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Updated: June 11, 2025
No one could doubt the evidence of Lady Fitz Rewes." D'Alchingen shrugged his shoulders. "In that event which is unlikely," he said; "M. de Hausée will have a bad half-hour with Mrs. Parflete. The idyll will be spoilt for ever, and our pretty tale for angels about a Saint and a little Bohemian will sink to its proper level. It always takes three to make a really edifying Platonic history.
They intended to stand by Robert, but they did not wish to advertise their loyalty. The Carlton set were divided into two camps those who thought Orange unlucky, and those who thought him an alien adventurer. So far as these opinions touched his career, both were damaging. The friends of Lord Wight and Lady Fitz Rewes had always been jealous of the young man.
David walked about the room, looking for things he did not want, and asking questions he did not wish answered, although he hoped they would interest his mother. But his spirits soon flagged. The conversation became trivial and absurd. "Where are you staying?" asked Mrs. Rennes. "I am with Pensée Fitz Rewes," said Agnes; "she has gone in the carriage to do a little shopping.
"I suppose you want Orange to marry your inopportune Archduchess?" "The lady in question is certainly inopportune. I have never called her an Archduchess. I leave such audacities to her enemies! But tell me what you think of Mrs. Parflete?" "I have never seen her. Pensée Fitz Rewes insists that she is beautiful, cold, determined, and uncommon."
Disraeli had been opposed, from the first, to Robert's marriage with Mrs. Parflete, for, as other diplomatists, he preferred his own plans before those of Providence, and he had wished to see his young friend wisely united to the unexceptionable Viscountess Fitz Rewes. "But," he observed, shrugging his shoulders, "to talk expediency is not a safe way of opening the game with Orange.
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