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Updated: June 22, 2025
He desires me to ask you whether there is any truth in the statement. You will observe that I express no opinion myself whether it be true or false, whether proper or improper. After your conduct the other day I should not think of interfering myself; but your father wishes me to ask for his information. Yours truly, Hampstead's answer was very short, but quite sufficient for the purpose;
As the story of George Roden's birth was thus known to all the Foreign Office, it was probable that Hampstead's prophecy would be altogether fulfilled. The Foreign Office, from top to bottom, was very much moved on the occasion, and not without cause. The title of Di Crinola was quite historic, and had existed for centuries.
During the first and all later visits to London Crabbe was most often their guest at the mansion on the summit of the famous "Northern Height," with which, after Crabbe's death, Wordsworth so touchingly associated his name, in the lines written on the death of the Ettrick Shepherd and his brother-poets: "Our haughty life is crowned with darkness, Like London with its own black wreath, On which with thee, O Crabbe, forth looking, I gazed from Hampstead's breezy heath."
To him all Hampstead's theories were sheer rhodomontade. There was the world, and men had got to live in it as best they might. He intended to do so, and as he liked yachting and liked grouse-shooting, he was very glad to have arranged with Lord Persiflage and his brother Private Secretary, so as to be able to get out of town for the next two months.
The diamonds were known to a stone, and Hampstead's rubies were spoken of almost as freely as though they were being exhibited in public. Lord Llwddythlw when he heard of all this muttered to his maiden sister a wish that a gnome would come in the night and run away with everything. He felt himself degraded by the publicity given to his future wife's ornaments.
All Lord Hampstead's ideas, doings, and ways were disgusting to her. She was a woman full of high-bred courtesy, and had always been gracious to her son-in-law's friends, but it had been with a cold grace. Her heart rejected them thoroughly, as she did him, and, to tell the truth, Lady Frances also.
She would not even bid her think of it once again, as might have been so easy at parting. "I will go into your room while he passes," she said. As she did so Lord Hampstead's voice was heard at the door.
There was, at any rate, that comfort to the poor man that there was no probability of any difference between him and his heir as to the property or as to money. Half-an-hour settled all that. Then came the time which had been arranged for Hampstead's return to his sister. But before he went there were conversations between him and Mr.
But my friend himself set little store on anything that had befallen him in days before he was 'took on as stable-lad at the Castle. His pride was in the Castle, wholly. Part of his charm, like Hampstead's, was in the surprise one had at finding anything like it so near to London.
"It's all according to Hampstead's theories," said one. "Only he'd have had the tinkers and the tailors too," said another. "And wouldn't have had the ladies and gentlemen," said a third.
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