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His lordship's eyes followed the pretty form of Constance as she disappeared up the staircase on her return to the schoolroom. William Yorke's were cast in the same direction. Then their eyes the peer's and the clergyman's met. "Ye have given her up, I understand, Master William?" "Master William" vouchsafed no reply. He deemed it a little piece of needless impertinence.
'I'll light the lamp, it said; and with an overpowering feeling of relief Mr Pickering recognized it as Lord Wetherby's. A moment later the temperamental peer's dapper figure became visible in silhouette against a background of pale light. 'Ah-hum! said Mr Pickering. The effect on Lord Wetherby was remarkable.
Carlyle hesitated, and looked down at his dress a plain, gentlemanly, morning attire, but certainly not a dinner costume for a peer's table. "Oh, that's nothing," said the earl; "we shall be quite alone, except my daughter. Mrs. Vane, of Castle Marling, is staying with us. She came up to present my child at the last drawing-room, but I think I heard something about her dining out to-day.
I never saw him look better than in his peer's robes of scarlet and ermine when he took his seat in the House of Lords, or more amazing than when, tightly buttoned up in the Privy Councillor's uniform of blue and gold, he stood in the "general circle" at the Drawing-room or Levée. In his second Administration he looked extraordinarily old. His form was shrunk, and his face of a death-like pallor.
Perhaps I might have retired very well satisfied with this declaration, had not I, in my passage through the hall, heard one of the footmen upon the top of the staircase, pronounce with an audible voice, 'Will your lordship please to be at home when he calls? It is not to be supposed that I was pleased at this discovery, which I no sooner made, than, turning to my conductor, 'I find, said I, 'his lordship is disposed to be abroad to more people than me this morning. The fellow, though a valet-de-chambre, blushed at this observation; and I withdrew, not a little irritated at the peer's disingenuity, and fully resolved to spare him my visits for the future.
Warrington, thinking you were as rich as Croesus otherwise I never should have sate down to cards with you I wrote to you yesterday, begging you to lend me some money to appease some hungry duns whom I don't know how else to pacify. My poor fellow! every shilling of your money went to them, and but for my peer's privilege I might be hob-and-nob with you now in your dungeon.
"Well, well so I'm really in the presence of Peer's wife his wife in flesh and blood. And this is what she looks like! That fellow always had all the luck." And he took her hand again and kissed it. Merle drew it away and blushed. "You are not married, then, Mr. Brock?" "I? Well, yes and no. I did marry a Greek girl once, but she ran away. Just my luck."
To this Miss Riddle said neither yes nor no; and, after a further chat upon indifferent topics, the matron took her departure, much satisfied, however, with the apparent suavity of the worthy peer's fair niece. It matters not how hard and iniquitous the hearts of mothers may be, it is a difficult thing to extinguish in them the sacred principle of maternal affection. Mrs.
The chauffeur had escaped with a fractured thigh. The peer's name was Lord Talgarth. On the morning of the twenty-fourth a curious little incident happened I dug the facts out of the police news in a small public-house on the outskirts of South London. Obviously it is no more than the sheerest coincidence.
And at last he began to distinguish the people in the beds near by, and to chat with them. On his right lay a black-haired, yellow-faced dock labourer with a broken nose. His disease, whatever it might be, was clearly different from Peer's. He plagued the nurse with foul-mouthed complaints of the food, swearing he would report about it.
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