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All the girls were after him, and Alice Sprague, whose father is the richest man in Hinksville, fell desperately in love with him and carried on like a fool; but he wouldn't take any notice of her. He never looked at anybody but me." Her face lit up with a reminiscent smile, and then clouded again. "I hate him now," she exclaimed, with a change of tone that startled Woburn.
I wish he would choose some other companions," said Mr. Woburn, who had scarcely noticed their previous conversation. "You see how papa finds fault with him," whispered Julia to her cousin. "Ruth, I want you to come to my room for a few minutes," said Mrs. Woburn; and her niece followed her upstairs.
Constance at length ventured to ask. Lady Ogram delayed her answer for a moment, then, speaking thickly in her tired voice, and with slow emphasis: "I'm glad to know him. Beyond a doubt, he is the coming man." On his return, Lashmar found a letter from Mrs. Woolstan awaiting him at Upper Woburn Place.
His generous acquaintance entertained him cordially, and lent him a sum of money, which not only carried his family through the worst of the winter, but enabled him to continue his experiments on a small scale. O.B. Coolidge, of Woburn, was the name of this benefactor.
The spirit in which she bore the first overwhelming passion of grief may be best seen in the letters written by her to Doctor Fitzwilliam, who had been chaplain at Woburn, and who afterwards returned them to Mr. Solwood, the librarian there, by whom they were published. In 1819 another volume of letters was published, from the originals in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire.
Woburn felt more anger than he dared to show at such a time, just after his son's deliverance from a horrible fate, and he turned the subject by applauding Ruth's presence of mind and bravery. "Don't praise me, I can't bear it! I am as bad as Gerald!" she sobbed, and rushed away to her own room. Before daylight the next morning Mrs. Woburn was at her door with a steaming cup of coffee.
There was a dismal exultation in her tone, as though she were paying Woburn off for having underrated her offense. She had certainly surprised him; at worst he had expected a quarrel over a rival, with a possible complication of mother-in-law. He wondered how such helpless little feet could have taken so bold a step; then he remembered that there is no audacity like that of weakness.
Doubtless faithfully rendered in the old print, here reproduced, of Fielding's blind half-brother, assistant, and successor, Sir John Fielding, hearing a Bow Street case. Middlesex Records. From the hitherto unpublished autograph, now at Woburn Abbey. This hitherto unpublished letter is now in the British Museum.
"From what you tell me it is clear that Sally must not remain in Southwick a day longer than can be helped. I will take her with me to Woburn; and I think she had better go abroad as soon as we can hear of some one in whose charge we can place her. But it must not be a sea voyage there is nothing more dangerous than to be on board a ship for a young girl who is at all inclined to be fast.
Accordingly the Duke of Wellington was a frequent visitor at Woburn Abbey, and showed consistent friendliness to Lord Russell and his many brothers, all of whom were full of anecdotes illustrative of his grim humour and robust common sense. Let a few of them be recorded.
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