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Daly, who had for some time past been in silent admiration of my stage-struck appearance "upon my conscience, Mr. Lorrequer, I had no conception you knew Irish." The mighty talisman of the Counsellor's voice brought me back in a moment to a consciousness of where I was then standing, and the still more fortunate fact that I was only a subaltern in his majesty's th .
THE CONFESSIONS OF HARRY LORREQUER, Vol. 3 Dublin As there appeared to be but little prospect of poor Fitzgerald ever requiring any explanation from me as to the events of that morning, for he feared to venture from his room, lest he might be recognised and prosecuted for abduction, I thought it better to keep my own secret also; and it was therefore with a feeling of any thing but regret, that I received an order which, under other circumstances, would have rendered me miserable to march on detachment duty.
He looked for a moment at me, then at Stubbes, and then burst out himself, as loud as either of us. When he had at length recovered himself, he wiped his face with his handkerchief, and said, with a tone of much gravity: "But, my dear Lorrequer, this will be a serious a devilish serious affair. You know what kind of man Colonel C is; and you are aware, too, you are not one of his prime favourites.
It might have been about six weeks after the events detailed in my last chapter had occurred, that Curzon broke suddenly into my room one morning before I had risen, and throwing a precautionary glance around, as if to assure himself that we were alone, seized my hand with a most unusual earnestness, and, steadfastly looking at me, said "Harry Lorrequer, will you stand by me?"
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.
"Oh, it is quite possible, then," said Trevanion, musingly; "do you know, Mr. Lorrequer, this affair seems much more puzzling to me than to you, and for this plain reason I am disposed to think you never saw your cousin last night." "Why, confound it, there is one circumstance that I think may satisfy you on that head.
"Quite right, Lorrequer, but still I shall not need this, you cannot leave before eleven or twelve o'clock, in fact I have another service to exact at your hands before we part with you; meanwhile, try and get some sleep, you are not likely to know anything of a bed before you reach the Clarendon."
He began by" humph "Ah," said his lordship, impatiently, "you will never find it out look here 'Mr. Lorrequer, whom we have mentioned as having made the highly exciting speech, to be found in our first page, is, we understand, the son of Sir Guy Lorrequer, of Elton, in Shropshire one of the wealthiest baronets in England.
Lorrequer has Fanny for his 'Frou; and, upon my soul, I should feel tempted to take the part myself upon the same terms; though I verily believe I should forget I was acting, and make fierce love to her on the stage." "And who may la charmante Fanny be?" said I, with something of the air of the "Dey of Algiers" in my tone.
"I have his majesty's order to invite your Excellency to dinner to-morrow," said the grand Mareschal coming up at this instant. I bowed my acknowledgments, and turned again to Lord Callonby, whose surprise now seemed to have reached the climax. "Why Lorrequer, I never heard of this? when did you adopt this new career?"
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