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I thanked him for getting rid of Edbury, and a touch of remorse pricked me, it is true, on his turning abruptly and saying: 'You see me in my nakedness, Richie. To you and my valet, the heart, the body! He was too sympathetic not to have a keen apprehension of a state of hostility in one whom he loved.
Back with him to the Mint! and, with your permission, we will confiscate the first syllable of his name, while we consign him to oblivion, with a hip, hip, hip, hurrah for Richmond! The cheers responded thunderingly, and were as loud when he answered a 'How 'bout the Dauphin? by saying that it was the Tory hotel, of which he knew nothing. 'A cheer for old Roy! Edbury sang out.
Old Lady Kane, great-aunt of the Marquis of Edbury, was particularly my tormentor, through her plain- spoken comments on my father's legal suit; for I had to listen to her without wincing, and agree in her general contempt of the Georges, and foil her queries coolly, when I should have liked to perform Jorian DeWitt's expressed wish to 'squeeze the acid out of her in one grip, and toss her to the Gods that collect exhausted lemons. She took extraordinary liberties with me.
Lady Edbury threw a flying glance in a mirror: 'The unrighteous you leave to us then? They bandied the weariful shuttlecock of gallantry. I bowed and fled. My excuse was that I had seen Anna Penrhys in an upper tier of boxes, and I made my way to her, doubting how I should be welcomed. 'The happy woman is a German princess, we hear! she set me shivering.
My immediate reflections hit on the Bible lessons Edbury must have had to swallow, and the gaping of the waters when its truths were suddenly and tremendously brought home to him. An odd series of accidents! I thought. Temple continued: 'Heriot held his tongue about it next morning. He was one of the guests, though he had sworn he wouldn't go.
I thought of the squire, Lady Edbury, my aunt, Lady Sampleman, Anna Penrhys, some one or other of his frantic female admirers. But the largeness of the amount, and the channel selected for the payment, precluded the notion that any single person had come to succour him in his imminent need, and, as it chanced, mine.
Lady Edbury 'thought it singular for a German woman of the Blood to be a brunette. They had not much dark mixture among them, particularly in the North. Her name? She had forgotten the name of the princess. My father repeated: 'The Princess Ottilia, Princess of Eppenwelzen- Sarkeld. 'Brunette, you say? 'The purest blonde. 'A complexion? 'A complexion to dazzle the righteous!
He described the dinner given by Edbury at a celebrated City tavern where my father and this so-called Dauphin were brought together. The sense of ridicule enveloped me in suffocating folds, howling sentences of the squire's Boeotian burlesque by fits.
He was the only one who did not retire to the Dauphin's 'chamber of testification, to return convulsed with vinous laughter after gravely inspecting the evidence; for which abstention the Dauphin reproached him violently, in round terms of abuse, challengeing him to go through a similar process. This was the signal for Edbury, Tenby, and some of the rest.
I thought of Lady Edbury; but her income was limited, and her expenditure was not of Lady Sampleman, but it was notorious that she loved her purse as well as my aunt Dorothy, and was even more, in the squire's phrase, 'a petticoated parsimony. Anna Penrhys appeared the likelier, except for the fact that the commencement of the annuity was long before our acquaintance with her.
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