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The Earl of Hurstmonceux had not yet been heard from; but the Viscount Vincent had prepared himself with the best defense possible to be got up in his case. Judge Merlin and his witnesses had been duly notified to appear; and they were now in town, lodging at the very house from which the prisoners obtained their recherche meals.
And rising, he took the hand of the stranger and led her to the elder lady, saying: "This is the Countess of Hurstmonceux, madam; I commend her to your care." And having done this, he turned and abruptly left the room and the house.
"And in time I shall be Countess of Hurstmonceux, and perhaps after a while Marchioness of Banff; for Vincent thinks if the Conservatives come in his father will be raised a step in the peerage." "And is it for that you sell yourself? Oh, Claudia, how Satan fools you! Be rational; consider: what is it to be a countess, or even a marchioness?
At half-past nine Judge Merlin, Ishmael Worth, Lady Vincent, and the Countess of Hurstmonceux entered a close carriage and drove to the same place. What a crowd! It is not every day that a woman of high rank stands at the bar of a criminal court to answer to a charge of felony. And Faustina was a woman of high rank, at least by marriage. She was the Honorable Mrs.
When Claudia had exhausted her passion of tears, she looked up and said: "But, papa, you have not been in the drawing room yet? You hare not seen Lady Hurstmonceux?" "No, my dear, I have but just arrived. Claudia, immediately upon my landing I took the first train north, and reached Edinboro' this morning. I sent my party on to Magruder's Hotel and took a fly and drove immediately out here.
As they rode along that pleasant September morning he was pleasing himself with thinking how that intelligent old man, starved all his life for mental food, would delight himself amid the intellectual wealth of his new life. They were approaching the turn-stile at the cross-roads, memorable for the weary watchings of Lady Hurstmonceux.
I have said to my father, 'Let Lord Vincent have justice, though that justice place him in the felon's dock, in the hulks, or on the scaffold. No, I do not believe it would be fair to the community to turn such a man loose upon them." While Lady Hurstmonceux and Lady Vincent conversed in this manner, Judge Merlin drove to Edinboro'.
How deep, how thorough felt the glow Of rapture, kindling out of woe; How exquisite one single drop Of bliss, that sparkling to the top Of misery's cup, is keenly quaffed Though death must follow soon the draught. Moore. The countess was sitting on one of the armchairs near the fire when Claudia led the judge up before her, saying only: "Lady Hurstmonceux, my father."
"How much I thank you, Lady Hurstmonceux, you can never know; because you have never felt what it is to be a stranger in a foreign country, with your fame traduced and not one friend to stand by your side and sustain you," she said. Again that crimson tide swept over the pale face of Berenice; but this time it was for herself, and she answered: "Oh, yes, yes! I have known just that.
Such a friendship is a blessing when it is understood; a curse when it is misapprehended. Ishmael turned the conversation to the subject of the act of restitution proposed by the Earl of Hurstmonceux. Ishmael now possessed the only clear, cool, and undisturbed intelligence of the whole party, who were all more or less shaken by the terrible events of the last few days.
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