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Lord Rockminster rose from his chair, stretched his long legs, and threw away his cigarette. "Very well done," said he, slowly. "Congratulate all of you." "This is the first time I ever saw Rockminster sit out a morning performance," observed Percy Lestrange, with a playful grin.
Ballardyce would see at once about having a professional nurse sent; meanwhile, quiet, rest, and the absence of mental disturbance were the great things. And so the two augurs departed. The moment that Mangan returned to Lionel's room, the latter glanced at him quickly and furtively. "Are they gone, Maurice?" he whispered. "Yes." "And the check for Lord Rockminster?"
She had one more secret, too, from that lady, which she could not divulge, perhaps, because she knew how the widow would have rejoiced to know it. This regarded an event which had occurred during that visit to Lady Rockminster, which Laura had paid in the last Christmas holidays: when Pen was at home with his mother, and when Mr.
"And give her this Il est la with my love, please; and I beg your pardon for calling you back; and if she will be at Madame Crinoline's at half-past three, and if Lady Rockminster can spare her, I should so like to drive with her in the park;" and she went in, singing and kissing her little hand, as Morgan the velvet-footed came up the carpeted stair.
It was agreed that they should go and call upon the ladies; and they marched away in high spirits to the hotel in Jermyn Street. Once more the dear face shone upon him; once more the sweet voice spoke to him, and the tender hand pressed a welcome. There still wanted half an hour to dinner. "You will go and see your uncle now, Mr. Pendennis," old Lady Rockminster said.
Contemplation, accompanied by a cigarette, was now his chief good. What his meditations were no one knew, but they sufficed unto himself. He had attained Nirvana. He lived in a region of perpetual thought. But there was one active quality that Lord Rockminster certainly did possess: he was a most devoted brother, as all the town knew.
Whilst Pen, in his own county, was thus carrying on his selfish plans and parliamentary schemes, news came to him that Lady Rockminster had arrived at Baymouth, and had brought with her our friend Laura. At the announcement that Laura his sister was near him, Pen felt rather guilty. His wish was to stand higher in her esteem, perhaps; than in that of any other person in the world.
He knew all my ways, and, dammy, when I rang the bell, the confounded thief brought the thing I wanted not like that stupid German lout. And what sort of time have you had in the country? Been a good deal with Lady Rockminster? You can't do better. She is one of the old school vieille ecole, bonne ecole, hey?
"An earl's coronet," said Pen, who, no doubt, was pleased himself, "will have a great effect in Lamb-court and Smithfield. Stay Lady Rockminster, will you join us in a little conspiracy?" "How do you mean conspiracy, young man?" "Will you please to be a little ill to-morrow; and when old Mr. Huxter arrives, will you let me call him in?
She had been on a visit to her old friend, Lady Rockminster, who had taken a summer villa in the neighborhood; and who, hearing of Arthur's illness, and his mother's arrival at Richmond, had visited the latter; and, for the benefit of the former, whom she didn't like, had been prodigal of grapes, partridges, and other attentions.
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