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Updated: May 10, 2025
Vavasour has just been with me to say that he intends to resign his seat for the county when Parliament meets, and agreeing with me that there is no one so fit to succeed him as yourself, he suggests the keeping his intention secret until you have arranged your committee and are prepared to take the field.
On this occasion though, to her dread, he appeared sentimentally inclined, and Cecil, to whom a Sir Lancelot even would have been intolerable had he attempted to take the place of the lover she had outwardly discarded and inwardly enshrined, took refuge with Jack Vavasour, who regarded the approaching campaign in about the same light as a steeple-chase a delightful piece of excitement, with a spice of danger in it.
"If the sovereign could only know her best friends," said Sir Vavasour, with a sigh. Lord Marney seemed to get uneasy. "And avoid the fatal mistakes of her predecessor," continued the baronet. "Charles, another glass of claret," said the earl. "She might yet rally round the throne a body of men" "Then we will go to the ladies," said the earl, abruptly disturbing his guest.
"Of a worshipful vavasour that owned this hold, and of Messire Gawain, King Arthur's nephew, and his mother. Sir," saith the priest, "Messire Gawain was born there within and held up and baptized, as you may see here imaged, and he was named Gawain for the sake of the lord of this castle that had that name. His mother, that had him by King Lot, would not that it should be known.
But he spent many, many half-hours walking up and down in front of the glass rehearsing his part which consisted of the words, 'Ah, Miss Vavasour, how charming you look a true Queen of Night!
I have to do it in an apparently supercilious but really admiring tone, to show that all the servants think Miss Vavasour had taken the bracelet, but that I am certain it isn't true. Frank Luscombe, it seems, used to say the words without any expression at all, just "Miss Vavasour!" like that, in an unmeaning sort of way. 'I see.
"She has only fainted," Mrs. Vavasour said, answering his look: "I will recover her. But pray, pray go!" He laid the light burden that scarcely weighed upon his arm down on the pillows, very softly and gently, smoothing them mechanically with his hand.
An adventurous group were tying a dozen or more toboggins together, which they called an omnibus; and Jack Vavasour, in the character of conductor, was holding up his hand, and cadging for passengers. "Any more for the Brook or Gore Vale? Room for two still in the 'Lightning' 'bus! No more? then we are off. Link arms, ladies and gentlemen;" and the unwieldy apparatus was started.
I addressed the envelope first, to steady myself: "To "His Grace "The Duke of Torquilstone, "Vavasour House, "St. James's, S.W." Then I put that aside. "I am Evangeline Travers who writes," I began, without any preface; "and I ask if you will see me either here in my sitting-room this evening, or I will come to you at Vavasour House.
The history saith that Perceval is come into a hold, there where his sister was in the house of a vavasour that was a right worshipful man. Each day the damsel made great dole of the knight that was to take her, for the day was already drawing somewhat nigh, and she knew not that he was dead. Full often lamented she the Widow Lady her mother, that in like sort made great dole for her daughter.
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