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But in those days might was right, and the Duke of Norfolk, fancying that he should like the house for himself, quietly took possession of it. At that time, Edward was just seated on the throne, and Edward had just been reported to Paston to have said in reference to another suit, that "He would be your good lord therein as he would to the poorest man in England.

"Aha!" thought Jane, and wondered if she were to see a certain little romance resumed after the lapse of so many lumbering years. "But she didn't seem to mind Paston any. Well, why should she?" concluded Jane. Presently Truesdale came along and asked his sister to waltz. "All right," she said; "just for a minute; but not out in the middle yet." She wished to test herself first.

"Well, don't commit yourself until you get there; then you can make your own observations." She took his remark as almost anybody else would have felt obliged to take it just for what it sounded. Nobody understood better than Paston the deceptive quality resident in a truth plumply told. "Shall I see Cecilia Ingles there?"

Paston Benedek, who was seated in the stalls, leaned over and touched his arm. "My friend," she exclaimed, "you are distrait! You walk as though you looked for everything and saw nothing. And behold, you have found me!" Norgate shook hands and nodded to Baring, who was her escort. "What have you done with our expansive friend?" he asked. "I thought you were dining with him."

The Chancellor and the Treasurer had prepared for this, by consultations with two or three members of established reputation and of weight in the House and the country; and after an ominous pause, Sir Robert Paston, one of these members, proposed that "the present supply ought to be such as might as well terrify the enemy as assist the King, and that it should therefore be two millions and a half."

He nodded to Mrs. Ingles, who was just moving by with the reluctant William Bates. "And a handsome house, too," declared Rosy. "Still, I suppose that hers, or even Mrs. Bates's, can't be compared with some in London." "Don't be so sure," rejoined Paston.

He and Truesdale subsequently grazed against each other at places where young women, again, were present, whose interest in matters aesthetic was in varying proportions, and whose social foothold was in the lower strata or substrata, as the case might be. Paston handled life with the easy freedom of a man who, after all, was away from home; and Truesdale was not far behind.

"I've got to have something on hand. I've got to engineer. I've got to manage." Paston brought back his eyes from William Bates and Rosamund. "Everybody knows what a capable manager you are." He said this, as he said so many other things, with a frank and bold directness that made any suspicion of an arriere-pensee almost an impossibility.

Attorney Coke had inherited a good estate from his father, had married an heiress, in Bridget Paston, who brought him the house and estate of Huntingfield Hall, in Suffolk, together with a large fortune in hard cash; and he had a practice at the Bar which had never previously been equalled.

Norgate is, or rather he was," Mrs. Paston Benedek remarked. "He has just left the Embassy at Berlin." Selingman leaned back in his chair and thrust both hands into his trousers pockets. He indulged in a few German expletives, bombastic and thunderous, which relieved him so much that he was able to conclude his speech in English.