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Updated: June 12, 2025
You had better be here sharp at ten to-morrow. Mr. Jerningham bids me tell you. Yours truly, Thus Crocker got through his troubles on this occasion. On the day on which Crocker was going through his purgatory at the Post Office, a letter reached Lady Kingsbury at Trafford Park, which added much to the troubles and annoyances felt by different members of the family there.
"And your fortune, in the meanwhile?" said Jerningham; "pardon this last hint, my lord." "My fortune," said the Duke, "is too vast to be hurt by a petty wound; and I have, as thou knowest, a thousand salves in store for the scratches and scars which it sometimes receives in greasing my machinery." "Your Grace does not mean Dr. Wilderhead's powder of projection?"
With hands and eyes uplifted, Jerningham left the apartment; and the Duke, without thinking a moment farther on old or new intrigues on the friendship he had formed, or the enmity he had provoked on the beauty whom he had carried off from her natural protectors, as well as from her lover or on the monarch against whom he had placed himself in rivalship, sat down to calculate chances with all the zeal of Demoivre, tired of the drudgery in half-an-hour, and refused to see the zealous agent whom he had employed in the city, because he was busily engaged in writing a new lampoon.
"I think it becoming in one who takes the Queen's pay to show a becoming anxiety as to the Queen's aristocracy. I have the greatest respect for the Marquis of Kingsbury. Have not you, Mr. Jerningham?" "Certainly I have. But if you would go to your work instead of talking so much it would be better for everybody." "I am at my work already. Do you think that I cannot work and talk at the same time?
"Nevertheless, I do wonder what Lord Hampstead has had for his lunch." This was the last shot, and after that the five gentlemen did in truth settle down to their afternoon's work. When four o'clock came Mr. Jerningham with praiseworthy punctuality took his hat and departed.
Even Jerningham, who knew the depths and the shallows of his master's mood, and was bold to fathom them at almost every state of his passions, kept out of his way on the present occasion; and, cabineted with the pious old housekeeper, declared to her, over a bottle of ratafia, that, in his apprehension, if his Grace did not learn to put some control on his temper, chains, darkness, straw, and Bedlam, would be the final doom of the gifted and admired Duke of Buckingham.
"If the Duke of Middlesex did call himself Mr. Smith," said Bobbin, "any gentleman that was a gentleman would fall in with his views." Crocker, not conquered, but for the moment silenced, seated himself in a dudgeon at his desk. It might do very well for poor fellows, weak creatures like Jerningham, Bobbin, and Geraghty, thus to be done out of their prey; but he would not be cheated in that way.
But Swainson's is the fairest and most careful account of the time from the official, philo-Maori and anti-Company side, and may be taken as a safe antidote to Jerningham Wakefield, Sir W.T. Power, Hursthouse, and others. A comparison with Rusden, when the two are on the same ground, shows Swainson to be the better writer all round.
"But there you are, Bev! Not a word about money, so downstairs Bristles must continue to sit until " "If," said Barnabas diffidently, "if you would allow me to lend " "No, no, Bev though I swear it's uncommon good of you. But really I couldn't allow it. Besides, Jerningham owes me something, I believe, at least, if he doesn't he did, and it's all one anyway.
Needful I do something to maintain my good name in the city, to atone for non-attendance on prayer and preaching. But your Laertes is fast in the Fleet; and I suppose his blundering blockhead of an antagonist is dead or dying." "Recovering, my lord, on the contrary," replied Jerningham; "the blade fortunately avoided his vitals." "D n his vitals!" answered the Duke.
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