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Hunsden speaking low and deep, for we had now entered a busier street desired me to hold my peace, threatening to do something dreadful if I stimulated his wrath further by boasting. I laughed till my sides ached. We soon reached his hotel; before he entered it, he said "Don't be vainglorious.
I should like to know their names." "The Seacombes." "Stuff! I have cut them." Hunsden looked at me incredulously. "I have," said I, "and that definitively." "You must mean they have cut you, William." "As you please.
How many men," he asked, "are required for garrisons in all the fortresses and cities, and for the field?" "But," interposed Lord Hunsden, "not half so many men are needed in the garrisons; for the burghers ought to be able to defend their own cities. Moreover it is probable that your ordinary contributions might be continued and doubled and even tripled."
"Ingenious," remarked Hunsden; "whether true or not is another question. Meantime, don't you feel your little lamp of a spirit wax very pale, beside such a girandole as Lucia's?" "Yes." "Candid, at least; and the Professor will soon be dissatisfied with the dim light you give?" "Will you, monsieur?" "My sight was always too weak to endure a blaze, Frances," and we had now reached the wicket.
"You think, then, Mr. Hunsden, that patrician descent may be read in a distinctive cast of form and features?" "Patrician descent be hanged! Who doubts that your lordlings may have their 'distinctive cast of form and features' as much as we shire tradesmen have ours? But which is the best? Not theirs assuredly.
What English guests Hunsden invites, are all either men of Birmingham or Manchester hard men, seemingly knit up in one thought, whose talk is of free trade. The foreign visitors, too, are politicians; they take a wider theme European progress the spread of liberal sentiments over the Continent; on their mental tablets, the names of Russia, Austria, and the Pope, are inscribed in red ink.
Hunsden himself tolerated the drivelling theorists; with the practical men he seemed leagued hand and heart. He has a philanthropic motive for coming to smoke his cigar in our porch on summer evenings; he says he does it to kill the earwigs amongst the roses, with which insects, but for his benevolent fumigations, he intimates we should certainly be overrun.
Frances curtsied with sedate grace, looking, as she always did, when one first accosted her, more a woman to respect than to love; I introduced Mr. Hunsden, and she expressed her happiness at making his acquaintance in French.
Some people, however indifferent they may become after a considerable space of absence, always contrive to leave a pleasant impression just at parting; not so Hunsden, a conference with him affected one like a draught of Peruvian bark; it seemed a concentration of the specially harsh, stringent, bitter; whether, like bark, it invigorated, I scarcely knew.
I should have sacrificed my own comfort and not have gained their patronage in return." "Very likely so you calculated your wisest plan was to follow your own devices at once?" "Exactly. I must follow my own devices I must, till the day of my death; because I can neither comprehend, adopt, nor work out those of other people." Hunsden yawned.
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