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I remember everything, papa; too keenly, too bitterly do I remember all." "You will be prepared to marry Dunroe on Monday next. The affair will be comparatively private. That is to say, we will ask nobody no dejeuner no nonsense. The fewer the better at these matters. Would you wish to see your brother hem I mean Mr. Gray?"
Norton winked both eyes, did the pathetic a bit, then pulled out his pocket handkerchief, and blew his nose up to a point little short of distress itself. In the meantime, Dunroe suddenly left the room without Norton's knowledge, who replied, however, to the last question, under the impression that his lordship was present,
"If this marriage between Miss Gourlay and Lord Dunroe takes place, I shall lose my senses." "Well, in troth," replied Anthony, in his own peculiar manner, "if you don't get more than you appear to be gifted with at present, you won't have much to lose, and that will be one comfort. But how can you expect me to assist you?" "Did you not tell me that the baronet is your puppet?"
Norton, who was a quick and ready fellow, in more senses than one, bowed lowly, and with every mark of the deepest respect; but, at the same time, he certainly started upon a high and a rather hazardous theory to wit, that of a man of consequence, who wished to be considered with respect to Dunroe rather as a patron than a dependent.
Your appearance, however, if made known, will prevent that, and probably cause Dunroe to get out of it; and it is for this reason that I wish to keep your very existence a secret until the marriage is over." "I am willing to do anything, sir," replied worthy Tom, with a very dutiful face, "anything to oblige you, and to fall in with your purposes, provided my own rights are not compromised.
Some few days passed, when Dunroe, having read the papers, the contents of which he did not wish Norton to see, returned them to his father in sullen silence, and then rang his bell, and sent for his worthy associate, that he might avail himself of his better judgment. "Norton," said he, "it is all up with us." "How is that, my lord?"
Dunroe, with as much politeness as he could assume, handed her to the sofa, close to which he drew a chair, and opened the dialogue as follows: "I am sorry to hear that you have not been well, Miss Gourlay. Life, however, is uncertain, and we should always be prepared at least, so says Scripture. All flesh is grass, I think is the expression ahem."
I come supported with proofs sufficient to satisfy you that your title and property cannot descend to your son, Lord Dunroe." "I have no other son, sir," said his lordship, reprovingly. "I do not mean to insinuate that you have, my lord. I only assert that he who is supposed to be the present heir, is not really so at all." "Upon what proofs, sir, do you ground that assertion?"
But don't overdo the thing either. Just assume the part of a young person on whose mind the truth is beginning to open, because Lucy knows now very well that these rapid transitions are suspicious. At all events, you will do the best you can; and if you are here to-morrow say about three o'clock she will see you. "Ever, my dear Dunroe, "Faithfully, your father-in-law that is to be,
"Many thanks, Dunroe; but I really must say that I am neither an impostor nor a cheat; and that if ever a man was true friend and faithful to man, I am that friend to your lordship; not, God knows, because you are a lord, but because you are a far better thing a regular trump.
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