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Mortimer Egerton was taking off his great-coat as he spoke. He stepped out into the narrow hall and hung it up deliberately on the hall pegs there; then he returned to the sitting-room and sat down in the one easy-chair that it possessed, and pulled Bobby in between his knees. 'Let us see what freedom and fatherly care has done for you, he said. 'Now, then, tell your story.
No other chance of repayment appeared open to him. He accepted the offer, and went down to Lansmere. His brother, lately married, was asked to meet him; and there also was Miss Leslie the heiress, whom Lady Lansmere secretly hoped her son Harley would admire, but who had long since, no less secretly, given her heart to the unconscious Egerton.
I will, therefore, diligently try to ascertain if, among the refugees I have met with, lurk those whom you seek; and if so, I will thoughtfully consider how to give you the clew. Meanwhile, not one incautious word to Egerton." "Trust me, I am a woman of the world." Randal now had gained the door. He paused, and renewed carelessly,
"With submission, sir," answered Randal, "I should think that there were other reasons why Lord L'Estrange, whatever be his talents and of these you must be indeed an adequate judge would never do anything in public life." "Ay, and what?" said Egerton, quickly. "First," said Randal, shrewdly, "private life has done too much for him. What could public life give to one who needs nothing?
News just arrived." "I have known it these two hours," said a grey-headed gentleman, speaking without taking his eyes off the newspaper. "There is a cabinet sitting now." "Well I always said so," said Mr Egerton, "our fellows ought to have put down that Convention." "It is deuced lucky," said Mr Berners, "that the Bedchamber business is over, and we are all right.
"But," answered Leonard, "if I grant this, I fear that you have some intention of suffering the votes that your resignation would release to favour Leslie at the expense of Egerton." "What the deuce is Egerton to you?" "Nothing, except through my gratitude to his friend Lord L'Estrange." "Pooh! I will tell you a secret.
You would never have disgraced your family and married a " "Hush!" interrupted Egerton, gently. "Do not make matters worse than they are. Madame di Negra is of high birth in her own country; and if scandal " "Scandal!" cried the squire, shrinking, and turning pale. "Are you speaking of the wife of a Hazeldean?
"The years are nothing, mere dates in an almanac; but the feelings, what can give me back those? the hope, the enthusiasm, the No matter! feelings do not, help men to rise in the world. Egerton's feelings are not too lively. What I might have been, leave it to me to remember; let us talk of the example you set before me, of Audley Egerton."
But more loud and fierce grew the demands of his creditors, now when Egerton had most need of all which respectability and position and belief of pecuniary independence can do to raise the man who has encumbered his arms, and crippled his steps towards fortune. He was threatened with writs, with prison.
"I am to conclude, then, that you wish to bring our accounts to a close. Whenever you will, Levy." "Peste! /mon cher/, you take things coolly. But if our accounts are closed, I fear you will have but little to live upon." EGERTON. "I can continue to live on the salary of a Cabinet Minister." BARON. "Possibly; but you are no longer a Cabinet Minister."
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