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Nor was it by any means the only skill he might have boasted, for Jeronymo de Samoval was in many things, a very subtle, supple gentleman.
You have disregarded it already, sir." "How so?" "The letter of the law is against sending or receiving a challenge, I think." O'Moy was distracted. "Samoval," he said, drawing himself up, "I will admit that I have been a fool. I will apologise to you for the blow and for the word that accompanied it." "The apology would imply that my statement was a true one and that you recognised it.
Honour and pride demanded that he should keep the appointment made with Samoval; common sense urged him at all costs to avoid it. His frame of mind, you see, was not at all enviable.
Remembering it now, it discovered to him at once Sir Terence's most vulnerable spot, and cunningly Samoval proceeded to gall him there. A smile spread gradually over his white face a smile of immeasurable malice. "I am having a very interesting and instructive morning in this atmosphere of Irish boorishness," said he. "First Captain Tremayne "
"So indeed he is. But the major in question was La Fleche nevertheless." "And Samoval knew this?" Sir Terence was incredulous. Colonel Grant did not immediately answer the question. He preferred to continue his narrative. "That night I had the false major arrested very quietly. I have caused him to disappear for the present.
"Awkward, of course," said Samoval, who had never for a moment been oblivious of that enactment, and who had been carefully building upon it. "But you should have considered it before committing yourself so irrevocably." Sir Terence steadied himself. He recovered his truculence. "Irrevocable or not, it will just have to be revocable. The meeting's impossible." "I do not see the impossibility.
Thus until Mullins broke in upon them with the announcement of a visit from Count Samoval, an announcement more welcome to Lady O'Moy than to either of her companions. The Portuguese nobleman was introduced. He had attained to a degree of familiarity in the adjutant's household that permitted of his being received without ceremony there at that breakfast-table spread in the open.
If you mean that " "I mean nothing of the kind. Damme! I've a mind to horsewhip you, and leave it at that. D' ye think I want to face a firing party on your account?" "I don't think there is the remotest likelihood of any such contingency," replied Samoval. But O'Moy went headlong on. "And another thing. Where will I be finding a friend to meet your friends?
There followed the evidence of Major Carruthers with regard to the dispute between Count Samoval and Captain Tremayne, which substantially bore out what Sir Terence and Colonel Grant had already said, notwithstanding that it manifested a strong bias in favour of the prisoner. "The conversation which Samoval threatened to resume does not appear to have been resumed," he added in conclusion.
"To a man of your resource and intelligence an intelligence of which you have just given such veer signal proof the matter should be possible." He paused a moment. Then: "If I understand you correctly, Monsieur de Samoval, your fortunes have suffered deeply, and you are almost ruined by this policy of Wellington's. You are offered the opportunity of making a magnificent recovery.
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