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He had come from the camp before Nymegen in order to attend the conference with the state-council at Arnheim, and he would then be ready and anxious to, despatch Heneage to England, to learn her Majesty's final determination.
The greatest care had been taken, however, that the affair should be delicately handled, for Heneage, while, doing as much hurt by honesty as, others by naughtiness, had modified his course as much as he dared in deference to the opinions of the Earl himself, and that of his English counsellors.
"And yet I am tempted to give you another little commission, if it is not taking up too much of your time, and presuming too much on your good-nature," said he, a bright idea having just struck him. "Mrs Mason lives in Heneage Place, does not she? My mother's ancestors lived there; and once, when the house was being repaired, she took me in to show me the old place.
Heneage accepted a chair and spoke of the performance. The conversation became general and of stereotyped form. Yet Wrayson was uneasily conscious of something underneath it all which he could not fathom. The atmosphere of the box was charged with some electrical disturbance. Heneage alone seemed thoroughly at his ease.
"Content," murmured, half rising, an elegant young man, with a face like a page, who little thought that he was to be ancestor to the Marquises of Hertford. "My Lord John Leveson, Baron Gower," continued the Clerk. This Baron, from whom were to spring the Dukes of Sutherland, rose, and, as he reseated himself, said "Content." The Clerk went on. "My Lord Heneage Finch, Baron Guernsey."
Leicester's Letters to his Friends Paltry Conduct of the Earl to Davison He excuses himself at Davison's Expense His Letter to Burghley Effect of the Queen's Letters to the States Suspicion and Discontent in Holland States excuse their Conduct to the Queen Leicester discredited in Holland Evil Consequences to Holland and England Magic: Effect of a Letter from Leicester The Queen appeased Her Letters to the States and the Earl She permits the granted Authority Unhappy Results of the Queen's Course Her variable Moods She attempts to deceive Walsingham Her Injustice to Heneage His Perplexity and Distress Humiliating Position of Leicester His melancholy Letters to the Queen He receives a little Consolation And writes more cheerfully The Queen is more benignant The States less contented than the Earl His Quarrels with them begin.
It was a pity that a dark cloud was so soon again to sweep over the scene: For the temper of Elizabeth at this important juncture seemed as capricious: as the: April weather in which the scenes were enacting. We have seen the genial warmth of her letters and messages to Leicester, to Heneage, to the States-General; on the first of the month.
"The letters just brought in," wrote Heneage to Burghley, "have well relieved a most noble and sufficient servant, but I fear they will not restore the much-repaired wrecks of these far-decayed noble countries into the same state I found them in. A loose, disordered, and unknit state needs no shaking, but propping.
A subtle and fearful kind of people should not be made more distrustful, but assured." He then expressed annoyance at the fault already found with him, and surely if ever man had cause to complain of reproof administered him, in quick succession; for not obeying contradictory directions following upon each other as quickly, that man was Sir Thomas Heneage.
Heneage, who was leaning back in his chair, looking into the fire with half closed eyes, straightened himself, and turned directly towards his companion. "How much do you know about the Baroness de Sturm?" he asked. "Nothing at all," Wrayson answered. "I met her for the first time to-night." Heneage looked back into the fire. "Ah!" he murmured. "I thought that it might be so.
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