Ah, indeed! it would be very well done. We were talking about that, were we not, yesterday? What was it? 'The Greek Kostalergi's daughter, my lord? 'To be sure. You are incredulous about her, ain't you?
"In Cheshire, Justice Daniel of Danesbury took from Briggs and others the value of one hundred and sixteen pounds, fifteen shillings and tenpence in coin, kine, and horses. The latter he had the audacity to retain and work for his own use," and so on, instance after instance. Penn's acquaintance at court and his friendships with persons of position never made him an aristocrat.
Leaving the sick man to the tender care of those ladies whose division of labour we have just hinted at, we turn to other interests, and to one of our characters, who, though to all seeming neglected, has not lapsed from our memory. Joe Atlee had been despatched on a very confidential mission by Lord Danesbury.
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