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With all his address, diplomacy was not among the chief of his talents. With high personages he took a high tone. Innocent X gave 10,000 crowns to the Cause; but they quarrelled; and the Pope went so far as to accuse Digby of misappropriation of the money. Digby, a man of clean hands, seems to have taken up the Queen's quarrel.
Evidently these sounds did not come from the cob. Kenelm looked over the gate, and saw a few yards distant in a grass field a well-dressed boy struggling violently against a stout middle-aged man who was rudely hauling him along by the arm. The chivalry natural to a namesake of the valiant Sir Kenelm Digby was instantly aroused.
Meanwhile, I am already rich enough to have realized the two dreams of my heart, to make a home in the cottage where I had last seen you and Helen I mean Miss Digby; and to invite to that home her who had sheltered my infancy." "Your mother, where is she? Let me see her."
There was a French book in verse, the other day, translated and presented to the Duke of Monmouth in such a high stile, that the Duke of York, he tells me, was mightily offended at it. And that the King should say, that he would soon see whether he was King, or Digby.
I'll chuck him out of there on his head if he has been tormenting that child with his compliments and it would be just like the old scoundrel, too." He took several steps forward. "Do be careful!" murmured his wife, following faithfully. Digby threw open the door defiantly and stood glaring into the little room. A big, portly man was seated near the stove, little Helen on his knee.
'You cannot; you must not; you ought not! Kind, generous Digby! Pardon what I have said; forget it; but indeed I am so wretched, I can bear this life no longer. 'But you shall not be wretched, Henrietta; you shall be happy; everybody shall be happy. I am Armine's friend, I am indeed. I will prove it. On my honour, I will prove that I am his best friend. 'You must not.
Peter Digby seemed to begin a new chapter of life for the entire household. He took it for granted, whether intentionally or in ignorance, that his friend's marriage was a normal one, and proceeded to organize amusements and means of enjoying his stay with them to the full. He booked theatre seats and arranged dinners, and refused to listen when Forrester protested.
She was of the family of Lord Digby, and had married Lord Ellenborough, Governor-General of India, a man much older than herself, when she was quite a girl. The marriage was against her wish. She was very unhappy with him, and she ran away with Prince Schwartzenburg when she was only nineteen, and Lord Ellenborough divorced her.
They would have nothing to do with Montrose's plan, and talked of him as a would-be Hotspur. Among the King's English counsellors, of course, there were few that could judge of his enterprise. One of these, however, whom a kindred daring of spirit drew to Montrose, helped him all he could. This was the young Lord Digby. Chiefly by his means, the King's hesitations were at length overcome.
Evelyn records how Digby "advised me to try and digest a little better, and gave me a water which he said was only raine water of the autumnal equinox exceedingly rectified, and smelt like aqua fortis." Here, at last, we have come to the end of Sir Kenelm the amateur.
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