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"No," said my uncle, smiling; "Nature had done every thing for this spot when I came to it, but one, and the addition of that one ornament is the only real triumph which art ever can achieve." "What is it?" asked I; "oh, I know water." "You are mistaken," answered Lord Glenmorris; "it is the ornament of happy faces." I looked up to my uncle's countenance in sudden surprise.
God knows what he meant; I am sure the House did not, for they turned me out, and declared Mr. Lufton duly elected. Never was there such a commotion in the Glenmorris family before. My uncle was seized with the gout in his stomach, and my mother shut herself up with Tremaine, and one China monster, for a whole week.
I was sitting in the library of Glenmorris Castle, about a week after all the bustle of contest and the eclat of victory had began to subside, and quietly dallying with the dry toast, which constituted then, and does to this day, my ordinary breakfast, when I was accosted by the following speech from my uncle. "Henry, your success has opened to you a new career: I trust you intend to pursue it?"
"Rather distingue than handsome," was the unsatisfactory reply, couched in a slow, pompous accent, which I immediately recognized to belong to Lady Harriett Garrett. "Can we make something of him?" resumed the first voice. "Something!" said Lady Harriett, indignantly; "he will be Lord Glenmorris! and he is son to Lady Frances Pelham."
My uncle wrote to me, three weeks since, announcing the death of the infant Lady Glenmorris had brought him. Sincerely do I wish that his loss may be supplied. I have already sufficient fortune for my wants, and sufficient hope for my desires. Thornton died as he had lived the reprobate and the ruffian.
You are to return immediately to England, and come down to his house in shire. It is supposed you will have some contest, but be certain eventually to come in. "You will also, in this visit to Lord Glenmorris, have an excellent opportunity of securing his affection; you know it is some time since he saw you, and the greater part of his property is unentailed.
To return for if I have any fault, it is too great a love for abstruse speculation and reflection I was formally ushered through a great hall, hung round with huge antlers and rusty armour, through a lesser one, supported by large stone columns, and without any other adornment than the arms of the family; then through an anti-room, covered with tapestry, representing the gallantries of King Solomon to the Queen of Sheba; and lastly, into the apartment honoured by the august presence of Lord Glenmorris.
Upon receiving this letter, I was sensibly affected with my uncle's kindness; and so far from repining at his choice, I most heartily wished him every blessing it could afford him, even though an heir to the titles of Glenmorris were one of them.
You are to return immediately to England, and come down to his house in shire. It is supposed you will have some contest, but be certain eventually to come in. "You will also, in this visit to Lord Glenmorris, have an excellent opportunity of securing his affection; you know it is some time since he saw you, and the greater part of his property is unentailed.
Lord Glenmorris was pleased with the compliment, simple as it was. "Yes," said he, "it is, and I have made it still more so than you have yet been able to perceive." "You have been planting, probably, on the other side of the park?"
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