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Insidious arts had long been secretly employed to infuse these ideas; and when once the jealousy of power was excited, every trifle confirmed the suspicion which Lord Oldborough's uncourtier-like character was little calculated to dispel. His popularity now gave umbrage, and it was hinted that he wished to make himself the independent minister of the people.
All Lord Oldborough's requests for his friends were granted all his recommendations attended to: it was grateful to him to feel that his influence lasted after his power had ceased. Though the sun had apparently set, its parting rays continued to brighten and cheer the prospect. Under a new minister, Mr. Temple declined accepting of the embassy which had been offered to him.
Lord Oldborough smiled, and said, "The author the reputed author of this pamphlet, sir, is obliged to you for throwing light upon a passage which he could not himself elucidate." This speech of Lord Oldborough's alluded to something that had passed at a dinner at Lord Skreene's, the day before Cunningham had set out on his embassy.
She knew that if any thing should happen to the commissioner, whose health was declining; if he should lose Lord Oldborough's favour, which seemed not impossible; if Lord Oldborough should not be able to maintain himself in power, or if he should die; she and her daughters would lose every thing.
"Whose life is it you seek?" cried he, in a voice which obtained instant silence. "Lord Oldborough's? Lord Oldborough stands before you. Take his life who dares a life spent in your service. Strike! but strike openly. You are Englishmen, not assassins." Then, turning to his servants, he added, in a calm voice, "Home slowly. Not a man here will touch you. Keep your master in sight.
Falconer was so anxious about them and Lady Frances gave her several I must see Lady Frances again directly, to inquire whether she gave her, among the rest, Lord Oldborough's I'll go to Lady Jane Granville's this evening on purpose. But had I not better go this moment to Lady Trant?"
This young lady was so beautiful that she would, in all probability, have attracted general attention, even if she had not been the sister of a man of Colonel Hauton's fortune, and the niece of a nobleman of Lord Oldborough's political consequence; but undoubtedly these circumstances much increased the power of her charms over the imaginations of her admirers.
Count Altenberg landed the preceding day had not stopped to see any one in England had not even heard of Lord Oldborough's resignation had proceeded directly to the Hills had left his equipage at a town a few miles distant thought he had been fully master of the well-known road, but the approach having been lately changed, he had missed his way.
His lordship then opened the packet, examined the letters read and re-directed some to the Duke of Greenwich, others to the king: the abbe, all the time, descanting vehemently on Neapolitan politics regretting Lord Oldborough's resignation adverting still to his lordship's powerful influence and pressing some point in negotiation, for which his uncle, the cardinal, was most anxious.
Pending the negotiation of this marriage, and during the whole of this eventful fortnight, Cunningham Falconer had been in the utmost anxiety that can be conceived not for a brother's interests, but for his own: his own advancement he judged would depend upon the result, and he could not rest day or night till the marriage was happily completed though, at the same time, he secretly cursed all the loves and marriages, which had drawn Lord Oldborough's attention away from that embassy on which his own heart was fixed.
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