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O'Leary concluded his story, and I was obliged to join in the mirth of Trevanion, who laughed loud and long as he finished it. O'Leary and Trevanion had scarcely left the room when the waiter entered with two letters the one bore a German post-mark, and was in the well-known hand of Lady Callonby the other in a writing with which I was no less familiar that of Emily Bingham.
Had I not been behind the scenes, noted all of joy and of peace that the pursuit of power had cost Trevanion, and seen how little of happiness rank gave even to one of the polished habits and graceful attributes of Lord Castleton? Yet each nature seemed fitted so well, the first for power, the last for rank!
My father stayed some hours. "On returning home, to my great surprise I found Trevanion with my uncle. He had found us out, no easy matter, I should think. But a good impulse in Trevanion was not of that feeble kind which turns home at the sight of a difficulty. He had come to London on purpose to see and to thank us.
Oh, rare specimen of a race fast decaying, specimen of the true fine gentleman, ere the word "dandy" was known, and before "exquisite" became a noun substantive, let me here pause to describe thee! Sir Sedley Beaudesert was the contemporary of Trevanion and my father; but without affecting to be young, he still seemed so.
Could it, indeed, be Rowena at all the fair-haired, the blue-eyed Lady Rowena Trevanion of Tremaine? Why, why should I doubt it? The bandage lay heavily about the mouth but then might it not be the mouth of the breathing Lady of Tremaine? And the cheeks there were the roses as in her noon of life yes, these might indeed be the fair cheeks of the living Lady of Tremaine.
Trevanion, whose eyes had been merely for a moment lifted from his paper, again fell, and he appeared to take no notice whatever of the extraordinary proximity of the Frenchman, still less of the savage and insulting character of his looks.
"Only for a few days, and then she and Lady Ellinor join Trevanion in the North, you know he is with Lord N , settling measures on which But, alas! they consult me now on those matters, force their secrets on me. I have, Heaven knows how many votes! Poor me! Upon my word, if Lady Ellinor was a widow, I should certainly make up to her: very clever woman, nothing bores her."
Instantly an order was given, and a few minutes later Sergeant Beel was saluting him. "You say you saw Captain Trevanion fall?" said Bob. "Yes, sir." "Can you point out the spot?" "Yes, sir." A few minutes later Bob was in possession of all the information which the Sergeant could give. "Heavens, you are not going, Nancarrow?" "I'm going to have a try," was Bob's reply.
Yet, with his invariable delicacy, in spite of all this horrible frankness, Sir Sedley had not said a word to wound what he might think the more sensitive part of my amour propre, not a word as to the inadequacy of my pretensions to think seriously of Fanny Trevanion. Had we been the Celadon and Chloe of a country village, he could not have regarded us as more equal, so far as the world went.
"Anyhow, the man who has you as a nurse may thank his lucky stars," he said aloud, "and of this you may be sure, if there's any chance of our meeting, I shall make the most of it. Trust me for that." That same day Trevanion made his way back to Plymouth with a glad heart.
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