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"But in this instance it would suit me, and I really think it would suit you too, that you should be as little at Hartlebury as possible. You have said you would go there, and of course you will go. But if I were you, I would not stay above a day or two." Mr Plantagenet Palliser received everything he had in the world from his uncle.
We certainly shall not leave Hartlebury before that." "Ah, yes. You stay for the hunting." "Yes; Lord Dumbello always remains here through March. He may run up to town for a day or two." "How comfortable! I must be in London on Thursday, you know." "When Parliament meets, I suppose?" "Exactly. It is such a bore; but one has to do it." "When a man makes a business of it, I suppose he must."
'Hartlebury Church is not above a quarter of a mile from Hartlebury Castle, and yet that quarter of a mile Hurd always travelled in his episcopal coach, with his servants in full-dress liveries; and when he used to go from Worcester to Bristol Hot Wells, he never moved without a train of twelve servants. Hurd has left us a very short memoir of his own life; but short as the memoir is, it gives us a curious insight into one side of his character.
Of all men in the world he was the least likely to spite his own face by cutting off his own nose; and, for the rest of it, Mr Palliser would take his chance. Therefore he went down to Hartlebury early in February, having fully determined to be very particular in his attentions to Lady Dumbello.
There was room by her on the couch, and once or twice, at Hartlebury, he had ventured so to seat himself. On the present occasion, however, he could not do so without placing himself manifestly on her dress. She would have known how to fill a larger couch even than that, as she would have known, also, how to make room, had it been her mind to do so.
Dud was among those so taken, and he was first carried to Hartlebury Castle and thence to Worcester, where he was imprisoned. Recounting the sufferings of himself and his followers on this occasion, in the petition presented to Charles II. in 1660, he says, "200 men were dispersed, killed, and some taken, namely, Major Harcourt, Major Elliotts, Capt.
She would have said, indeed, she often had said, to the archdeacon that Griselda's religious principles were too firmly fixed to be moved by outward worldly matters; signifying, it may be, her conviction that that teaching of Plumstead Episcopi had so fastened her daughter into a groove, that all the future teaching of Hartlebury would not suffice to undo the fastenings.
But, nevertheless, during the first week of his stay at Hartlebury, he did not say a word to her more tender than his observation about the weather. It is true that he was very busy. He had undertaken to speak upon the address, and as Parliament was now about to be opened, and as his speech was to be based upon statistics, he was full of figures and papers.
He began to doubt whether a country house, where all the people were thrown together, was the best place in the world for such manoeuvring. Lady Dumbello was very handsome, and he liked to look at her, but he could not find any subject on which to interest her in that drawing-room at Hartlebury.
Her brother Henry she would be glad to meet, and hoped to make some arrangement with him for a short visit to Hartlebury, her husband's place in Shropshire, as to which latter hint, it may, however, be at once said, that nothing further was spoken after the Crawley alliance had been suggested.
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