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Besides, after Castle Luton, George Tressady was so attractive! You did not know him, Aldous; but to talk to him stirred all one's energies; it was a perpetual battle one took it up again and again, enjoying it always.
In the few moments' chat that followed Tressady found that Naseby, like Fontenoy, regarded him as the new friend who might be able to do something for a wild fellow, now that mother and old friends were alike put aside and ignored. But, as he rather impatiently declared and was glad to declare such a view was mere nonsense. He had tried, for the mother's sake, and could do nothing.
Suicide! Ancoats!" said Tressady, throwing back his head. "We rate him, apparently, much the same," said Maxwell, drily. "But it is not to be wondered at that the mother should be differently affected. She sent you" the speaker paused a moment "what seemed to me a touching message." Tressady bent forward. "'Tell him that I have no claim upon him that I am ashamed to ask this of him.
And never was greater difference than 'twixt these two, Tressady being a great, wild fellow with a steel hook in place of his left hand, d'ye see, and Bartlemy a slender, dainty-seeming, fiendly-smiling gentleman, very nice as to speech and deportment and clad in the latest mode, from curling periwig to jewelled shoe-buckles.
Fullerton such was the gentleman's name wanted creature-comforts and occasional loans; Lady Tressady wanted company, compliments, and "musical sketches'" for her little tea-parties. Mrs.
He did not, Tressady knew, reckon with any certainty on turning out the Government in this coming division. The miserable majority with which they had carried the workshops clause would fall again it would hardly be altogether effaced. That final wiping-out would come if indeed it were attained in the last contest of all, to which Fontenoy was already heartening and urging on his followers.
And what a characteristic room, with its tortured decorations and crowded furniture, and the flattered portraits of Lady Tressady, in every caprice of costume, which covered the walls! George looked round it all with an habitual distaste; yet not without the secret admission that his own drawing-room was very like it. His mother might, he feared, have a scene in preparation for him.
"Would it be possible to ask Sir George Tressady to go?" she said quietly. Maxwell looked at her open-mouthed for an instant. Fontenoy, behind him, threw a sudden, searching glance at the beautiful figure in grey. "We all know," she said, turning back to the mother, "that Ancoats likes Sir George." Mrs. Allison shrunk a little from the clear look.
Shapetsky's last formidable account; various imperious missives from a "sharp-practice" solicitor, whose name happened to be disreputably known to George Tressady; together with repeated and most explicit assurances on the part both of agent and lawyer, that if arrangements were not made at once by Lady Tressady for meeting at least half Mr.
She could only show him offended airs, and rack her brains morning and night as to how best to help herself. Meanwhile George had never been so little pleased with living as during these few days. He was overwhelmed with congratulations; and, to judge from the newspapers, "all England," as Lady Tressady said, "was talking of him."
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