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I have a right to serve any of that family." Leonard looked at him in surprise "For," continued Harley, recovering himself, "they always served my family; and my recollections of Lansmere, though boyish, are indelible."
Not in those days had mankind ever heard of a sanitary reform! and, to judge of the slow progress which that reform seems to make, sewer and drain would have been much the same if they had. Scot-and-lot voters were the independent electors of Lansmere, with the additional franchise of Freemen.
Yet she looked so at home perhaps so at home she felt! more certainly than she had yet learned to do in that stiff stately house in which she was soon to have a daughter's rights. Was she suddenly made aware of this, that she so suddenly arose, and with a look of alarm and distress on her face. "But we are keeping Lady Lansmere too long," she said falteringly.
"I believe the Avenels have only two of their children alive still, their daughter who married Mark Fairfield, and a son who went off to America?" "Ah, but he made his fortune there and has come back." "Indeed! I'm very glad to hear it. He has settled at Lansmere?" "No, Sir. I hear as he's bought a property a long way off.
Still, if they are not paid, the election can be upset, petition for bribery and corruption; and if they are paid, why, Lansmere may be your seat for life." RANDAL. "Your expenses shall be paid the moment my marriage gives me the means to pay them, and that must be very soon." DICK. "So Levy says. And my little jobs the private bills?" RANDAL. "Consider the bills passed and the jobs done."
He wrote, but he felt sure that his letters never reached her, since they were unanswered. His young heart swelled with rage. He dropped threats, which alarmed all the fears of Lady Lansmere, and even the prudent apprehensions of his friend, Audley Egerton. At the request of the mother, and equally at the wish of the son, Audley consented to visit at Lady Jane's, and make acquaintance with Nora.
"So be it," said Harley; "I will wait here with your father till you come back. Oh, as to my mother, she will excuse the excuse Madame Riccabocca, and you too. See how charmed she is with your father. I must stay to watch over the conjugal interests of mine." But Mrs. Riccabocca had too much good old country breeding to leave the countess; and Harley was forced himself to appeal to Lady Lansmere.
He felt the generous indignation of manhood. He must see Lord L'Estrange at once, and vindicate himself, vindicate Helen; for thus to accuse one was tacitly to asperse the other. Extricating himself from his own enthusiastic partisans, Leonard went straight on foot towards Lansmere House. The Park palings touched close upon the town, with a shall turnstile for foot passengers.
It was not till he had actually arrived at Lansmere that Audley became acquainted with the name of his principal opponent. Richard Avenel! the brother of Nora! rising up from obscurity, thus to stand front to front against him in a contest on which all his fates were cast. Egerton quailed as before an appointed avenger. He would fain have retired from the field; he spoke to Harley.
I would speak with him." The servant came back in less than two minutes. "I find that my Lord is now particularly engaged, since he has given strict orders that he is not to be disturbed." "Engaged! on what, whom with?" "He is in his own room, sir, with a clergyman, who arrived, and dined here, to-day. I am told that he was formerly curate of Lansmere." "Lansmere! curate! His name, his name!
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