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When I descended to the breakfast-room, I found the whole family assembled in a group around Lord Kilkee, who had just returned from a distant part of the county, where he had been canvassing the electors, and spouting patriotism the day before.
Before I had time for another question Kilkee passed his arm within mine, and led me along the corridor, pouring out, the entire time a whole rhapsody about the practical joke of my late illness, which he was pleased to say would ring from one end of Europe to the other. Lord Callonby was alone in the breakfast-room when we entered, and the moment he perceived me called out,
I suspected that his Lordship read in my partial defence of Kilkee, a slight attempt to prop up my own case, and felt confused and embarrassed beyond measure at the detection. "Well, we shall have time enough for all this. Now let us hear something of my old friend Sir Guy. How is he looking?" "I am unfortunately unable to give you any account of him.
Lorrequer," said Lady Callonby rising, "get Smith's book there, and let me have your arm; and now, young ladies, come along, and learn something, if you can." "An admirable proviso," said Lord Kilkee, laughing; "if his botany be only as authentic as the autographs he gave Mrs. MacDermot, and all of which he wrote himself, in my dressing-room, in half an hour.
Just at this instant, Kilkee caught my eye, and rushing over from his place beside his partner, shook me by both hands, saying, "Delighted to see you here Lorrequer, but as I can't stay now, promise to sup with me to-night at the 'Cross'." I accepted of course, and the next instant, he was whirling along in his waltze, with one of the most lovely German girls I ever saw.
Lorrequer is a false man then," said Lady Catherine, "for he said at breakfast, that we should devote this afternoon to the chalk caves as the tide will be so far out, we can see them all perfectly." "And I," said Lord Kilkee, "must put in my plea, that the aforesaid Mr. Lorrequer is booked for a coursing match 'Mouche versus Jessie. Guilty or not guilty?" Lady Jane alone of all said not a word.
"Why, man, by Jove, this will kill me," said Lord Callonby, bursting into a fit of laughter, in which Kilkee, a hitherto silent spectator of our colloquy, joined to such an extent, that I thought he should burst a bloodvessel. "Why man, you went as the Charge d'Affaires." "I, the Charge d'Affaires!" "That you did, and a most successful debut you made of it."
A moment more, and I must have inevitably given way to a burst of laughter, when what was my horror to hear the priest present me to the company as their "excellent, worthy, generous, and patriotic young landlord, Lord Kilkee.
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