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Their wedding was a very quiet affair, and the talk of the village was soon directed from it to the approaching splendours of the union of Miss Gertrude and my Lord Dunoran. The old minutes of the Irish House of Lords can better explain than I the parliamentary process by which all the consequences of the judgment against the late Lord Dunoran were abrogated, as respected his son.
And the matter affecting my Lord Dunoran's innocence, I'm ready to swear, if it can serve his son having been the undesigned cause of some misfortunes to you, my lord, in my lifetime. Lord Dunoran said nothing, he only bowed his head. After my lord and Mr.
'Died on the 4th of August, of a lingering disease, at his lodgings in Florence, whither he had gone for the improvement of his health, Charles Archer, Esq., a gentleman who some three years since gave an exceeding clear evidence against Lord Dunoran, for the murder of Mr. Beauclerc, and was well known at Newmarket.
'Well, what is it about? 'The murder of Mr. Beauclerc, that my Lord Dunoran was tried and found guilty for. 'Why, all very good; but that did not happen in Ireland. 'No. At Newmarket, the "Pied Horse." 'Ay, in England. I know, and that's out of our jurisdiction. 'I don't care.
The latter was, in this respect, the most momentous that the cancelling of the forfeiture which had ruined the Dunoran family depended upon it. 'But are you not forgetting, Sir, said Mr. Attorney in consultation, 'that there's the finding of felo de se against him by the coroner's jury? 'No, Sir, answered the crown solicitor, well pleased to set Mr. Attorney right.
'I told them that he had begged me to see this done, as family affairs made it necessary; 'twas as well to use the event and they did it without difficulty. I do not know how the obituary announcement got into the newspapers it was not my doing and naming him as the evidence in the prosecution of my Lord Dunoran was a great risk, and challenged contradiction, but none came.
Then came some evidence, curious but quite clear, to show that the Charles Archer who had died at Florence was not the Charles Archer who had murdered Beauclerc, but a gentleman who had served in the army, and had afterwards been for two years in Italy, in the employment of a London firm who dealt in works of art, and was actually resident in Italy at the time when the Newmarket murder occurred, and that the attempt to represent him as the person who had given evidence against the late Lord Dunoran was an elaborate and cunning contrivance of the prisoner at the bar.
On being told a second time, however, that the general awaited him at luncheon, he apprehended the meaning of the message, and went down to the parlour forthwith. The general, and my lord Dunoran, and Miss Gertrude, and honest Father Roach, were there; and Aunt Becky being otherwise engaged, could not come.
'The late Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Dunoran. He spoke, as I have said, a little thickly, like a man who had drunk his modicum of liquor. 'You've been drinking, and you dare to mix my my father's name with your drunken dreams and babble you wretched sot! A cloud passed over the moon just then, and Irons darkened, as if about to vanish, like an offended apparition.
'Why, Sir, 'twas this, said Mervyn, and stopped short, not knowing how far even this innocent confidence might compromise Irons. Dangerfield, his head slightly inclined, was disconcertingly silent and attentive. 'I I suspect, resumed Mervyn, 'I suspect, Sir, 'twas perjury, said Mervyn. 'Oh! perjury? I see in the matter of his testimony in that distressing prosecution. My Lord Dunoran hey?
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