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By the way, Tregellis, have you got your man for this fight yet?" "No." "You seem to be hanging in the wind a long time. It's play or pay, you know. I shall claim forfeit if you don't come to scratch." "If you will name your day I shall produce my man, Sir Lothian," said my uncle, coldly. "This day four weeks, if you like." "Very good. The 18th of May." "I hope to have changed my name by then!"
I begin to perceive, nephew, that the breed of Tregellis has not yet lost some of the points which have made it famous." It was at the stroke of nine that night when Sir Charles, throwing his reins to the groom, descended from his high yellow phaeton, which forthwith turned to take its place in the long line of fashionable carriages waiting for their owners.
"Why do you live in a fine house, and have grand dinners, and let Peggy Bray nearly starve in that old mud hut of hers, and Widow Tregellis there, with her six children, and no fire or clothing for them? I can't make it out, sir!" "Who has been putting these bad thoughts into your head?" said Mr. Grand sternly. "No one, sir. I have been thinking for myself.
"It should be the longest bench in the world, Sherry," answered the Prince, "for a good many of his subjects will want seats on it. Very glad to see you back, Tregellis, but you must really be more careful what you bring in upon your skirts. It was only yesterday that we had an infernal Dutchman here howling about some arrears of interest and the deuce knows what.
I've humiliated myself before him by letting him see, oh, ever so much too plainly, that I wanted him to ask me; and I've been repulsed, rejected, positively refused and slighted by him! And yet I love him! I shall never love any other man as I love Ernest Le Breton. Poor Lady Hilda Tregellis! Even she too had, at times, her sentimental moments!
"Buff and blue are always very gentlemanlike. But a sprigged waistcoat would have been better." "I think not," said my uncle, warmly. "My dear Tregellis, you are infallible upon a cravat, but you must allow me the right of my own judgment upon vests. I like it vastly as it stands, but a touch of red sprig would give it the finish that it needs."
The cheery answer came with so merry a ring that the clouds cleared from my uncle's face. "You should recommend your man to lead more, Tregellis," said Sir John Lade. "He'll never win it unless he leads." "He knows more about the game than you or I do, Lade. I'll let him take his own way."
To her, Lady Hilda Tregellis and Lady Le Breton were both 'ladies of title'; and the difference between their positions, which seemed so immense to Ernest, seemed nothing at all to the merry little country girl who sat sketching beside him.
The lean man with the weak knees is General Scott who lives upon toast and water and has won 200,000 pounds at whist. He is talking to young Lord Blandford who gave 1800 pounds for a Boccaccio the other day. Evening, Dudley!" "Evening, Tregellis!" An elderly, vacant-looking man had stopped before us and was looking me up and down.
"Am I to understand," said he, in a loud, harsh voice, "that this young man claims to be the heir of the peerage of Avon?" "He is my lawful son." "I knew you fairly well, sir, in our youth; but you will allow me to observe that neither I nor any friend of yours ever heard of a wife or a son. I defy Sir Charles Tregellis to say that he ever dreamed that there was any heir except myself."
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