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"For my part, I shall resign," said Lord Saxingham, doggedly; "it is the only alternative left to men of honour." "You are wrong; I know another alternative." "What is that?" "Make a Cabinet of our own. Look ye, my dear lord; you been ill-used; your high character, your long experience, are treated with contempt. It is an affront to you the situation you hold.
Maltravers smiled but the smile was not like his own shook his head, and strode rapidly away. Three of the London clocks, one after the other, had told the hour of nine, as a tall and commanding figure passed up the street towards Saxingham House. Five doors before you reach that mansion there is a crossing, and at this spot stood a young man, in whose face youth itself looked sapless and blasted.
He must again have recourse to the money-lenders, his small estate was long since too deeply mortgaged to afford new security. Usury, usury, again! he knew its price, and he sighed but what was to be done? "It is but for a few months, a few months, and Evelyn must be mine. Saxingham has already lent me what he can; but he is embarrassed.
That "man was born to walk erect and look upon the stars," is an eloquent fallacy that Lord Saxingham might suffice to disprove. He seemed born to walk with a stoop; and if he ever looked upon any stars, they were those which go with a garter. Though of celebrated and historical ancestry, great rank, and some personal reputation, he had all the ambition of a parvenu.
Here, as he was munching a biscuit and reading an article in one of the ministerial papers the heads of which he himself had supplied Lord Saxingham joined and drew him to the window. "I have reason to think," said the earl, "that your visit to Windsor did good." "Ah, indeed; so I fancied."
"That's a good fellow, Lumley," said Lord Saxingham; "Florence is never more welcome to my eyes than at half-past one o'clock A.M., when I associate her with thoughts of my natural rest, and my unfortunate carriage-horses. By the by, I wish you would dine with me next Saturday." "Saturday: unfortunately I am engaged to my uncle." "Oh! he has behaved handsomely to you?" "Yes." "Mrs.
To whom should a daughter give from her superfluities but to a parent? from whom should a parent receive, but from a child, who can never repay his love? Ah, this is nothing; but you you who have never crossed her lightest whim do not you destroy all the hopes of happiness your Florence can ever form." Florence wept, and Lord Saxingham, who was greatly moved, let fall a few tears also.
Here Mrs. Templeton was interrupted by the entrance of her husband. He held the letter from Lord Saxingham it was yet unopened. He seemed moody; but that was common with him.
"A what!" cried Lord Saxingham. "In other words, I am about to to well, the truth must out to marry." "Has the Duke of been here to-day?" "Not that I know of. But it is no duke to whom I have promised my hand it is a nobler and rarer dignity that has caught my ambition. Mr. Maltravers has " "Mr. Maltravers! Mr. Devil! the girl's mad! don't talk to me, child, I won't consent to any such nonsense.
Nay, he thought it would be wise to pick a quarrel with him, if possible, as the best means of banishing a supposed rival from the house of his noble relation, Lord Saxingham. But no opportunity for that step presented itself; so Lumley kept a fit of convenient rudeness, or an impromptu sarcasm, in reserve, if ever it should be wanted.
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