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Updated: May 21, 2025
"As-ton-ish-ing!" said my Lord Whiffledale. "Is that Mr Ralph Rattlin?" "The same, my lord," said Captain Reud. "Shall I introduce him to your lordship?" "By no manner of means yet for his father's sake really ridiculous! Henry, the fifth baron of Whiffledale ah! black eyes, filthy costume, very particularly filthy, upon my honour. How is this, Captain Reud?
There was a pause for some minutes, during which Lord Whiffledale was preparing to be imposing, and the light of mischief began to beam with incipient insanity in Reud's eye. "Certainly," I said to myself, "he will not dare to practise one of his mad pranks upon a lord of the Admiralty!" What will not madness dare?
But I was not idle; on descending into the coffee-room, I procured the Court Guide; but my most anxious scrutiny could discover no such person among the baronets as Sir Reginald Rattlin. Paying my bill, I next went to Somerset House, and drew my pay; I then repaired to the aristocratic mansion of Lord Whiffledale, in Grosvenor Square.
Lord Whiffledale read this letter over three times distinctly; then, from his usual white he turned a palish purple, then again became white. In no other manner did he seem to lose his self-possession. "Dr Thompson," said he, at length, very calmly, "let me see some of these documents immediately." "Anticipating the request, my lord, I have them with me."
After Joshua had departed, the other persons remaining in the after-cabin followed shortly after, with the exception of myself; for Reud told me to stay where I then was, until he should see me again. In the course of an hour, Lord Whiffledale went on shore with his cortege; and Captain Reud returned into the after-cabin, which I had been, during his absence, disconsolately pacing.
Here was a critical situation for me! I was, in a manner, spell-bound. Afraid to interrupt the conference, I bethought me that my Lord Whiffledale would be no less my father wet or dry, and so I determined to let things take their course.
Lord Whiffledale and Captain Reud being seated with their backs to the cabin-windows, and I standing before them with the light full upon my disfigured face, I must have had a great deal more the look of a battered blackguard, being tried for petty larceny, than a young gentleman on the eve of being acknowledged the heir to greatness by a very noble lord.
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