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"I have been like all cowards," said he, seating himself, "anxious to defer an evil as long as possible; a bad policy, for it increases the worst of all pains, that of suspense." Mrs. Merton had undertaken the duties that appertain to the "hissing urn." "You prefer coffee, Lord Vargrave? Caroline, my dear "
Hobbs; it might be really useful to meet this gentleman. The slim secretary, who was very hungry, and who thought he sniffed an uncommonly savoury smell, looked up from his boots. Lord Vargrave smiled. "My young friend here is too great an admirer of Mrs. Hobbs who is to be not to feel anxious to make the acquaintance of any member of the family she is to enter." Mr.
They sat down, and Lord Doltimore arranged the pieces. "Sensible man, Mr. Maltravers," said the young lord; "but I don't hit it off with him: Vargrave is more agreeable. Don't you think so?" "Y-e-s." "Lord Vargrave is very kind to me, I never remember any one being more so; got Legard that appointment solely because it would please me, very friendly fellow!
"I hear Mamma's bell; go, Margaret, she wants you." Left alone, the young beauty sank down abstractedly, and though the looking-glass was opposite, it did not arrest her eye; she forgot her wardrobe, her muslin dress, her fears, and her guests. "Ah," she thought, "what a weight of dread I feel here when I think of Lord Vargrave and this fatal engagement; and every day I feel it more and more.
At length Maltravers lifted his head, and waved his hand gently to Lord Vargrave. "All is now explained," said he, in a feeble voice; "our interview is over. I must be alone; I have yet to collect my reason, to commune calmly and deliberately with myself; I have to write to her to invent, to lie, I, who believed I could never, never utter, even to an enemy, what was false!
It is literally with me the highwayman's choice, money or life." Vargrave paused, and took Caroline's hand. "My noble friend! I do not say that I shall not feel a deep and sharp pang at seeing you wed another; but I shall be consoled by the thought that I have assisted to procure for you a station worthier of your merits than that which I can offer.
"But," said Lord Vargrave, "as I am to go with you as far as , where our roads separate, I hope I am not condemned to go alone, with my red box, two old newspapers, and the blue devils. Have pity on me." "Perhaps you will take Grandmamma, then?" whispered Caroline, archly. Lumley shrugged his shoulders, and replied in the same tone,
Though the housekeeper was not prepared for Vargrave's arrival at so early an hour, yet he had been daily expected: the logs soon burned bright in the ample hearth of the breakfast-room; the urn hissed, the cutlets smoked; and while the rest of the party gathered round the fire, and unmuffled themselves of cloaks and shawl-handkerchiefs, Vargrave seized upon the housekeeper, traversed with delighted steps the magnificent suite of rooms, gazed on the pictures, admired the state bed-chambers, peeped into the offices, and recognized in all a mansion worthy of a Peer of England, but which a more prudent man would have thought, with a sigh, required careful management of the rent-roll raised from the property adequately to equip and maintain.
"Now, sir," said Vargrave, to Maltravers, "I am willing to leave you in possession of the field. Miss Cameron, it will be, I fear, impossible for me to entertain any longer the bright hopes I had once formed; my cruel fate compels me to seek wealth in any matrimonial engagement.
He had known Maltravers ambitious; and with him, ambition and self-interest meant the same. Thus, by the very finesse of his character while Vargrave ever with the worldly was a keen and almost infallible observer with natures of a more refined, or a higher order, he always missed the mark by overshooting.
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