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"Colonel Legard," said Cleveland, "a thousand apologies for my neglect: I really did not observe you enter, you came round by the front door, I suppose. Let me make you acquainted with Mr. Maltravers." Legard bowed low. "We have met before," said he, in embarrassed accents: "at Venice, I think!"
To allay the fears, to fulfil the prayers of the man whose conduct appeared so generous, to restore him to peace and the world; above all, to pluck from the heart of that beloved and gentle mother the rankling dart, to shed happiness over her fate, to reunite her with the loved and lost, what sacrifice too great for this? Ah, why was Legard absent?
MALTRAVERS was lying at length, with his dogs around him, under a beech-tree that threw its arms over one of the calm still pieces of water that relieved the groves of Burleigh, when Colonel Legard spied him from the bridle-road which led through the park to the house. The colonel dismounted, threw the rein over his arm; and at the sound of the hoofs Maltravers turned, saw the visitor, and rose.
But still it may be doubted whether Evelyn had seen enough of Legard, and whether her fancy and romance were still sufficiently free from the magical influences of the genius that called them forth in the eloquent homage of Maltravers, to trace, herself, to any causes connected with her younger lover the listless melancholy that crept over her.
But you must start for London immediately." A week ago, and Legard's utmost ambition would have been amply gratified by this post; he now hesitated. "My dear lord," said he, "I cannot say how grateful I feel for your kindness; but but " "Enough; no thanks, my dear Legard. Can you go to town to-morrow?" "Indeed," said Legard, "I fear not; I must consult my uncle."
To-morrow I must go forth a shunned and despised man, I, a gentleman and a soldier! They may insult me and I have no reply!" The Englishman seemed to muse, for his brow lowered, and he made no answer. Legard threw himself back, overcome with his own excitement, and wept like a child. He walked to and fro the room, still without speaking. At last he approached the gamester, and took his hand.
Into these gayeties, new to their fascination, dazzled by their splendour, the young Evelyn entered with her hostess; and ever by her side was the unequalled form of Legard.
But there seemed some mortality in the Legard family; in one year after returning to England and settling in B -shire, the admiral found himself wifeless and childless. He then turned to his orphan nephew; and soon became fonder of him than he had ever been of his own children.
Well, I dare say we shall meet at Paris. Oh, I forgot, I observe that you have renewed your intimacy with Legard. Now, he is a very good fellow, and I gave him that place to oblige you; still, as you are no longer a garcon but perhaps I shall offend you?" "Not at all. What is there against Legard?" "Nothing in the world, but he is a bit of a boaster.
He arrived; paid off the duns a kindness which seriously embarrassed him swore, scolded, and cried; and finally insisted that Legard should give up that d -d coxcomb regiment, in which he was now captain, retire on half-pay, and learn economy and a change of habits on the Continent. The admiral, a rough but good-natured man on the whole, had two or three little peculiarities.
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