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"I am the Countess de Saint Clair," replied Madame Cyprienne, proudly; "but I do not assume the title now. I do not choose it to be known that I live by singing, and by selling the remnants of our family lace." "I hope Lady Essendine paid you a decent price," said the colonel, pleasantly. Madame Cyprienne shook her head, with a little laugh
"Of course you ought; I have often heard Lord Essendine say so." "Has he now, really?" asked Mr. Faulks, much flattered. "Frequently," went on Mrs. Wilders, fluently, availing herself readily of the opening he had given her. "I am sure he has only to know that you are disappointed in this matter and he will give you the warmest support.
McKay and Hyde were brought forward and presented to the Commander-in-Chief. "Mr. McKay, I know your name. You behaved admirably at Inkerman. I have just had a letter, too, about you from England." "About me, my lord?" said Stanislas, astonished. "Yes, from Lord Essendine, your cousin.
No one, Lady Essendine least of all, thought for one moment of her protégée's fatigue, and the poor singer might have worked on till she fainted from exhaustion had not the son of the house interposed. "You must be tired, mademoiselle," said Lord Lydstone, coming up to the piano. "Surely you would like a little refreshment?
Burt and Benham, asking for an interview, and within a day or two saw the senior partner, Mr. Burt. He was blandly sympathetic, but distant. "Allow me to offer my deep condolence, madam; but as this is, I presume, a business visit, may I ask " "I am left in great distress. I wish to appeal to Lord Essendine." "On what grounds?" "My infant son is the next heir."
Some half a dozen years after the occurrences just recorded there was a great gathering one night at Essendine House, a palatial mansion occupying the whole angle of a great London square. The reception-rooms upon the first floor, five of them, and all en suite, and gorgeously decorated in white and gold, were brilliantly lighted and thrown open to the best of London society.
"Quite so; and I am his first cousin once removed." "Ah! that is very nice for you," said old Hyde, with a tinge of contempt in his tone. "They're not much use to you though, these fine relations. Surely Lord Essendine could have got you a commission by holding up his hand?" "That's just what he would not do, and why I hate him and the whole of the Wilders family.
"Poor boy! poor boy!" she said, wringing her hands. "To be cut off like this! It is too terrible! And nothing you are sure nothing can be done to save him?" "Lord Essendine is making the most strenuous efforts; so are we. Even Sir Humphrey Fothergill has been most kind; and the War Minister has repeatedly telegraphed to Lord Raglan to leave no stone unturned." "And all without effect?
"I hope we shall be able to get on without your assistance, Lord Essendine. I thought it my duty to inform you of my marriage, and I think I might have been better received." "Stay, you idiot; don't go off in a huff. I don't like the match, I tell you frankly; but I don't want to quarrel. Is there anything I can do for you, except attending the wedding? I won't do that."
"What is your name?" "McKay Stanislas Anastasius Wilders McKay." "Ah! Stanislas; I understand that. But how is it you were christened Wilders? And Anastasius, too that is a family name, I think. Are you related to Lord Essendine? a Wilders, in fact?" "Yes, sir, by my mother's side." "And yet you have taken the Queen's shilling! Strange! But it is no business of mine. Young scapegrace, I suppose "
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