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Slipping on a dressing-gown, he stealthily left his room, and creeping downstairs, found the open door. Emerging on the lawn, he looked quickly about. Beneath a near-by tree he saw a woman in white, and the figure of a man pleading for something. Suddenly Selwyn saw the woman take some article from around her neck and hand it to the man.
David Garrick went to school to Dr. Johnson in the suburbs of Lichfield, at Edial; Addison lived once at Lichfield; and Selwyn was its bishop a few years ago, and is buried in the Cathedral close; but the chief memories of the ancient town cluster around St. Chad, Johnson, and Garrick.
"Like Captain Selwyn with me," she repeated absently; "certainly; Captain Selwyn should be first, everything else second. But how did you find out that, Drina?" "Why, anybody can see that," said the child contemptuously; "you are as fast friends with Uncle Philip as I am with Boots. And why you don't marry him I can't see unless you're not old enough. Are you?" "Yes. . . . I am old enough, dear."
He now had the Senate, the Executive and a majority of the Court of last resort. The government was in his hands. He had reached the summit of his ambition, and the joy of it made all his work seem worth while. But Selwyn, great man that he was, did not know, could not know, that when his power was greatest it was most insecure.
No better selection could have been made than that by which England sent this muscular Christian to organize and administer a Church of mingled savages and pioneers. Bishop Selwyn was both physically and mentally a ruler of men. When young, his tall, lithe frame, and long, clean-cut aquiline features were those of the finest type of English gentleman.
After the nurse had taken the thermometer from Selwyn and marked his temperature on a chart which she placed beside him, breakfast was brought in, and he was propped up with pillows. 'Guid-mornin', said the Highlander. 'I hope ye're nane the waur o' your expeerience. 'Not 'im, broke in the Cockney, eating his porridge with great relish. 'It done 'im good.
Before I could answer, a servant came to tell me the chaise was ready, and that Mrs. Selwyn was enquiring for me. "I will wait on her immediately," cried I, and away I was running; but Lord Orville, stopping me, said, with great emotion, "Is it thus, Miss Anville, you leave me?" "My Lord," cried I, "how can I help it?-perhaps, soon, some better opportunity may offer-"
But Selwyn, looking out of the window across the Park, knew perfectly well that young Erroll, now of age, with a small portion of his handsome income at his mercy, was past the regulating stage and beyond the authority of Austin.
I met a man last night who said you had entered the firm of Neergard & Co." "I have. Who was the man?" "You can never guess, Captain Selwyn." "I don't want to. Who was he?" "Please don't terminate so abruptly the few subjects we have in reserve. We may be obliged to talk to each other for a number of minutes if Rosamund doesn't let us alone. . . . The man was 'Boots' Lansing." "'Boots! Here!"
'I found him a big man, Hiram answered. 'I don't mean big in bulk, for he's not that; but big in nature, the man to make an empire and boss it. 'A splendid type of man, said Mrs. Selwyn, clasping her hands enthusiastically. 'A man to stand at Cæsar's side and give directions. 'Quite so, Hiram responded gravely; 'quite so, madam.
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