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Roxholm turned to look with some stir of feeling in his breast, since this was the man who had so early roused in him an emotion of anger and rebellion.
Since then all goes with comparative smoothness. If a Queen's favoured counsellor and greatest general so serves him, the little potentate feels his importance properly valued." "But if one who knows his Lordship had looked straight in his eyes," said Roxholm, "he could have seen the irony within them held like a spark of light. I have seen it."
The lad was in scarlet, and no youngster of the Court was more finely clad or fitted, and not one had Roxholm ever set eyes upon whose youthful body and limbs were as splendid in line and symmetry; in truth, the beauty and fire of him were things to make a man lose his breath.
The bells pealed at intervals throughout the day in at least five villages over which his Grace of Osmonde was lord at Roxholm they pealed, at Marlowell Dane, at Paulyn Dorlocke, at Mertounhurst, at Camylott and in each place, when night fell, bonfires were lighted and oxen roasted whole, while there were dancing and fiddling and drinking of ale on each village green.
"She is too magnificent a beauty for an empty-pocketed rascal like me to offer to buy her. I have not what would pay for her and she knows it. She sets her own price upon herself, as she stands there curling her vermilion lip and daring a man to presume to buy her cheap. 'Tis only a great Duke's son who may make bold to bid." And he turned and bowed, half laughing, half malicious, to Roxholm.
And Gloucestershire and Warwickshire and Worcestershire are all agog with it!" "And they follow her like slaves," added Tantillion, in an ecstacy, "and stand about with their mouths open to stare at her swimming though her minuets with bowing worshippers, and oh! Roxholm nay, I should say Osmonde; but how can a man remember you are Duke instead of Marquis?
When the Marquess of Roxholm had returned from his first campaign he had found her living in these apartments a woman nearing seventy, somewhat bent with rheumatism, and white-haired, but with the grave, clear eyes he remembered, still undimmed. "I hope to be here still, my lord Marquess," she had said, "when you bring your lady home to us even perhaps when the nurseries are thrown open again.
Roxholm had never seen wilder riding and more daring leaps, and it had also happened that he had not yet gone a-hunting with so boisterous and rollicking a body of gentlemen. Their knowledge of dogs, foxes, and horseflesh was plainly absolute, but they had no Court manners, being of that clan of country gentry of which London saw but little.
When this fourth morning they had been but about an hour upon the road, Roxholm gave to the creature's glossy neck the touch which was the signal 'twas his delight to answer. "Watch him shoot forward like an arrow from a bow," my lord said to Mr. Fox, and the next instant was yards away.
"Never was I more glad to see a man," he said. "I'm damned if we scapegraces have not missed thy good-looking face. Thou art a fine fellow, Roxholm and good-natured ay, and modest, too for all thy beauty and learning. Many a man, with half thou hast, would wear grand Court airs to a rattle-pated rascal like Tom Tantillion.
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