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Saxingham and his friends were imbeciles, incapables, mostly men who had outlived their day. But Lord Vargrave, in the prime of life versatile, accomplished, vigorous, bitter, unscrupulous Vargrave was of another mould, Vargrave was to be dreaded; and therefore, if possible, to be retained.
She then raised herself, and even in the shades of death, a faint blush passed over her cheek. "My good dear father, what comfort will it give you hereafter to think how fondly you spoiled your Florence!" Lord Saxingham could not answer: he clasped her in his arms and wept over her. Then he broke away looked on her with a shudder "O God!" he cried, "she is dead she is dead!" Maltravers started.
On went Ferrers, and soon found himself in the Mall of the Park. Here he was joined by Mr. Templeton. "I have, sir; and I regret to say " "I thought so I thought it," interrupted Templeton: "no gratitude in public men no wish, in high place, to honour virtue!" "Pardon me; Lord Saxingham declares that he should be delighted to forward your views that no man more deserves a peerage; but that "
"There you are quite right, Lumley," returned Lord Saxingham, laughing; "but I will not quarrel with her for breaking hearts and refusing hands, if she do but grow steady at last, and settle into the Duchess of ." "Duchess of !" repeated Lumley, absently; "well, I will go and present myself. I see she is growing tired of the signor. I will sound her as to the ducal impressions, my dear lord."
The first letter Lumley opened was from Lord Saxingham. It filled him with dismay. The question at issue had been formally, but abruptly, decided in the Cabinet against Vargrave and his manoeuvres. Some hasty expressions of Lord Saxingham had been instantly caught at by the premier, and a resignation, rather hinted at than declared, had been peremptorily accepted.
"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.
Lord Saxingham, who was scarcely altered since we met with him in the last series of this work, except that he had grown somewhat paler and thinner, and that his hair had changed from iron-gray to snow-white, threw himself in the armchair beside Lumley, and replied, "Vargrave, it is really unpleasant, our finding ourselves always thus controlled by our own partisans.
"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.
Where I give my hand, there shall I give my heart." At this time Maltravers half rose, and sighed audibly. "Hush!" said Caroline, in alarm. At the same moment, the whist-table broke up, and Cleveland approached Maltravers. "I am at your service," said he; "I know you will not stay the supper. You will find me in the next room; I am just going to speak to Lord Saxingham."
On arriving at Knaresdean, Lumley found Lord Saxingham and some other politicians, who had arrived the preceding day, closeted with Lord Raby; and Vargrave, who shone to yet greater advantage in the diplomacy of party management than in the arena of parliament, brought penetration, energy, and decision to timid and fluctuating counsels.
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