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Edbury acted the part of informant to the inquisitive harridan: 'Her poor dear good-for-nothing Edbury! whose only cure would be a nice, well-conducted girl, an heiress. She had cast her eye on Anna Penrhys, but considered her antecedents doubtful. Spotless innocence was the sole receipt for Edbury's malady.
After twenty years of slighting her, did I fancy she would turn to me and throw a man over in reward of my ultimate recovery of my senses? or fancy that one so tenacious as she had proved would snap a tie depending on her pledged word? She liked Edbury; she saw the best of him, and liked him. The improved young lord was her handiwork.
Edbury acted the part of informant to the inquisitive harridan: 'Her poor dear good-for-nothing Edbury! whose only cure would be a nice, well-conducted girl, an heiress. She had cast her eye on Anna Penrhys, but considered her antecedents doubtful. Spotless innocence was the sole receipt for Edbury's malady.
I put my name to a bond for several thousand pounds, in conjunction with Lord Edbury, thinking my father right in wishing to keep my cheque-book unworried, lest the squire should be seized with a spasm of curiosity before the two months were over. 'I promise you I surprise him, my father said repeatedly. He did not say how: I had the suspicion that he did not know.
'Without a moment of hesitation, my dear boy, he melted me by answering. 'You believe you have received a bribe? 'That is my entire belief the sole conclusion I can arrive at. I will tell you, Richie: the old Marquis of Edbury once placed five thousand pounds to my account on a proviso that I should neglect, is the better word, my Case.
He seems to have been succeeding, but the captain stepped on board and he treated Edbury as he did us two: he made him take the voyage for discipline's sake and "his soul's health." 'How do you know all this, Temple? 'You know your friend Kiomi was one of the party. The captain sent her back on shore because he had no room for her.
'Gad, old gentleman, I've half a mind to ride you down, said Edbury, and, espying me, challenged me to a race to run down the fogies. A cavalcade of six abreast came cantering along. I saw my father listen to a word from Lady Edbury, and push his horse to intercept the marquis. They spoke.
She accused my father of coming direct from 'that person's' box. He replied that he never forsook old friends. 'You should, was her rejoinder. It suggested to me an image of one of the sister Fates cutting a thread. My heart sank when, from Lady Edbury too, I heard the allusion to Germany and its princess. 'Some one told me she was dark? 'Blonde, my father corrected the report.
He said something to Janet that betrayed him, for she had not seen him since. 'How betrayed him? said I. 'Why, said Temple, 'of course it was Heriot who put Edbury in Kiomi's hands. Edbury wouldn't have known of Mabel's sailing, or known the vessel she was in, without her help.
You find me in full sail on the tide. I am at home, if our fortunes demand it, in a little German principality, but there is, he threw out his chest, 'a breadth in London; nowhere else do I breathe with absolute freedom so largely: and this is my battlefield. By the way, Lady Edbury accounts you complete; which is no more to say than that she is a woman of taste.
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