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"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 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 first place, there is a Lord Doltimore, whom I knew before you need say nothing about him; in the next there is his new married bride, handsome, dark but you are not well!" "It was the draught from the door; go on, I beseech you, the young lady, the friend, her name?"
"Miss Cameron, the guest of Lady Doltimore, whose house and presence you thus rudely profane, is my affianced bride, affianced with her own consent. Evelyn, beloved Evelyn! mine you are yet; you alone can cancel the bond.
"Indeed!" said Caroline. "Well, I envy you; but is it a sudden resolution?" "Not very." "Do you stay long?" asked Lord Doltimore. "My stay is uncertain." "And you won't let Burleigh in the meanwhile?" "Let Burleigh? No; if it once pass from my hands it will be forever!" Maltravers spoke gravely, and the subject was changed. Lord Doltimore challenged Caroline to chess.
After apologizing briefly for her interference, she stated that Lord Vargrave's marriage with Miss Cameron was now a matter of public notoriety; that it would take place in a few days; that it was observed with suspicion that Miss Cameron appeared nowhere; that she seemed almost a prisoner in her room; that certain expressions which had dropped from Lady Doltimore had alarmed her greatly.
"Lord Vargrave," said Caroline, coldly, "I wished a short conversation with you; and finding you did not come in the morning, I sent you a note an hour ago. Did you receive it?" "No; I have been from home since six o'clock, it is now nine." "Well, then, Vargrave," said Caroline, with a compressed and writhing lip, and turning very pale, "I tremble to tell you that I fear Doltimore suspects.
A pretty story for the newspapers, d -n them! Well, nothing venture, nothing have; I will brave the hazard! Meanwhile, Doltimore is mine; Caroline will rule him, and I rule her. His vote and his boroughs are something, his money will be more immediately useful: I must do him the honour to borrow a few thousands, Caroline must manage that for me.
"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.
"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.
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