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Fitzherbert, who always tells his friends at home what they are doing, instead of what he is doing, which is what they want to know. Yesterday we dined for the last time, alas! this season with excellent Benjamin Delessert.
That is why he is so elated. He hath been here nearly this three months back; he hath visited Mr. FitzHerbert nigh every day; he hath cajoled him, he hath threatened him; he hath worn out his spirit by the gaol and the stinking food and the loneliness; and he hath prevailed, as he hath prevailed with many another. And the end of it all is that Mr. FitzHerbert hath yielded yet not openly.
Simpson, sir, of the sport we were to have to-day, and he seemed to care nothing about it!" Robin sighed aloud. "I suppose so," he said. "Mr. John looked well, sir," pursued Dick, and proceeded to speak at length of the FitzHerbert troubles, and the iniquities of the Queen's Grace.
And then, on a sudden, Anthony himself opened on a matter that was at least cognate. "I was hearing to-day from Mr. Thomas FitzHerbert that his uncle would be let out again of the Fleet soon to collect his fines." "He will go to Norbury?" asked Robin. "He will come to Padley, too, it is thought.
Next he had learned that the Catholic religion was at present blown upon by many persons in high position; that pains and penalties lay upon all who adhered to it. Sir Thomas FitzHerbert, for instance, lay now in the Fleet in London on that very account.
Is it meant that a person arraigned for high treason may tender evidence to prove that the Sovereign has married a Papist? Would Whistlewood, for example, have been entitled to an acquittal, if he could have proved that King George the Fourth had married Mrs. Fitzherbert, and that Mrs. Fitzherbert was a Papist? It is not easy to believe that any tribunal would have gone into such a question.
Under the date of March 31, 1837, Charles Greville writes: "Among the many old people who have been cut off by this severe weather, one of the most remarkable is Mrs. Fitzherbert, who died at Brighton at above eighty years of age.
Brighton was a dangerous place for persons in our situation; there was the Prince of Wales, our present King, living with Mrs. Fitzherbert, in the most open and public manner; this was an example too likely to have a baneful effect upon two persons so doatingly fond of each other, that the very idea of being parted, produced almost a momentary madness. Such was the result of platonic affection.
Let it be said, however, for the Prince Regent, that underneath his royalty and his sybaritism, there was, at first, something of a better and higher nature, which at last was entirely stifled by them. His love for Mrs. Fitzherbert was not merely sensual, and Heliogabalus would not have been amused by the novels of Miss Austen.
He appeared in the great hall an hour before dinner-time, as the tables were being set, and sent a servant for Mistress Manners. "Hark you!" he said; "you need not rouse the whole house. It is with Mistress Manners alone that my business lies." He broke off, as Mrs. FitzHerbert looked over the gallery. "Mr. Biddell!" she cried. He shook his head, but he seemed to speak with some difficulty.
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