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He was evidently weak, as from recent illness; for his two supporters led him up the steps, and Scoutbush seemed full of directions and inquiries, and fussed about with the landlady, till she was tired of curtseying to "my lord." A minute afterwards Bowie threw open the door grandly. "My lord, my ladies!" and in trotted Scoutbush, and began kissing them fiercely, and then dancing about.
"What does the philosopher mean now?" asked Scoutbush, looking up from the cold lamb. Valencia knew but too well what he meant. "He has a history, my dear lord." "A history? What! is he writing a book?" Campbell laughed a quiet under-laugh, half sad, half humorous. "I am very tired," said Valencia; "I really think I shall go to bed."
Regular good ones, my lord though they are county bucks very much honoured to make your lordship's acquaintance." Scoutbush expresses himself equally honoured by making their acquaintance, in a tone of bland simplicity, which utterly puzzles Trebooze, who goes a step further. "Your lordship'll honour us by taking pot luck afterwards.
So the children went with Frank and her to Aberalva, and Valencia had learnt half a mother's duties, ere she had a baby of her own. And thus to her, as to all hearts, has the war brought a discipline from heaven. Frank shrank at first from returning to Aberalva, when Scoutbush offered him the living on old St. Just's death.
She came in and stood demurely before him, holding her broad hat in both hands before her knees, like a school-girl, her face half-hidden in the black curls. Scoutbush looked up and smiled affectionately, as he caught the light of her eyes and the arch play of her lips. "Ah! there you are, at a pretty time of night! How beautiful you look, Val! I wish my wife may be half as pretty!"
"You do not know, then, what passed last night?" "I? I can only guess that Vavasour has had one of his rages." "Then you must know," said Campbell with an effort; "for you must explain all to Scoutbush when he returns; and I know no one more fit for the office." And he briefly told him the story. Mellot was much affected. "The wretched ape!
I ought to ask Scoutbush's opinion; but the poor dear fellow is out, you see." Claude read the note written at Bangor. "Fight him I will not! I detest the notion: a soldier should never fight a duel. His life is the Queen's, and not his own. And yet if the honour of the family has been compromised by my folly, I must pay the penalty, if Scoutbush thinks it proper."
At which they all laughed, and laughed, and chattered broad Irish together as they used to do for fun in old Kilanbaggan Castle, before Lucia was a weary wife, and Valencia a worldly fine lady, and Scoutbush a rackety guardsman, breaking half of the ten commandments every week, rather from ignorance than vice.
My sister shall have the yacht, and I'll go up to Penalva." "You will do two good deeds at once, then," said the Major. "You will do what is right, and you will give heart to many a poor wretch here. Believe me, Scoutbush, you will never repent of this." "By Jove, it always does one good to hear you talk in that way, Campbell!
Trebooze has been sorely exercised, during the last fortnight, between fear of the cholera and desire of calling upon Lord Scoutbush "as I ought to do, of course, as one of the gentry round; he's a Whig, of course, and no more to me than anybody else; but one don't like to let politics interfere;" by which Trebooze glosses over to himself and friends the deep Hunkeydom with which he lusteth after a live lord's acquaintance, and one especially in whom he hopes to find even such a one as himself.... "Good fellow, I hear he is, too, good sportsman, smokes like a chimney," and so forth.
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