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In short, it was very plain that Leicester meant to be more absolute than ever. As to the flat contradiction given to Buckhurst's proceedings in the matter of peace, that statement could scarcely deceive any one who had seen her Majesty's letters and instructions to her envoy.
It was the midnight following the morning when this conversation took place, that Coningsby, alone, and having just quitted a rather boisterous party of wassailers who had been celebrating at Buckhurst's rooms the triumph of 'Eton Statesmen, if not of Conservative principles, stopped in the precincts of that Royal College that reminded him of his schooldays, to cool his brow in the summer air, that even at that hour was soft, and to calm his mind in the contemplation of the still, the sacred, and the beauteous scene that surrounded him.
To become a dean was once the height of Buckhurst's ambition, that for which in a moment of elation he prayed, scarcely hoping that his wishes would ever be fulfilled: yet now that his wish was accomplished, and that he had attained this height of his ambition, was he happy? No! far from it; farther than ever. How could he be happy dissatisfied with his conduct, and detesting his wife?
The commissioner understood it all too quickly. He saw how it had happened through Buckhurst's carelessness. At the time Buckhurst had been packing up these papers, some of Mr. Percy's had been lying on the table Buckhurst had been charged not to mix them with his father's; but he was in love, and did not know what he was doing.
Buckhurst's hopes of obtaining literary celebrity being lost, he sunk another step, and now contented himself with the kind of notoriety which can be gained by a man of talents, who condescends to be the wit of private circles and of public dinners. Still he met with many competitors in this line.
"The accounts you have heard of Buckhurst's marriage are, alas! too true; and what you have been told of the lady's age and ugliness is not exaggerated.
I know of no Parisian adventure so degrading as certain pranks of Buckhurst's, which I would not dare mention in your hearing. We imitate them, and out-herod Herod, but we are never like them. We send to Paris for our clothes, and borrow their newest words for they are ever inventing some cant phrase to startle dulness and we make our language a foreign farrago.
Buckhurst sent to the Netherlands Alarming State of Affairs on his Arrival His Efforts to conciliate Democratic Theories of Wilkes Sophistry of the Argument Dispute between Wilkes and Barneveld Religious Tolerance by the States Their Constitutional Theory Deventer's bad Counsels to Leicester Their pernicious Effect Real and supposed Plots against Hohenlo Mutual Suspicion and Distrust Buckhurst seeks to restore good Feeling The Queen angry and vindictive She censures Buckhurst's Course Leicester's wrath at Hohenlo's Charges of a Plot by the Earl to murder him Buckhurst's eloquent Appeals to the Queen Her perplexing and contradictory Orders Despair of Wilkes Leicester announces his Return His Instructions Letter to Junius Barneveld denounces him in the States.
There was something in Buckhurst's fervent resolution very lovable and a little humorous, just enough to put one in good temper with human nature and life.
In short, it was very plain that Leicester meant to be more absolute than ever. As to the flat contradiction given to Buckhurst's proceedings in the matter of peace, that statement could scarcely deceive any one who had seen her Majesty's letters and instructions to her envoy.
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