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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.
Lord Doltimore is rich, you will teach him to employ his riches well; he is weak, your intellect will govern him; he is in love, your beauty will suffice to preserve his regard. Ah, we shall be dear friends to the last!" More but to the same effect did this able and crafty villain continue to address to Caroline, whom he alternately soothed, irritated, flattered, and revolted.
Vargrave accompanied them to the stables; and after concealing his ignorance of horseflesh as well as he could, beneath a profusion of compliments on fore-hand, hind-quarters, breeding, bone, substance, and famous points, he contrived to draw Doltimore into the courtyard, while Colonel Legard remained in converse high with the head groom.
"I his intimate friend?" said Doltimore, colouring highly, and in a disdainful accent. "Sir, you are misinformed." "Have you no orders to give, then, my lord?" "None, sir. My presence here is quite useless. Good-day to you, gentlemen." "With whom, then, do the last duties rest?" said the surgeon, turning to Maltravers and De Montaigne. "With the late lord's secretary?
In the desert, one's horse is one's friend. I am almost an Arab myself in these matters." "But talking of sale and barter reminds me of Burleigh," said Cleveland, maliciously. "Lord Doltimore is a universal buyer. He covets all your goods: he will take the house, if he can't have the stables."
"Doltimore has positively fixed, then, to go abroad on your return from Cornwall?" "Positively, to Paris. You can join us at Christmas, I trust?" "I have no doubt of it; and before then I hope that I shall have arranged certain public matters, which at present harass and absorb me even more than my private affairs." "You have managed to obtain terms with Mr.
"Doltimore, I leave Knaresdean to-morrow; you go to London, I suppose? Will you take a little packet for me to the Home Office?" "Certainly, when I go; but I think of staying a few days with Legard's uncle the old admiral; he has a hunting-box in the neighbourhood, and has asked us both over."
"I agree with Miss Merton," said Lord Doltimore, solemnly; "not but what I like the country for three or four months in the year, with good shooting and hunting, and a large house properly filled, independent of one's own neighbourhood: but if I am condemned to choose one place to live in, give me Paris." "Ah, Paris; I never was in Paris. I should so like to travel!" said Caroline.
"Vienna! do you think of going to Vienna?" cried Caroline. "Yes," said Legard. "I hate Paris; any place better than this odious city!" and he moved away. Evelyn's eyes followed him sadly and gravely. She remained by Lady Doltimore's side, abstracted and silent for several minutes. "Oh, it is a voluntary offer of Legard's, Lady Doltimore, believe me, I have used no persuasive arts.
You'll excuse me, you know ha, ha! but we're such old friends! and if Lord Vargrave is coming to stay here, it might be unpleasant to meet you'll excuse me. I took the liberty to tell him he need not be jealous of Mr. Maltravers ha, ha! not a marrying man at all. But I did think Miss Caroline was the attraction you'll excuse me no scandal ha, ha! But, after all, Lord Doltimore must be the man.
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