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THE BARON. "Inflexible and ungracious, favour or not put it as you will I accede, provided, first, that you allow me to draw up a fresh deed, which will accomplish your part of the compact; and secondly, that we saddle the proposed delay with the condition that you do not lose your election." EGERTON. "Agreed. Have you anything further to say?"
How lucky it was that I should turn in here. Not like me either, for I don't much care for a ducking. Staying in town, Randal?" "Yes; at your uncle's, Mr. Egerton. I have left Oxford." "For good?" "For good." "But you have not taken your degree, I think? We Etonians all considered you booked for a double-first. Oh, we have been so proud of your fame, you carried off all the prizes."
This gentleman spoke much about the Constitution, something about Greece and Rome; compared Egerton with William Pitt, also with Aristides; and sat down, after an oration esteemed classical by the few, and pronounced prosy by the many. Audley's seconder, a burly and important maltster, struck a bolder key.
Dinsmore, haughtily, and Egerton turned and strode angrily away. "There, Elsie, you see what he is; his behavior is anything but gentlemanly," remarked her father, opening the gate for her to pass in. "But you need not tremble so, child; there is nothing to fear." Oh, what a feeble fort's a woman's heart, Betrayed by nature, and besieged by art.
But this change had been more marked since that last interview with Helen which has been recorded. There was a compressed, resolute firmness in the lips, a decided character in the brow. To the indolent, careless grace of his movements had succeeded a certain indescribable energy, as quiet and self-collected as that which distinguished the determined air of Audley Egerton himself.
Good-day." RANDAL. "Are you going to Madame di Negra's? Shall I not accompany you? Perhaps I may be able to back your own remonstrances." EGERTON. "No, I shall not require you." RANDAL. "I trust I shall hear the result of your interview? I feel so much interested in it. Poor Frank!" Audley nodded. "Of course, of course."
Harley privately paid out of his own fortune the L5,000 Egerton had bequeathed to Leslie; perhaps not sorry, now that the stern duty of exposing the false wiles of the schemer was fulfilled, to afford some compensation even to the victim who had so richly deserved his fate; and pleased, though mournfully, to comply with the solemn request of the friend whose offence was forgotten in the remorseful memory of his own projects of revenge.
"I thought so. And part of his hope was that I should help you to it," he added bitterly. "But I have hoped and prayed every day since that God would lead you to it. Have you decided yet?" Donald's voice was not quite steady. "I have. A man surely does not need a second lesson such as I have had to show him the way." John Egerton held out his hand again. "I am very, very glad," he said earnestly.
I regret my unlucky quotation yet the more, since the wit of your retort has obliged you to identify yourself with Marmion, who, though a clever and brave fellow, was an uncommonly tricky one." And so Harley, certainly having the best of it, moved on, and joined Egerton, and in a few minutes more both left the room. "What was L'Estrange saying to you?" asked Frank.
"Leonard," said he, gently, "your hour is come at last." Audely Egerton was alone in his apartment. A heavy sleep had come over him, shortly after Harley and Randal had left the house in the early morning; and that sleep continued till late in the day.
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