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He was now satisfied with a good-bye at the hall-doors, and he talked ostentatiously of a method that he had to bring Edbury up to the mark. I knew that same loud decreeing talk to be a method on his own behalf of concealing his sensitive resentment at the tone I had adopted: Lady Maria's carriage had gone to fetch her husband from a political dinner.
'What I am I must be, she said, meekly; 'and I cannot quit his service till he's abroad again, or I drop. He has promised me a monument. I don't want it; but it shows his kindness. A letter from Heriot informed me that the affair between Edbury and me was settled: he could not comprehend how. 'What is this new Jury of Honour? Who are the jurymen? he asked, and affected wit.
Lady Edbury smiled to herself; and I experienced the esteem I perceived in her for a masterful manner. A few minutes later my father beckoned me to pay my respects to Graf Kesensky, an ambassador with strong English predilections and some influence among us. He asked me if he was right in supposing I wished to enter Parliament. I said he was, wondering at the interest a foreigner could find in it.
Edbury played his part by leading his poor old victim half way to meet his other most honoured guest, hesitating then and craving counsel whether he was right in etiquette to advance the Dauphin so far. The Dauphin left him mildly to decide the point: he was eminently mild throughout, and seems to have thought himself in good faith surrounded by believers and adherents.
'Was Edbury the one to throw up the marriage? Did he decline it? 'No, was the answer once more. Temple stopped my wrath by catching at me and begging me to listen. 'Edbury was drowned, Richie. 'Overnight? 'No, not overnight. I can tell it all in half-a-dozen words, if you'll be quiet; and I know you're going to be as happy as I am, or I shouldn't trifle an instant.
I don't call it my business to be house dog for a pretty stepmother. But there's talking and nodding, and oh! leave all that: come in and smoke, and let me set you up; and I'll shake your hand. Halloa! I'm hailed. A lady, grasping the veil across her face, beckoned her hand from a closed carriage below. Edbury ran down to her.
I don't call it my business to be house dog for a pretty stepmother. But there's talking and nodding, and oh! leave all that: come in and smoke, and let me set you up; and I'll shake your hand. Halloa! I'm hailed. A lady, grasping the veil across her face, beckoned her hand from a closed carriage below. Edbury ran down to her.
She told us Edbury offered bribes of hundreds and thousands for the captain to let him and Mabel go off in the boat with Kiomi, and then he took to begging to go alone. He tried to rouse the crew. The poor fellow cringed, she says; he threatened to swim off. The captain locked him up.
Says Roy: "It is an admirable and roomy site, but as I am not your enemy, sir, I doubt if I shall often have the opportunity to behold it." Ha! ha! gee! Richmond, you've missed the deucedest good scene ever acted. How could I, after having had an adversary like Prince Otto, call upon a fellow such as Edbury to give me reason for his conduct?
His subordinate helped him to the instrument, and possibly to the plot, but Edbury was the capital offender. The scene of the prank was not in itself so bad as the stuff which a cunning anecdotist could make out of it. Edbury invited my father to a dinner at a celebrated City tavern. The Dauphin of France was announced.
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