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'Who could it be? But 'the pace, as Nimrod used to say, 'was too good to inquire. A little farther on, and Sponge drew upon the great guns of the hunt the men who ride to hounds, and not after them; the same who had criticized him through the fence Mr. Wake, Mr. Fossick, Parson Blossomnose, Mr. Fyle, Lord Scamperdale, Jack himself, and others.
Whatever uneasiness Sponge felt on that score, Jawleyford, however, was quite at his ease, and swaggered about like an aide-de-camp at a review. 'Well, we should be going, I suppose, said he, drawing on a pair of half-dirty, lemon-coloured kid gloves, and sabreing the air with his whip. 'Is Lord Scamperdale punctual? asked Sponge. 'Tol-lol, replied Jawleyford, 'tol-lol.
Spraggon of handing his extra weight to Lord Scamperdale; and Jack, in the full consciousness of injured guilt, intimates that the blood of the Spraggons won't stand that that there's 'only one way of settling it, and he'll be ready for Pacey half an hour after the race.
The people, who were only accustomed to see him in his short, country-cut hunting-coats, baggy breeches, and shapeless boots, could hardly recognize the frock-coated, fancy-vested, military-trousered swell, as Lord Scamperdale. Even Titus Grabbington, the superintendent of police, declared that he wouldn't have known him but for his hat and specs.
The name occupied their attention some time, for it did not begin as the 'Aristocratic. The 'Great National, the 'Grand Naval and Military, the 'Sports-man, the 'Talli-ho, the 'Out-and-Outer, the 'Swell, were all considered and canvassed, and its being called the 'Aristocratic' at length turned upon whether they got Lord Scamperdale to subscribe or not.
Jawleyford has not stood the honour of the Scamperdale alliance quite so well as his daughter; and when our 'amaazin' instance of a pop'lar man, instigated perhaps by the desire to have old Scamp for a brother-in-law, offered to Amelia, Jaw got throaty and consequential, hemmed and hawed, and pretended to be stiff about it.
Lord Scamperdale, knowing our friend Jack was not over affluent, had no idea of spoiling him by too much luxury, and as the railway would serve a certain distance in the line of Hanby House, he despatched Jack to the Over-shoes-over-boots station with the dog-cart, and told him he would be sure to find a 'bus, or to get some sort of conveyance at the Squandercash station to take him up to Puffington's; at all events, his lordship added to himself, 'If he doesn't, it'll do him no harm to walk, and he can easily get a boy to carry his bag.
The young ladies looked at each other, and then at mamma, who, seeing what was wanted, looked at papa, and asked, 'if he was going to ask Lord Scamperdale over? Amelia, among her many 'presentiments, had long enjoyed one that she was destined to be Lady Scamperdale. 'No over no, snapped Jawleyford; 'what should put that in your head? 'Oh, I thought as Mr.
Neither did Lord Scamperdale arrive before he was wanted, a very common custom with people unused to public visiting. He cast up just when he was wanted. His ring of the door-bell acted like the little tinkling bell at a theatre, sending all parties to their places, for the curtain to rise.
Scrambleford Green was a small straggling village on the top of a somewhat high hill, that divided the vale in which Jawleyford Court was situated from the more fertile one of Farthinghoe, in which Lord Scamperdale lived. Think of that, you 'used up' young gentlemen of twenty, who have exhausted the pleasures of the world!
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