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One week later, the remains arrived from Welbeck at Harcourt House, to be entombed in the family vault of the Bentincks, that is to be found in a small building in a dingy street, now a chapel of ease, but in old days the parish church among the fields of the pretty village of Marylebone. The day of interment was dark, and cold, and drizzling.
"I now fixed my eyes steadfastly upon him, and spoke: 'How much a stranger are you to the feelings of Welbeck! How poor a judge of his cowardice! I take your pistol, and consent to your conditions. "We took opposite sides of the table. 'Are you ready? he cried; 'fire! "Both triggers were drawn at the same instant. Both pistols were discharged. Mine was negligently raised.
There was no reason to suppose that this sound was connected with the detection of me in this situation; yet I acted as if this reason existed, and made haste to pass the door and gain the second flight of steps. I was unable to accomplish my design, when the chamber door slowly opened, and Welbeck, with a light in his hand, came out. I was abashed and disconcerted at this interview.
From the branches cut off at that time a cabinet was made for the Countess of Oxford a fine piece of furniture, inlaid with a representation of her spouse driving his chariot and six through the opening. Horace Walpole, in 1756, writes in his usual acid style: "I went to Welbeck.
Clumber is rich in ornaments, among them being four ancient Roman altars, but the most striking feature is the full-rigged ship which with a consort rests upon the placid bosom of the lake. Adjoining Clumber Park is the most celebrated of "The Dukeries," Welbeck Abbey, which is one of the remarkable estates of England, a place peculiar to itself.
The vivid portrait which Mervyn had drawn was conspicuous in the sunken and haggard visage before me. This face had, indeed, proportions and lines which could never be forgotten or mistaken. Welbeck, when once seen or described, was easily distinguished from the rest of mankind.
Sir Felix trying to make his way to Welbeck Street and losing it at every turn, feeling himself to be an object of ridicule to every wanderer, and of dangerous suspicion to every policeman, got no good at all out of his intoxication. What had he better do with himself? He fumbled in his pocket, and managed to get hold of his ticket for New York. Should he still make the journey?
He had been drinking freely before he went up to Welbeck Street, and had taken a glass of brandy on re-entering the club. 'Don't let's have any of that kind of thing down here, said Dolly. 'If there is to be a row about cards, let it be in the card-room. 'Of course, said Miles. 'I won't say a word about the matter down here. It isn't the proper thing.
The pamphlet is reprinted, together with other interesting matter remotely connected with Lamb, in Letters from the Originals at Welbeck Abbey, privately printed, 1909. Elia. Essays which have appeared under that signature in the London Magazine, was published early in 1823.
When in Nottinghamshire he used to hunt with the Bufford hounds and kept his hunters at Welbeck. He was a Freemason, though he does not appear to have had time from his devotion to politics and racing to take any high position in the Order. As to some of his personal habits it may be said that he was not a smoker; but he drank four glasses of wine at dinner-time.
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