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The direful youths fought in the Steynham stables, overheard by the grooms. Everard received a fine account of the tussle from these latter, and Rosamund, knowing him to be of the order of gentlemen who, whatsoever their sins, will at all costs protect a woman's delicacy, and a dependant's, man or woman, did not fear to have her ears shocked in probing him on the subject.
The end of it was that all three flew apart, for Cecil confessed to having a temper, and in contempt of him for the admission wrung out of him, Lord Avonley had pricked it. My lord went down to Steynham, Beauchamp to Holdesbury, and Captain Baskelett to his quarters; whence in a few days he repaired penitently to my lord the most placable of men when a full submission was offered to him.
And indeed soon afterward he was telling her that there on those downs, in full view of Steynham, he and his wife had first joined hands. Beauchamp sat silent. Mr. Romfrey despatched orders to the stables, and Rosamund to the kitchen. Cecilia was rather dismayed by the formal preparations for the ride. She declined the early cup of coffee. Mr. Romfrey begged her to take it.
O for the passionate will to make head against what appeared as a fate in this matter! She had it not. Mr. and Mrs. Wardour-Devereux, Sir John and Lady Baskelett, and the Countess of Welshpool, another sister of Mr. Romfrey's, arrived at Steynham for a day and a night. Lady Baskelett and Lady Welshpool came to see their brother, not to countenance his household; and Mr.
Nevil's loss of Cecilia she had anticipated; she had heard of it when she was lying in physical and mental apathy at Steynham. Lord Romfrey had repeated to her the nature of his replies to the searching parental questions of Colonel Halkett, and having foreseen it all, and what was more, foretold it, she was not aroused from her torpor.
Beauchamp entered the room alone. He looked worn and thin, of a leaden colour, like the cloud that bears the bolt. News had reached him of the death of Lord Avonley in the hunting-field, and he was going on to Steynham to persuade his uncle to accompany him to Bevisham and wash the guilt of his wrong-doing off him before applying for the title. 'You would advise me not to go? he said. 'I must.
Well, the Ariadne is only just paid off, and I can't well go to Steynham yet. I Beauchamp was astonished at the hesitation he found in himself to name it: 'I have business in Bevisham. 'Naval business? she remarked. 'No, said he.
I foresee it: he will hear the scandal: he will imagine you as bad in morals as in politics. And you have lost your friend in Lord Romfrey though he shall not be your enemy. Colonel Halkett and Cecilia called on us at Steynham. She was looking beautiful; a trifle melancholy. The talk was of your that I do not like it, but you hold those opinions the Republicanism.
Culbrett without admiring his wit. 'No, and I see no good in this kind of Steynham talk, Colonel Halkett said, rising. 'We're none of us perfect. Heaven save us from political parsons! Beauchamp was heard to utter, 'Humanity. The colonel left the room with Cecilia, muttering the Steynham tail to that word: 'tomtity, for the solace of an aside repartee. She was on her way to dress for church.
Till I come back from Steynham, I ask you not to see him alone: not to go out to him. The colonel glanced at her windows. Cecilia submitted to the request, out of breath, consenting to feel like a tutored girl, that she might conceal her guilty knowledge of what was to be seen through the windows. 'Now I'm off, said he, and kissed her. 'If you would accept Nevil's word! she murmured.
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