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"Nay, Myles, give me no thanks," said the Prince, frankly reaching him his hand, which Myles took and set to his lips. "I lay bethinking me of thee this morning, while yet in bed, and so, as I could not sleep any more, I was moved to come hither to see thee." Quite a number of the Prince's faction were at the breakfast at Scotland Yard that morning; among others, the Earl of Mackworth.
I found the accommodation very good at the "Mackworth Arms"; I passed the Saturday evening very agreeably, and slept well throughout the night. The next morning to my great joy I found my boots, capitally repaired, awaiting me before my chamber door. Oh the mighty effect of a little money! After breakfast I put them on, and as it was Sunday went out in order to go to church.
"Look here," said Mackworth brutally; "I don't want to break such a butterfly as you upon the wheel, but how do you like that?"
"Era of sham polish and fiddlestick ends," echoed Henderson; and Mackworth, who had every intention of making a very flourishing speech, was so disconcerted by this unwonted pruning of his periods, that he somewhat abruptly sat down, muttering anathemas on Henderson, and flustered quite out of his usual bland manner.
As for the two young ladies, he often saw them, and sometimes, even in the presence of the Earl, exchanged a few words with them, and Lord Mackworth neither forbade it nor seemed to notice it.
"I don't think it would be good for Johnnie to go down to Eden and put up with Penton," she interjected, "they're too much alike." "Ally Merton is in New York," Galusha Siddon informed me. "He's working on the Express. He wants you to run down and see him." Merton had come to New York the year before, to work on the Express. Mackworth had gotten him the job.
"I don't know what you were talking about, but you clearly meant to insult him, from your manner." "What's the row? what's up?" said a number of boys, who began to throng round. "Only a plebeian splutter of rage from our well-bred friend there," said Mackworth, pointing contemptuously at Kenrick, who stood with dilated nostrils, still heaving with rage. "But what about?"
"Why, first of all, I wasn't going to hear animals like Mackworth abuse you; and next, but for you I should have continued my old selfish way of keeping aloof from all school concerns. It cost me an effort to conquer my shyness, but I remembered our old talk on Appenfell, Walter." Walter smiled gratefully, and Power continued, "But I've come to tell you both a bit of news."
"Ho, Gaffer Fox!" he cried, as soon as he caught sight of the Earl of Mackworth, "what wind blows thee hither among us wild mallard drakes? I warrant it is not for love of us, but only to fill thine own larder after the manner of Sir Fox among the drakes. Whom hast thou with thee? Some gosling thou art about to pluck?"
But the Earl of Mackworth only sat stroking his beard impassively, as was his custom. Myles would have given much to know his thoughts. In all these years Sir James Lee almost never gave any expression either of approbation or disapproval excepting when Myles exhibited some carelessness or oversight. Then his words were sharp and harsh enough.
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