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Still I can understand that it is preferable to having fat and greasy fellows squander a shilling for the privilege of perching upon a box while I am being hanged. And I think I shall accept your toast "You will be avenged," Ufford said, simply. "My dear, as if I ever questioned that! Of course, you will kill Pevensey first and Umfraville afterward. Only I want to live.
You will readily conceive that any gentleman of self-respect cannot permit such farcical utterances to be delivered without appending a gladiatorial epilogue. Well! what are the conditions of this duel?" "Oh, fool that I have been!" cried Ufford, who was enabled now by virtue of their seclusion to manifest his emotion. "I, who have known you all your life !" He paced the room.
Lord Ufford, in a richly figured suit, came hastily to Lady Honoria Calverley, his high heels tapping audibly upon the floor, and with gallantry lifted her hand toward his lips. Her husband he embraced, and the two men kissed each other, as was the custom of the age. Chatter and laughter rose on every side as pert and merry as the noises of a brook in springtime.
For I have won, I have won! and there is that in me which will not accept the stake I cheated for." "And you," said Calverley "this thing is you!" "A helpless reptile now," said Ufford. "I have not the power to check Lord Umfraville in his vengeance. You must be publicly disgraced, and must, I think, be hanged even now when it will not benefit me at all. It may be I shall weep for that some day!
"But that sense of negation, of theoretic insecurity, which was in the air, conspiring with what was of like tendency in himself, made of Lord UFFORD a central type of disillusion. . . . He had been amiable because the general betise of humanity did not in his opinion greatly matter, after all; and in reading these 'SATIRES' it is well-nigh painful to witness the blind and naked forces of nature and circumstance surprising him in the uncontrollable movements of his own so carefully guarded heart."
Erwyn's snuff-box, which Calverley had been admiring. He followed the earl into a side-room opening upon the Venetian Chamber wherein the fete was. Ufford closed the door. You saw that he had put away the exterior of mirth that hospitality demanded of him, and perturbation showed in the lean countenance which was by ordinary so proud and so amiably peevish.
"Why, then, you lackey with a lackey's soul, attend to what I say. Can you make any terms with Umfraville?" "I can do nothing," Ufford replied. "You have robbed him as me of what he most desired. You have made him the laughing-stock of England. He does not pardon any more than I would pardon." "And as God lives and reigns, I do not greatly blame him," said young Calverley.
I may tell you now. I think that you do not remember. We gathered cherries. I ate two of them which had just lain upon her knee " His hands had clenched each other, and his lips were drawn back so that you saw his exquisite teeth, which were ground together. He stood thus for a little, silent. Then Ufford began again: "I planned all this. I plotted this with Umfraville.
I think I gave up much. Pro honoria!" he chuckled. "The Latin halts, but, none the less, the jest is excellent." "You have given more than I would dare to give," said Calverley. He shuddered. "And to no end!" cried Ufford. "Ah, fate, the devil and that code I mocked are all in league to cheat me!" Said Calverley: "The man whom I loved most is dead.
Edward, sorely in need of men and subsidies for another expedition to France, returned them a conciliatory answer, summoning them to join him in arms, with their followers, at an early day; and although a vigorous effort was made by Sir Ralph Ufford to enforce the articles of 1331, and the ordinance of 1341, by the capture of the Earls of Desmond and Kildare, and by military execution on some of their followers, the policy of non-intercourse was tacitly abandoned for some years after the Remonstrance of Kilkenny.
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