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Vimpany's protuberant eyes looked as if they would fly out of his head. "If I lend you the money " Hugh began. "Yes? Yes?" cried the doctor. "I do so on condition that nobody is to know of the loan but ourselves." "Oh, sir, on my sacred word of honour " An order on Mountjoy's bankers in Paris for the necessary amount, with something added for travelling expenses, checked Mr.
Ha! my brains are in good working order to-day; I haven't been drinking any of Mr. Mountjoy's claret do you take the joke, Miss Henley?" Chuckling over the recollection of his own drunken audacity, he happened to notice Fanny Mere. "Hullo! is this another injured person in want of me? You're as white as a sheet, Miss. If you're going to faint, do me a favour wait till I can get the brandy-bottle.
Would sad necessity excuse her, if she accepted Mountjoy's offer to leave Paris, for the one reason that her husband had asked it of her as a favour? Hugh at once understood her motive, and assured her of his sympathy. "You may depend upon my returning to London to-morrow," he said. "In the meantime, is there no better way in which I can be of use to you?
"The wine may be worth it," Mountjoy answered quietly; "but it is more than I can afford to pay. No, ma'am; I will leave you to find some lover of good claret with a longer purse than mine." It was in this man's character, when he said No, to mean No. Mr. Mountjoy's hostess perceived that her crazy customer was not to be trifled with. She lowered her terms again with the headlong hurry of terror.
"He sees an enemy, of course, in every one who pretends to know more than he knows himself, or, indeed, in every one who does not. You said something about having a reason of your own, and he at once connected you with Mountjoy's disappearance. Such creatures are necessary, but from the little I've seen of them I do not think that they make the best companions in the world. I shall leave Mr.
Vimpany and to Mountjoy. As to what she would tell her mistress she would be guided by the advice of the others. She got to London in safety and drove straight to Mr. Mountjoy's hotel, proposing first to communicate the whole business to him. But she found in his sitting-room Mrs. Vimpany herself. "We must not awake him," she said, "whatever news you bring.
Florence certainly had expressed an unintelligible objection to the elder brother. Why should the younger not be more successful? Mrs. Mountjoy's heart had begun to droop within her as she had thought that her girl would prove deaf to the voice of the charmer.
Would Fanny be good enough to say that he had made inquiries on the subject of Mr. Mountjoy's health, before he left London. The report was still favourable; there was nothing to complain of but the after-weakness which had followed the fever. On that account only, the attendance of the nurse was still a matter of necessity.
There came across Mountjoy's mind, as he stated the stakes for which he consented to play, a remembrance that in the old days he had always been called Captain Scarborough by this man who now left out the captain. Of course he had fallen since that, fallen very low.
"Jist as much as there's in my wig," replied Shane Fadh, "and there's ne'er a pocket to it yet. Why, bless your sowl, how could there be money in it, whin the last man of the Grameses that owned it I mane of the ould stock, afore it went into Lord Mountjoy's hands sould it out, ran through the money, and died begging afther'? Did none of you ever hear of
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