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Ferrars had adhered to the Duke of Wellington, he had not neglected Ferrars in his fall, but his offers of assistance, frankly and generously made, had been coldly though courteously rejected, and no encouragement had been given to the maintenance of their once intimate acquaintance. Mr. Sidney Wilton was much struck by the appearance of Lady Roehampton.
"A strange event!" exclaimed Lady Roehampton, as she threw herself back in the brougham and took her brother's hand. "But not stranger than what has happened to ourselves. Fortune seems to attend on our ruined home. I thought the bride looked beautiful." Endymion was silent. "You are not gay this morning, my dear," said Lady Roehampton; "they say that weddings are depressing.
He was a great friend of Lord Roehampton, had a large estate in the same county, and had refused an earldom. Knowing Endymion, he came and sate by him one day in the House, and asked him, good-naturedly, how he liked his new life. "It is very different from what it was when I was your age. Up to Easter we rarely had a regular debate, never a party division; very few people came up indeed.
One can only comfort oneself on these occasions with the ancient jest that it is "the first seven years that are the worst!" It is surprising how the illusions about artificial legs get knocked on the head one by one. I discussed it with someone at Roehampton later. I thought at least I should have jointed toes! An enterprising French firm sent me a booklet about them one day.
Myra had been a little anxious about the relations between Lord Roehampton and her brother.
Lord and Lady Roehampton gave constant dinners, and after they had tried two or three, he expressed his wish to his wife that she should hold a small reception after these dinners. He was a man of great tact, and he wished to launch his wife quietly and safely on the social ocean.
Lady Roehampton was her frequent guest. Myra continued her duties as a leader of society, as her lord was anxious that the diplomatic world should not forget him. These were the two principal and rival houses. The efforts of Lady Montfort were more fitful, for they were to a certain degree dependent on the moods of her husband.
He would sigh, pressing to his broad breast the tiny form: How sensitive she is!... The result of that selfish blindness for to love children thus is to love them for one's self and not for them was that the girl, at the time of her entrance at Roehampton, was spoiled in the essential traits of her character.
The French seem to have been highly delighted. July 15. Sir G. Murray, Goulburn, and Herries came down to Roehampton at four to dinner. At five we set off for Windsor. The day was beautiful, and all the world made it a holiday. Carriages of all sorts and hackney coaches were on the road all the morning to Richmond. I never saw so many persons there, and chiefly of the class of shopkeepers.
"Well, I shall be deeply disappointed deeply pained," said Lady Roehampton, "if Endymion is not in this parliament, but if we fail I will not utterly despair. I will continue to do what I have done all my life, exert my utmost will and power to advance him." "I thought I had will and power," said Lady Montfort, "but the conceit is taken out of me.
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