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He has had an offer for the property, which is only L1000 short of what he asks. A city alderman, called Jobson, is the bidder; a man, it seems, of large means and few words. The alderman has fixed the date on which he must have a definite answer; and that date falls on the th, two days after that fixed for the poll at Lansmere.
For in this town so dependent on agriculture we are opposed by a low and sordid manufacturer, of the most revolutionary notions, who has, moreover, the audacity to force his own nephew that very boy whom I chastised for impertinence on your village green, son of a common carpenter actually the audacity, I say, to attempt to force this peasant of a nephew, as well as himself, into the representation of Lansmere, against the earl's interest, against your distinguished brother, of myself I say nothing.
"Now, what I want to propose is this: Don't let the Lansmere interest be beaten; it would vex the old earl, go to his heart, I am sure." Harley nodded. "And the Lansmere interest need not be beaten, if you'll put up another man instead of this red-tapist. Why not? Now, there 's a smart youth, connection of Mr. Egerton's, Randal Leslie. I have no objection to him, though he is of your colours.
I knew lords, and physicked them too, when I was a blundering allopathist. There was the Earl of Lansmere, has had many a blue pill from me, sinner that I was. His son was wiser; never would take physic. Very clever boy was Lord L'Estrange " "Lord L'Estrange! that name begins with Les " "Stuff! He's always abroad, shows his sense. I'm going abroad too.
But is not there a new man much talked of at White's?" "I don't belong to White's." "Nevertheless, you may have heard of him, a foreigner, a Count di Peschiera." "Yes," said Lord Lansmere; "he was pointed out to me in the Park, a handsome man for a foreigner; wears his hair properly cut; looks gentlemanlike and English." "Ah, ah! He is here then!" and Harley rubbed his hands.
From him she had learned that Nora Avenel had returned to her father's house late on the previous evening, had been seized with brain fever, and died in a few hours. Audley listened, and turned to the door, still in silence. Lady Lansmere caught him by the arm. "Where are you going? Ah, can I now ask you to save my son from the awful news, you yourself the sufferer?
The day was fine. Lady Lansmere proposed to walk in the garden. While the ladies went up-stairs for their shawls and bonnets, Harley lighted his cigar, and stepped from the window upon the lawn. Lady Lansmere joined him before the girls came out. "Harley," said she, taking his arm, "what a charming companion you have introduced to us!
Either Avenel or his nephew, it is true, must come in; but not both. Two parvenus aspiring to make a family seat of an earl's borough! Bah! too absurd!" Very odd that he should stand against the Lansmere interest." "Ambition, /mon cher/. You yourself are under some obliga tions to Mr. Egerton. Yet, in reality, he has more to apprehend from you than from Mr. Fairfield."
Audley, in the remorseful tenderness he felt for his injured friend, had induced L'Estrange towards evening to leave the Park, and go into a district some miles off, on pretence that he required Harley's aid there to canvass certain important outvoters: the change of scene might rouse him from his reveries. Harley himself was glad to escape from the guests at Lansmere. He readily consented to go.
The vacancy created in the borough of Lansmere by Audley Egerton's death was filled up by our old acquaintance, Haveril Dashmore, who had unsuccessfully contested that seat on Egerton's first election. The naval officer was now an admiral, and perfectly reconciled to the Constitution, with all its alloy of aristocracy. Dick Avenel did not retire from parliament so soon as he had anticipated.
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