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Mortlock, but the fifteen shillings a week which she now earned regularly was a wonderful help to the household purse, and Primrose performed her irksome duties with a cheerful, and even thankful heart. Her anxieties about Daisy were almost laid to rest. Since the child had been moved to Miss Egerton's house she seemed quite a changed creature.
This much, however, I will say to content you: I promise that I will do nothing that shall render me unworthy of Mr. Audley Egerton's friendship, or which his fine sense of honour shall justify him in blaming. Let that satisfy you." "Ah, my Lord," cried Mr.
Leslie! you too a client of Baron Levy's, a very useful, accommodating man." Randal stared and stammered. "I come in haste from the House of Commons on Mr. Egerton's business. Don't you hear the newspaper vendors crying out 'Great News, Dissolution of Parliament'?" "We are prepared. Levy himself consents to give us the aid of his talents. Kindly, obliging, clever person!"
Here the conversation had broken off; but the next time Randal was led to visit the squire he had formally asked Egerton's consent, who, after a moment's hesitation, had as formally replied, "I have no objection."
Egerton's fortune comes from his wife, from my family, from a Leslie, not from a Hazeldean." Lady Frederick turned sharply, looked at Randal's countenance with more attention than she had yet vouchsafed to it, and tried to talk of the Leslies. Randal was very short there. An hour afterwards, Randal, who had not danced, was still in the refreshment-room, but Lady Frederick had long quitted him.
Ten minutes afterwards I heard the rain beating against the windows, and knew that it had set in for a wet night. 'Mrs. Darrell will not be able to go far, I thought. I sat by the bedside for some time thinking of what I had heard. It was something to have had so strong a proof of Angus Egerton's loyalty to my dear girl; and assured of that, I did not fear Mrs. Darrell's malice.
But he did not even blush because he had forgotten. Many of Hugh Egerton's best moments during the last six years had been spent in dreams. In those dreams the past had lived again; for he had seen the future as once he had hoped it might be for him. But all through this night of Christmas Eve he lay awake; and no dreams had ever been as half as sweet as the thoughts that came to him then.
If we could manage to conceal the real name of the purchaser for a year or so, it might be easy, you may be supposed to have speculated in the Funds; or Egerton may die, and people may believe that he had secured to you something handsome from the ruins of his fortune." "Little chance of Egerton's dying." "Humph!" said the baron. "However, this is a mere detail, reserved for consideration.
Dinsmore, she yet pleaded Egerton's cause, urging that it seemed very unfair in Elsie to condemn him unheard, very hard not to allow him even so much as a parting word. "I had no choice," Elsie said again and again, in a voice full of tears; "it was papa's command, and I could do nothing but obey.
Egerton's private fortune must be large, I take for granted," said Randal, carelessly. "It ought to be, if he has time to look to it." Here they passed by the hotel in which lodged the Count di Peschiera. Randal stopped. "Will you excuse me for an instant? As we are passing this hotel, I will just leave my card here." So saying he gave his card to a waiter lounging by the door.
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