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"With Cosmo Mornington, the thing was easy enough. Introducing himself to the American as a doctor, Jean Vernocq put poison into one of the phials which Mornington used for his hypodermic injections.
I am glad, indeed, that Abdool also came safely out of it; as I should have missed him, fearfully. "The interpreter showed himself a good man, and I hope that Lord Mornington will, when I report his conduct, make him a handsome present.
Sheridan was naturally indignant at these desertions, and his bitterness overflows in many passages of the speech before us. Lord Mornington having contrasted the privations and sacrifices demanded of the French by their Minister of Finance with those required of the English nation, he says in answer:
"I will look through it, presently," Lord Mornington said; "and if you will dine with me here, I shall then have read it, and shall be able to decide where you can be employed to the best advantage." The dinner was a quiet one, only the officers of the Governor General's suite being present.
In the same year that saw the birth of Napoleon, and on a date as little certain as that of the conqueror of Europe, a child was born to Garret Wellesley, first Earl of Mornington, in Dublin. The child was a son, the third that Anne Hill, Lord Dungannon's eldest daughter, had borne to her music-loving husband; the child was christened Arthur.
The others settled themselves in their chairs; and the Prefect read out: "The last will and testament of me, Cosmo Mornington, eldest son of Hubert Mornington and Ermeline Roussel, his wife, a naturalized citizen of the United States of America.
At the age of thirty, Major Gordon obtained his first independent command, thus surpassing the Duke of Wellington's achievement by four years. With Wellington, too, able as he showed himself to be, it must be borne in mind that his first appointment was due to family interest, for his eldest brother, Lord Mornington, was Viceroy of India at the time.
"That's where you make a mistake, Monsieur le Préfet," said Don Luis. M. Desmalions gave a start. "What! What's that? Cosmo Mornington ?" "I say that Cosmo Mornington did not die, as you think, of a carelessly administered injection, but that he died, as he feared he would, by foul play." "But, Monsieur, your assertion is based on no evidence whatever!" "It is based on fact, Monsieur le Préfet."
"Upon the heirs principally, because two days ago he telephoned to me that he had collected all the particulars, and also upon the very points which But wait: I remember that he spoke to my secretary of a murder committed a month ago to-day.... Now it's a month to-day since Mr. Cosmo Mornington " M. Desmalions pressed hard on a bell. His private secretary at once appeared.
In short, there was not a ray of light thrown upon the subject. Equally vain was all search for the traces of Victor, the Roussel sister's first cousin, who would have inherited the Mornington bequest in the absence of any direct heirs. "Is that all?" asked Perenna. "No," said Mlle. Levasseur, "there is an article in the Echo de France " "Relating to me?" "I presume so, Monsieur.
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