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Updated: May 23, 2025
As affection to those who are unskilled in all things, so is affection to those who despair of all things. The mind of Maltravers was a world without a sun! COELEBS, quid agam?* HORACE. * "What shall I do, a bachelor?" IN a room at Fenton's Hotel sat Lord Vargrave and Caroline Lady Doltimore, two months after the marriage of the latter.
You will not forget the letters of introduction? Where are you going, Caroline?" "Only to my own room, to put on my bonnet; the carriage will be here in a few minutes." And Caroline escaped. "So you go to Cornwall to-morrow, Doltimore?" "Yes; cursed bore! but Lady Elizabeth insists on seeing us, and I don't object to a week's good shooting.
"I have been everywhere in search of you," said Lord Doltimore, in an accent of tender reproach: "come, we are almost too late now." Caroline put her arm into Lord Doltimore's, who hurried her into the ballroom.
For difficulties in a palace she might be prepared; perhaps even for some privations in a cottage ornee, but certainly not for penury in a lodging-house! She listened by degrees with more attention to Vargrave's description of the power and homage that would be hers if she could secure Lord Doltimore; she listened, and was in part consoled.
"I think that will be settled well," said Vargrave to himself, as he was dressing for dinner. "Caroline will manage Doltimore, and I shall manage one vote in the Lords and three in the Commons. I have already talked him into proper politics; a trifle all this, to be sure: but I had nothing else to amuse me, and one must never lose an occasion.
He asked Evelyn if she had yet met him. "What! is he, then, in Paris?" asked Evelyn, quickly. "I heard, indeed," she continued, "that he left Burleigh for Paris, but imagined he had gone on to Italy." "No, he is still here; but he goes, I believe, little into the society Lady Doltimore chiefly visits. Is he one of your favourites, Miss Cameron?"
Lord Doltimore, just returned from the Continent, had not even taken his seat in the Lords; and though his family connections, such as they were and they were not very high, and by no means in the fashion were ministerial, his own opinions were as yet unrevealed. To this young nobleman Lord Vargrave was singularly attentive.
"Lady Doltimore, pardon me," said Maltravers, coldly; "I will not be urged to any failure of respect to you. My lord, if the most abject cowardice be not added to your other vices, you will not make this room the theatre for our altercation. I invite you, in those terms which no gentleman ever yet refused, to withdraw with me."
I would never marry any woman who was not very much in love with me." And Lord Doltimore laughed rather foolishly. "You are more modest than clear-sighted," said Vargrave, smiling; "but mark my words, I predict that the beauty of next season will be a certain Caroline Lady Doltimore." The conversation dropped.
"But you surely have no intention of selling Burleigh?" said Evelyn, anxiously. "I fear I do not know my own mind." "Well," said Cleveland, "here comes your tempter. Lord Doltimore, let me introduce Mr. Maltravers." Lord Doltimore bowed. "Been admiring your horses, Mr. Maltravers. I never saw anything so perfect as the black one; may I ask where you bought him?"
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