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I trust to you for looking to it, Lambourne, says his lordship, and you must bring back my signet from him peremptorily." "Ay," replied Varney, "said he so, indeed? You know all, then?" "All all; and you were as wise to make a friend of me while the weather is fair betwixt us." "And was there no one present," said Varney, "when my lord so spoke?" "Not a breathing creature," replied Lambourne.
Varney, farewell! we shall meet where there are none to come betwixt us." So saying, he turned round and departed through the postern door. But he glared darkly as he disappeared, and then addressed Lambourne. "Art thou a comrade of Foster's, good fellow?" "Sworn friends, as the haft is to the knife," replied Michael Lambourne. "Here is a broad piece for thee.
So let go the woman: or I'll knock your brains out with my keys." "I'll make a blood-pudding of thy midriff first," answered Lambourne, laying his left hand on his dagger, but still detaining the Countess by the arm with his right. "So have at thee, thou old ostrich, whose only living is upon a bunch of iron keys."
"What the devil's noise is this in the ward?" he said. "What! man and woman together in the same cell? that is against rule. I will have decency under my rule, by Saint Peter of the Fetters!" "Get thee downstairs, thou drunken beast," said Lambourne; "seest thou not the lady and I would be private?"
But ten miles of their journey had been measured ere he heard the hasty clatter of horse's hoofs behind him, and was overtaken by Michael Lambourne. Fretted as he was with his absence, Varney received his profligate servant with a rebuke of unusual bitterness. "Drunken villain," he said, "thy idleness and debauched folly will stretch a halter ere it be long, and, for me, I care not how soon!"
Michael Lambourne soon let Tressilian know that he suspected other motives than simple curiosity had led him, a gentleman of birth and breeding, into the company of such a scant-of-grace as himself, and owned that he expected both pleasure and profit from his visit. They found the gate open, and passed up an avenue overshadowed by old trees, untrimmed for many years.
They had just traversed this garden of the sluggard, and were within a few steps of the door of the mansion, when Lambourne had ceased speaking; a circumstance very agreeable to Tressilian, as it saved him the embarrassment of either commenting upon or replying to the frank avowal which his companion had just made of the sentiments and views which induced him to come hither.
But as he attempted to draw his sword for this doughty purpose, Michael Lambourne was seized upon by the tapster and the chamberlain, and conveyed to his own apartment, there to sleep himself sober at his leisure.
So saying, he gave his horse the spur, and proceeded on his journey, while Varney rode back to Cumnor by the public road, avoiding the park. The latter alighted at the door of the bonny Black Bear, and desired to speak with Master Michael Lambourne, That respectable character was not long of appearing before his new patron, but it was with downcast looks.
"Make way, sir," said Tressilian, unable to bridle his indignation, "you have had your fee." "Um!" said Lambourne, giving place, however, while he sulkily muttered between his teeth, repeating Tressilian's words, "Make way and you have had your fee; but it matters not, I will spoil no sport, as I said before. I am no dog in the manger mind that."
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