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Peradventure a time may come when they who seek the roof of Adam Warner may find less homely cheer, a less rugged habitation, for look you!" he exclaimed suddenly, with a burst of irrepressible enthusiasm and laying his hand on Nevile's arm, as, through all the smoke and grime that obscured his face, flashed the ardent soul of the triumphant Inventor, "look you! since you have been in this house, one of my great objects is well-nigh matured, achieved.
Well, look here, I'm at a loose end again. Nevile's taken 'em out driving to a tea-party to the Sowerbys. I jibbed, though I was asked. I lied, because they drove me into a corner. I couldn't face old Sowerby's chin and all those gels with their embroidered curates what? You know what I mean. I mean their church-work, and the curates they do it for.
At the entrance of this hall the porter left Marmaduke, after exchanging a whisper with a gentleman whose dress eclipsed the Nevile's in splendour; and this latter personage, who, though of high birth, did not disdain to perform the office of chamberlain, or usher, to the king-like earl, advanced to Marmaduke with a smile, and said,
There is no cause," said the stranger, following her. "Again I say, What ailest thou?" This time his voice was that of command, and the poor girl involuntarily obeyed it. She related her misfortunes, her persecution by the tymbesteres, her escape, thanks to the Nevile's courtesy, her separation from her attendant, and her uncertainty as to the way she should pursue.
"It's something you want to know very badly. At least, I should think you did. It's not Nevile's address." She took him gaily. "I don't want to know that at all, if it's a new one. I have three already." "Perhaps," said Morosine, with a friendly look, "it's to cancel some of them." She held up a book. "Is that what you mean? Do look. Songs, by S. Glyde. Did you mean to tell me of that?"
I come here to a house which belonged to Nevile's father, an old, old friend, and I find installed a young lady who does not dine who is extremely capable. I am bewildered, naturally." Chevenix's "I know, I know," and his friendly nods ran on as an accompaniment. "And then," said she, raising her voice, "I find that this young lady and you are old friends.
"But as well might we track the breeze to the rose as Lord William's sigh to maid or matron." While thus conversed the cavaliers, and their plumes waved, and their mantles glittered along the broken ground, Marmaduke Nevile's eye pursued the horsemen with all that bitter feeling of wounded pride and impotent resentment with which Youth regards the first insult it receives from Power.
No, thou mistakest, Montagu is ambitious, I but proud. Montagu ever seeks to be higher than he is, I but assert the right to be what I am and have been; and my pride, sweet wife, is a part of my love for thee. It is thy title, Heiress of Warwick, and not my father's, that I bear; thy badge, and not the Nevile's, which I have made the symbol of my power.
Richard started at these words, and his eye shot fire as it met the keen calm glance of the prelate. "Nay, your Grace wrongs me," he said, gnawing his lip, "or I should not say wrongs, but flatters; for sternness and ambition are no vices in a Nevile's eyes." "Fairly answered, royal son," said the archbishop, laughing; "but let us be frank.
He now relinquished it with an effort. "Thanks," he said. "I like it cold." He sat beside her, and they talked casually, like old, fast friends, of mutual acquaintance. But for him the air was charged; she was on his conscience. Reminiscences paled and talk died down; he found himself staring at the wall. He resumed the great affair. "Nevile's rather jumpy, don't you think?"
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