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The shouts of Vere called us, and we arrived to find the bodies of Millbank and Coningsby apparently lifeless, for Millbank was quite gone, and Coningsby had swooned on landing. 'If Coningsby had been lost, said Henry Sydney, 'I never would have shown my face at Eton again. 'Can you conceive a position more terrible? said Buckhurst. 'I declare I shall never forget it as long as I live.
When I recollect our Eton days, I cannot understand how more than two years have passed away without our being together. I am sure the fault is mine. I might now have been at Oxford instead of Paris. And yet, added Coningsby, 'that would have been a sad mistake, since I should not have had the happiness of being here. 'Oh, yes, that would have been a sad mistake, said Miss Millbank.
In the coffee-room at the hotel a stranger, loud in praise of the commercial enterprise of the neighbourhood, advised Coningsby, if he wanted to see something tip-top in the way of cotton works, to visit Millbank of Millbank's; and thus it came about that Coningsby first met Edith Millbank. Oswald was abroad; and Mr.
Edith Millbank, too, had heard news at a London assembly of wealth and fashion that Coningsby was engaged to be married to Lady Theresa Sydney. So easily does rumour spin her stories and smite her victims with sadness. V. Lady Monmouth's Departure It was Flora, to whom Coningsby had been always kind and courteous, who told Lucretia that Lord Monmouth was displeased with his grandson.
He is probably still living, and those who desire his acquaintance will find him creeping round some gambling table, and trying to look as though he had in his pocket ample means to secure those hoards of money which men are so listlessly raking about. From our view he has now vanished. It was a bitter February morning, when two cabs stood packing themselves at No. 5, Paradise Row, Millbank.
'The first report was, that you had gone, but that seemed without foundation; but Coningsby was quite given up. Where are they now? 'They are both at their tutors'. I thought they had better keep quiet. Vere is with Millbank, and we are going back to Coningsby directly; but we thought it best to show, finding on our arrival that there were all sorts of rumours about.
'We are all of us happy at Millbank, said Oswald. 'I was much struck with the valley and the whole settlement when I first saw it, said Coningsby. 'Suppose you go and see about the tackle, Oswald, said Mr. Millbank, 'and Mr. Coningsby and I will take a stroll on the terrace in the meantime.
Millbank understood no other, he was wont to say! and he found that many of his friends who did, bought a great many pleasing pictures that were copies, and many originals that were very displeasing.
As for Rod, his disappointment at not finding the proof of which he had been so confident was so great that he hardly uttered a protest, when instead of carrying him to Millbank or any other station on the line where he might have found friends, his captors turned into a cross-road from the left and journeyed directly away from the railroad.
The character of the son as much as the influence of the father, tended to the fulfilment of these injunctions. Oswald Millbank was of a proud and independent nature; reserved, a little stern.
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