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"Oh," said Hallam slowly. She stood silent, the colour racing through her cheeks. She could not, in the same breath, ask Hallam to release her. It was impossible. Nothing on earth could prevent his believing that it was because she wished to marry Berkley. And she was never to marry Berkley. She knew it, now. "Who is this Private Ormond, anyway?" asked Hallam, handsome eyes bent curiously on her.
In 1780 the number of members was enlarged to forty which is still the limit. "The Club" has always maintained its distinction, and a recent article in the Edinburgh Review records that fifteen Prime Ministers have been members of it, as well as men like Scott, Tennyson, Hallam, Macaulay and Grote.
He cared little for that, so long as he knew his course to be right. Looking further afield he saw that a like condition of things existed all over the West, and was the inspiration of much greater undertakings than those of the merchants and shopkeepers. He used often to talk of these things with Hallam. "You're quite right," said that sagacious financier.
So between these two there was always an outward semblance of peace, even when war was on between them, and it frequently happened that they were closely associated in enterprises too large for either to conduct so well alone. On the night of the ball, Hallam took Duncan aside and said to him: "I wish you'd take the seven o'clock train this morning and go up to the mines for a few days.
Hallam, the son of a Dean of Bristol, educated at Eton and Christ Church, an early Edinburgh reviewer, and an honoured pundit and champion of the Whig party, possessing also great literary tastes, much industry, and considerable faculty both of judging and writing, united almost all the qualifications for a high reputation; while his abstinence from public affairs, and from participation in the violent half-personal, half-political squabbles which were common among the literary men of his day, freed him from most of the disadvantages, while retaining for him all the advantages, of party connections.
Then he went to Cambridge, and for three years Elizabeth did not see him. It had been arranged, however, that the whole family should meet at Hallam on the anniversary of his majority, and the occurrence was celebrated with every public festivity that had always attended that event in the Hallam family. There was nothing to dim the occasion.
"That is all, I think, and I can get a train if I start at once," he said. "If you should require help to extend your farm or improve your stock, I should be glad if you would apply to me." "I'm afraid your interest is too high," Kit rejoined with a smile, and Hallam bowed to the others and went out. When he had gone, Osborn turned to Kit, who gave Mrs. Osborn the cancelled bill.
Go in at once, and I will tell him that quietness is necessary to you." Deringham had almost yielded to the hand upon his arm when Hallam glanced in their direction and signed to him. Then he shook off the girl's grasp and she shivered a little for no apparent reason as they went in together. There was nobody else about, for Mrs.
He knew they'd all done something or other to make the first page, but his guesses were kind of wide. "I would like to see Private Ben, though," says F. Hallam. "Must be an interesting chap." "He is," says Mr. Robert. "His scrap books are interesting, too. He has ten of them." "By Jove!" says Hallam. "Good idea. I must tell Myrtle about that."
Above all, one cannot read a page without remembering that there were living then in England at least a dozen men who could have done it better, Grote, Thirlwall, Mitford, Arnold, Hallam, Milman, Lingard, Palgrave, Turner, Roscoe, Carlyle, Macaulay, to mention only the most prominent, and mention them at random, were all alive and of man's estate, and probably scores who could have done it nearly or quite as well; while there was not one single man living, in England or in the world, who was capable of doing the work which Scott, if not as capable as ever, was still capable of doing like no one before and scarcely any one after him.
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