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Stern: Bell and Plowden, the only Europeans who might have had some influence for good over the mind of the Emperor, were dead. The Gaffat people worked for the King, were frequently near his person, and entertained anything but friendly feelings towards Mr. Stern and the Djenda Mission.

Now, if you'll sit here, and write out for me a similar thing that in consideration of my promise of 150,000 pounds, you covenant to perform the undertaking to be nominated in the document 'A' and so on." Lord Plowden treated as a matter of course the ready and business-like suggestion of the other. Taking his place at the desk in turn, he wrote out what had been suggested.

The winter holidays I spent with Mr Plowden in London, and in the summer he took me on a tour through a considerable portion of England, Scotland, and Ireland. I thus became acquainted with what I was taught to consider my native land, and was able to compare other countries with it.

"I'm afraid you don't take very much stock in the 'friendly interest," he said, with a constrained little laugh. "I'm not taking stock in anything new just now," replied Thorpe, lending himself lazily to the other's metaphor. "I'm loaded up to the gunnels already." A minute of rather oppressive silence ensued. Then Plowden ventured upon an opening.

Strange to say, Theodore preferred as his personal attendants those who had served Europeans. His valet, the only one who stood by him to the last, had been a servant of Barroni, the vice-consul at Massowah. Another, a young man named Paul, was a former servant of Mr. Walker; others had at one time been in the service of Plowden, Bell, and Cameron.

Then he added, in tones of dejected resignation: "When will you want it?" "At the moment when the payments of Rostocker and Aronson are made to you, or to your bankers or agents," Lord Plowden replied, with prepared facility. He had evidently given much thought to this part of the proceedings. "And of course I shall expect you to draw up now an agreement to that effect.

"Nothing could have given me greater pleasure, Lord Plowden," replied the other, leading the way back to the inner apartment. "In fact, I couldn't have asked anything better." The tone of his voice had a certain anxious note in it not quite in harmony with this declaration.

You smile at my Latin, Miss Plowden; but really, since I have become an inhabitant of this monkish abode, my little learning is stimulated to unwonted efforts nay, you are pleased to be yet more merry! I used the language, because silence is a theme in which you ladies take but little pleasure."

Plowden had remembered Kervick's name, when the chance arose to give the old boy a leg up, and then had clean forgotten the circumstance. The episode rather increased his liking for Plowden. He glanced briefly, under the impulse of his thought, to where the peer sat, or rather sprawled, in a big low chair before the fire.

Near this is the effigy also colored and under a canopy of Edmund Plowden, the famous jurist, of whom Lord Ellenborough said that "better authority could not be cited"; and referring to whom Fuller quaintly remarks: "How excellent a medley is made, when honesty and ability meet in a man of his profession!" The letters "Beausean" are for "Beauseant," their war cry.