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Rickmansworth was a tall, broad, reddish-faced young man, with a jovial laugh, infinite capacity for being amused at things not intrinsically humorous, and manners that he had tried, fortunately with imperfect success, to model on those of a prize-fighter. Ayre liked him for what he was, while shuddering at what he tried to be.
"Is Rickmansworth coming?" put in Lady Claudia, before Eugene had time to reply to his fiancée. "Be at peace," he said, addressing Lady Claudia; "your brother is not coming. I have known Rickmansworth a long while, and I never knew him to be polite. Neither Lady Claudia nor her brother Robert, who was the young man with the beer, seemed put out at this message.
Lord Rickmansworth demanded. "He'll be here after lunch, you know. You are an ass, Eugene, to bring him down!" "I'm not quite sure, you know, that he won't persuade her." "Why didn't you settle it this morning?" "My dear fellow, she was impossible this morning." "Oh, bosh!" said his lordship. "Now I'll tell you what you ought to have done " "Oh, shut up, Rick! What do you know about it?
"Why, where did you pick him up?" asked Lady Claudia. "Pick him up! I've known Charley Stafford since we were both that high. We were at Harrow and at Oxford together. Rickmansworth knows him, Bob. You didn't come till he'd left." "Why is the gentleman called 'Father'?" said Bob. "Because he is a priest," Miss Chambers answered. "And really, Mr. Territon, you're very ignorant.
"Thank you I hope you will. You've had a pleasant time, I hope? Who are to be your river party?" "Oh, just ourselves and one or two girls and men. Lord Rickmansworth is to be there a day or two, if he can. And oh, yes, Mr. Haddington, I think." "Isn't Haddington staying here?" "I don't know. I understood not. So your party will break up," Kate went on. "Of course, Claudia can't stay when I go."
Wherefore, sending for Ayrs, who had brought the book, Justice Titchborn examined him if he knew me, and where I dwelt; who telling him he knew me well, and had been often at my house, he gave him in charge to give me notice that I should appear before him and the other justice at Rickmansworth on such a day; threatening that if I did not appear, he himself should be prosecuted for spreading the book.
Rickmansworth openly scoffed at this behavior, and Eugene did not know whether to be pleased at finding his views agreed with, or angry at hearing his mistress's whims treated with fraternal disrespect. Ultimately, he found himself, under the influence of lunch, coinciding with Rickmansworth's dictum that girls rather liked making fools of themselves, and that Claudia was no better than the rest.
At Rickmansworth, he found himself a neighbor of William Penn, whom he calls "the captain of the Quakers." Ever ready for battle, Baxter encountered him in a public discussion, with such fierceness and bitterness as to force from that mild and amiable civilian the remark, that he would rather be Socrates at the final judgment than Richard Baxter.
After some little deliberation, I resolved, as the best expedient to answer both ends, to go over next morning to the justices, and lay my strait before them, and try if I could procure from them a respite of my appearance before them until I had been in Essex, and paid the duty of friendship to my sick friend; which I had the more hopes to obtain, because I knew those justices had a great respect for Guli; for when William Penn and she were first married they lived for some years at Rickmansworth, in which time they contracted a neighbourly friendship with both these justices and theirs, who ever after retained a kind regard for them both.
Lane had returned only that morning, from America, he believed, and had left the house an hour ago, on his way to Territon Park; he added that he believed Mr. Lane had received a telegram from Lord Rickmansworth inviting him to go down. Mrs. Lane was at Millstead Manor. Stafford was annoyed at missing Eugene, but not surprised or disturbed to hear of his visit to Territon Park.
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