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'The instructions are written by Cecil Walpole, the private secretary of Lord Danesbury. I have obtained several specimens of his writing. There is no attempt at disguise or concealment in this.
Lord Danesbury is ready enough to say that, because I am some ten years older than you, I should have kept you out of mischief. I never contracted for such a bear-leadership; though I certainly told Lady Maude I'd turn Queen's evidence against you if you became a traitor. 'I wonder you never told me that before, said Walpole, with some irritation of manner.
I only know what people say in the clubs and laugh over at dinner-tables. 'I cannot affect to be very sensitive as to these Celtic criticisms, and I shall not ask you to recall them. 'They say that Danesbury got kicked out, all for your blunders! 'Do they? said Walpole innocently.
Lord Danesbury not very demonstrative at any time received him with warmth, and Lady Maude gave him her hand with a sort of significant cordiality that overwhelmed him with delight. The climax of his enjoyment was, however, reached when Lord Danesbury said to him, 'We are glad to see you at home again.
'He has not seen "The Whitebait Dinner" yet, said Lady Maude; 'the cleverest jeu d'esprit of the day. 'Ay, or of any day, broke in Lord Danesbury. 'Even the Anti-Jacobin has nothing better. The notion is this.
'If I had not understood these things as you yourself understand them, I should not have been so indiscreet as to offer you that letter, and once more he proffered it. This time the Greek took it, tore open the envelope, and read it through. 'It is from Lord Danesbury, said he at length.
There was that of mockery in the way he said this, and the little smile that played about his mouth when he finished, that left Atlee in considerable doubt how to read him. 'I study your newspapers, Mr. Atlee, resumed he. 'I never omit to read your Times, and I see how my old acquaintance, Lord Danesbury, has been making Turkey out of Ireland!
Among the best known are Danesbury House, Oswald Cray, Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles, The Channings, Lord Oakburn's Daughters, and The Shadow of Ashlydyat. Mrs. W. was for some years proprietor and ed. of the Argosy. Writer on natural history, s. of a surgeon, b. in London, and ed. at home and at Oxf., where he worked for some time in the anatomical museum.
'It is ruin to me, cried Walpole, with passion. 'Here is a despatch from Lord Danesbury, commanding me immediately to go over to him in Wales, and I can guess easily what has occasioned the order. 'I'll send for a force of Dublin detectives. I'll write to the chief of the police. I'll not rest till I have every one in the house examined on oath, cried Kearney. 'What was it like?
Joseph Atlee had a very busy morning of it on a certain November day at Pera, when the post brought him tidings that Lord Danesbury had resigned the Irish viceroyalty, and had been once more named to his old post as ambassador at Constantinople.
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