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Lorrequer I have just heard from Kilkee, that you are at length about to pay us your long promised visit, and write these few lines to beg that before leaving Paris you will kindly execute for me the commissions of which I enclose a formidable list, or at least as many of them as you can conveniently accomplish.
Pray present my respectful compliments to Mrs. Bingham, and say how deeply I feel her most kind attention." Emily rose at the instant, and recovering her self-possession at once, said "You forget, Mr. Lorrequer, it is a secret from whom the flowers came; at least mamma hoped to place them in your vases without you knowing. So, pray, don't speak of it and I'm sure Mr. O'Leary will not tell."
This was the time to explain all about Miss Bingham's visit; and I did so, of course omitting any details which might seem to me needless, or involving myself in inconsistency. Trevanion listened patiently to the end was silent for some moments then added "And you never saw the letter?" "Of course not. It was burned before my eyes." "I think the affair looks very serious, Lorrequer.
In this enviable frame of mind I sat sipping my wine, and watching the clock for that hour at which, with a safe conscience, I might retire to my bed, when the waiter roused me by demanding if my name was Mr. Lorrequer, for that a gentleman having seen my card in the bar, had been making inquiry for the owner of it all through the hotel.
The postscript ran somewhat thus "Glorious fun have I had since we met; but were it not that my good angel stood by me, I should write these hurried lines with a wife at my elbow; but luck, that never yet deserted, is still faithful to your old friend, H. Lorrequer."
Before I had time to speak, she rose once more; and now her face was bathed in blushes, her eyes swam with rising tears, and her lips trembled with emotion as she spoke. "Oh, Mr. Lorrequer, what will you what can you think of this? If you but knew ;" and here she faltered and again grew pale, while I with difficulty rising from the sofa, took her hand, and led her to the chair beside it.
"Eh, Lorrequer, you here still? Why, man, I thought you'd have been over the frontier early this morning?" "Indeed, my lord, I am not exactly aware of any urgent reason for so rapid a flight." "You are not! The devil, you are not.
I, therefore, briefly gave her to understand the affair at the salon which I suspected to be the cause of the threatened arrest and was about to profess my unaltered and unalterable attachment, when she suddenly stopped me. "No, Mr. Lorrequer, no. All is over between us. We must never meet again never. We have been both playing a part.
This, thought I, is all excellent; and however the adventure ends, this is certainly pleasant, and I never tasted better Madeira. "And so, Mr. Lorrequer, you heard of my affair at Cantantrabad, when I took the Rajah prisoner?" "Yes," said I; "the governor-general mentioned the gallant business the very last time I dined at Government-House." "Ah, did he? kind of him though.
"My Dear Lorrequer The Colonel has received orders to despatch two companies to some remote part of the county Clare; as you have 'done the state some service, you are selected for the beautiful town of Kilrush, where, to use the eulogistic language of the geography books, 'there is a good harbour, and a market plentifully supplied with fish. I have just heard of the kind intention in store for you, and lose no time in letting you know.
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