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'Yes, a great deal since I have been in this room; but unfortunately it is all untrue. 'There is a report that Rambrooke is to have the Buck-hounds; but I cannot trace it to any authority. 'Pooh! said Lord Eskdale. 'I don't see that Rambrooke should have the Buckhounds any more than anybody else. What sacrifices has he made? 'Past sacrifices are nothing, said Lord Eskdale.
"I don't pretend to be behind the scenes, my Lord," said the honest gentleman in a peculiarly confidential tone, and with a glance that spoke volumes of state secrecy; "but it was said to me to-day, 'Tadpole, if you do chance to meet Lord Marney, you may say that positively Lord Rambrooke will not have the Buck-hounds."
"That I can tell you to a T," replied Mr. Cassilis, "for it was offered to me when old Rambrooke died. You will never get twelve thousand a year out of it."
"All I want," said Lord Marney, "is to see men of character about her Majesty. This is a domestic country, and the country expects that no nobleman should take household office whose private character is not inexpugnable. Now that fellow Rambrooke keeps a French woman. It is not much known, but it is a fact." "Dreadful!" exclaimed Mr Tadpole. "I have no doubt of it.
'I dare say Rambrooke will have the Buckhounds, said the great noble, musingly. 'Your Lordship has not heard Clifford's name mentioned? continued Mr. Earwig.
These three distinguished noblemen were all of them anxious a little fidgetty; but at the same time it was not even whispered that Lord Rambrooke or any other lord had received the post which Lord Marney had appropriated to himself; nor had Lord Killcroppy had a suspicious interview with the prime minister, which kept the Duke of Fitz-Aquitaine quiet though not easy; while not a shadow of coming events had glanced over the vacant stall of Lord Ribbonville in St George's Chapel, and this made Lord de Mowbray tranquil, though scarcely content.
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