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Lady Tranmore replied regretfully that she had not been there, and that she had not been able to have a word with him about it since. "Oh, he knows he did well," said Lady Parham, carelessly. "They all do. Lord Parham was delighted. He could do nothing but talk about it at dinner. He says they were in a very tight place, and Mr. Ashe got them out."
For answer he opened the book, and without speaking pointed to two passages the first, an account full of point and malice of the negotiations between himself and Lord Parham at the time when he entered the cabinet, the conditions he himself had made, and the confidential comments of the Premier on the men and affairs of the moment. "Do you remember the night when I told you those things, Kitty?"
I suppose it was the way I behaved to Lord Parham?" She looked at him rather tremulously. It was the first time since her illness began that she had referred to the incidents at Haggart. "Look here!" said Ashe, in a tone of decision; "I shall really give up talking politics to you if it only reminds you of disagreeable things." She took no notice.
In most respects they showed equal proficiency with the children of Parham; and in reading the Testament, their accuracy was even greater. In looking over the writing, several "incendiary" copies caught our eyes. One was, "Masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal." Another, "If I neglect the cause of my servant, what shall I do when I appear before my Master!"
"Who is it?" said an impatient judge behind Lady Parham. "What's the matter?" Lady Parham shrugged her shoulders. "It's Lady Kitty Ashe," whispered the débutante, who was the judge's daughter, "talking to Mr. Cliffe. Isn't she pretty?" A sudden silence fell upon the group in the porch. Kitty's high, clear laugh seemed to ring back into the house. Then Ashe ran down the steps.
"One of the most treacherous things ever done!" said Ashe, indignantly. "Fair fight, if you like! But if that kind of thing were to spread, I for one should throw up politics to-morrow." "Every one said it did a vast deal of good," persisted Kitty. "A precious sort of good! Yes I believe Parham in particular profited by it more shame to him!
But from some clumsiness he let it drop; at the moment a door opened at the back of the platform, and the leaf, caught by the draught, was blown back across the bench where Kitty and the house-party were sitting, and fluttered down to a resting-place on the piece of red baize wheron Lord Parham was standing close beside his left foot.
Ashe promised his mother to look into them. He and she combined for the protection of Lord Parham. When about one o'clock Ashe went to bed, Kitty either was or pretended to be fast asleep.
"Hullo, what's that?" and she lifted a dinner-card, and looked at it strangely. "My dear Kitty! when did it come?" exclaimed Margaret French, in dismay. It was a dinner-card, whereby Lord and Lady Parham requested the honor of Mr. and Lady Kitty Ashe's company at dinner, on a date somewhere within the first week of July. Ashe bent over to look at it.
"It's the other thing that's hard isn't it?" "Lady Kitty," said the Dean, lifting a finger, "you are plagiarizing from Mr. Pitt." "Am I?" said Kitty. "I didn't know." "I imagine that Mr. Pitt talked sense sometimes," said Lord Parham, shortly. "Ah, that was when he was drunk!" said Kitty. "Then he wasn't responsible."
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