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'Ods fish, I liked his spirit so much I had his friend, Captain something or other 'and there he stopped, caught by Miss Manners's appearance, for she was very white. "'The name is Richard Carvel! she cried. "'I'll lay a thousand it was! I shouted, rising in my chair. And the company stared, and Lady Pembroke vowed I had gone mad.
But in that hour of darkness I counted upon my lady's spirit. Dr. Courtenay came to the assembly very late, with a new fashion of pinchbeck buckles on his pumps and a new manner of taking snuff. He was too thorough a courtier to profess any grief over Miss Manners's match, and went about avowing that he had always predicted a duke for Miss Dorothy.
To his surprise the Italian answered, with every appearance of truthfulness, that he had not seen Mr. Manners at all! Manners replied briefly that he had had no interview whatever with Tournelli, and changed the subject quickly. The mystery as we persisted in believing it was heightened when another member deposed that he had seen "Tom," the Western waiter, coming from Manners's office.
Presently the news of the trial of Lord Baltimore's horse began to be noised about, and was followed by a deluge of wagers at Brooks's and White's and elsewhere. Comyn and Fox, my chief supporters, laid large sums upon me, despite all my persuasion. But the most unpleasant part of the publicity was the rumour that the match was connected with the struggle for Miss Manners's hand.
For I conceived a notion, enlarged by Mr. Fox, that I had more than once fallen into the tender clutches of the hounds. I was so reflecting the morning following Lord Carlisle's dinner, when Banks announced a footman. "Mr. Manners's man, sir," he added significantly, and handed me a little note. I seized it, and, to hide my emotion, told him to give the man his beer.
It cheered me to smoke a pipe with old McAndrews, Mr. Manners's factor, who loved to talk of Miss Dorothy near as much as I. He had served her grandfather, and people said that had it not been for McAndrews, the Manners fortune had long since been scattered, since Mr. Marmaduke knew nothing of anything that he should.
I know you are far too Sensible not to come to Arlington Street. I subscribe myself, Richard, y'r sincere Friend, There was not so much as a postscript from Dolly, as I had hoped. But the letter was whole-souled, like Mrs. Manners, and breathed the affection she had always had for me. I honoured her the more that she had not attempted to excuse Mr. Manners's conduct.
"You were not ridiculous, Jinny." She laughed. "I was not as ridiculous as Mr. Cluyme with his bronze clock. But do you know what I had under my arm what I was saving of all the things I owned?" "No," he answered; "but I have often wondered." She blushed. "This house this place made me think of it. It was Dorothy Manners's gown, and her necklace. I could not leave them.
Manners nor Miss Dorothy knew aught of this state of affairs. "Mr. Richard," he said earnestly, as he bade me good-by, "I kennt Mr. Manners's mind when he lea'd here. There was a laird in't, sir, an' a fortune. An' unless these come soon, I'm thinking I can spae th' en'." In truth, a much greater fool than McAndrews might have predicted that end.
Despite my effort to reassure myself, I could not quite throw off a feeling of uneasiness whenever I thought of the manner in which I had betrayed to Sir John the fact that I was a friend to Mary Stuart. I knew that treachery was not native to English blood, and my knowledge of mankind had told me that the vice could not live in Sir John Manners's heart.
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