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Then he must be an Englishman," cried Miss Carleton, her sparkling eyes unconsciously betraying her pleasure at the discovery. "Merrick, are you sure of that?" inquired Mr. Whitney, in astonishment. "Certainly, or I would never have made the assertion I did." Ralph Mainwaring suddenly turned the conversation. "How about that will business, Mr. Whitney? When will that come off?"
"I attributed it, in my own mind, to the conversation at luncheon, to which Mr. Whitney has referred." "Regarding one Richard Hobson?" "Yes, sir." "Do you know what, if any, relations existed between Mr. Mainwaring and this Hobson?" The black plumes of Mrs.
"Five minutes! five centuries of torture! I must ring the bell, Mrs. Mainwaring, if you attempt to force this subject on me. I should be sorry to treat you rudely, but you must see at once that I am quite unable to talk of anything calculated to disturb me. I have a tendency of blood to the head I am also nervous and irritable. Put it off, my dear madam.
Mainwaring received orders to take command of the Yankee, a swift, light-draught, heavily armed brig of war, and to cruise about the Bahama Islands and to capture and destroy all the pirates' vessels he could there discover. On his way from Washington to New York, where the Yankee was then waiting orders, Mainwaring stopped in Philadelphia to bid good-by to his many friends in that city.
Mainwaring, having much confidence in the effect which a knowledge of her disclosure must, as she calculated, necessarily produce on the ambitious baronet, resolved to lose no time in seeing him. On the evening before she went, however, the following brief conversation took place between her and Lucy: "My dear Lucy," said she, "a thought has just struck me.
This done, the train moved on, Mainwaring satisfied that he had checked the runaways, whoever they were. The Smiths and their attendant reached Canterbury in good time, but this time they were outridden. Mainwaring's messenger had got in before them, and the young adventurers found themselves stopped by a mounted guard, with the unwelcome tidings that his honor, the mayor, would like to see them.
Much would have been lost had all poets been as reticent, yet one likes him better for it than if he had given us a new "Vita Nuova." What an immense long way I have wandered from "Sordello," my dear Mainwaring, but when a man turns to his books, his thoughts, like those of a boy, "are long, long thoughts."
"You surely do not intend to dispute his identity after the unmistakable proofs submitted?" "I care nothing about his identity," Mainwaring retorted, with a sneer. "Whether he is the son of Harold Mainwaring or of Frederick Scott, matters little; both were renegades and outcasts from their homes.
At length a Committee of the House of Commons declared that George Bolton Mainwaring was not duly elected, and ought not to have been returned for the county of Middlesex; but that Sir Francis Burdett was duly elected, and ought to have been returned. This was a sad blow for the saints, who were the principal supporters of Mr. Mainwaring.
General Mainwaring had acted as best man. Finally, there was a short description of the presents of the bridegroom to the bride, which included a set of amethysts, etc.... Dick read it all through to the luxuriant end, down to the peals of the bells and the rejoicings in the evening.