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Updated: June 16, 2025
Arthur Wellesley, the fourth son of the Earl of Mornington, was born on May 1, 1769, at Dungan Castle, in Ireland.
The inquiry which he had to make related to events that were certainly quite as strange as those which he had just witnessed; and while the part played by Gaston Sauverand in the pursuit of the Mornington inheritance deserved all his attention, the behaviour of Mile. Levasseur puzzled him no less.
It gave him a feeling of extreme lassitude, depriving him of all power of speech or movement. Father and son were dead! They had been killed during that night! A few hours earlier, though the house was watched and every outlet hermetically closed, both had been poisoned by an infernal puncture, even as Inspector Vérot was poisoned, even as Cosmo Mornington was poisoned.
As the possible heir of Cosmo Mornington and a prominent figure in the case, I am the enemy, and they are trying to do away with me as they did with the others. And it is Florence who is acting against me. And it is she who has committed murder. "Everything tells against her; nothing speaks in her defence. Her innocent eyes? The accent of sincerity in her voice? Her serene dignity? And then?
"I say that this turquoise belongs to my ring, which was given me by Cosmo Mornington on the first occasion that I saved his life." "So we are agreed?" "Yes, Monsieur le Préfet, we are agreed." Don Luis Perenna began to walk across the room, reflecting. The movement which the two detectives made toward the two doors told him that his arrest was provided for.
Mornington, whom I called my uncle, requiring my immediate presence in York. "My departure caused great regret to the family. Cornelius remonstrated; Mrs. H questioned the necessity of my journey; Charlotte said nothing, but left the room in tears.
Young students of the neighboring academy mere boys of from thirteen to eighteen years of age, but brave, spirited, vigorous lads, well mounted, well armed, and led on by the redoubtable college hero, Cloudesley Mornington. They rushed forward, they surrounded, they fell upon the marauders with an absolute shower of blows. "Give it to them, men! This for Fanny! This for Edith!
In referring to the details which Lord Mornington had entered into of the various atrocities committed in France, he says: "But what was the sum of all that he had told the House? that great and dreadful enormities had been committed, at which the heart shuddered, and which not merely wounded every feeling of humanity, but disgusted and sickened the soul.
"O yes, indeed you have, but what do you think that I came here to tell you dear." Isabel confessed that it was useless to attempt to guess as the day had been such an eventful one, and offered so large a scope for the imagination. "Well if you won't guess I must tell you deary, I'm engaged to Harry Mornington." "May you be very, very happy dear Emily," said Isabel returning her embrace.
Twenty-three of the peers, among whom was Lord Mornington, signed a protest against it, and the viceroy, the Marquess of Buckingham, refused to transmit the address to England. This increased the confusion: not only were the two legislatures at variance, but the Irish legislature passed a vote of censure on the viceroy.
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