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A mightier de Burgo than any that had yet appeared was to see in his house, in the year 1286, "the hostages of all Connaught;" but his life and death form a distinct epoch in our story and must be treated separately.
"Perhaps I have been wrong in following you," said Mr Palliser, "but I thought you were in distress, and that probably I might help you. My name is Palliser." "Plantagenet Palliser?" said Burgo, jumping up on to his legs and looking close into the other's face. "By heavens! it is Plantagenet Palliser! Well, Mr Palliser, what do you want of me?" "I want to be of some use to you, if I can.
Burgo was still looking at the fireplace; and he sat on, looking and still looking, but he said nothing. "You can think of what I have said, Burgo," continued his aunt, meaning that he should get up and go. But he did not go. "Have you anything more that you wish to say to me?" she asked. "I've got no money," said Burgo, still looking at the fireplace.
Probably she has not. And if she has, probably you would fail in carrying out your plan." "I must get a little money first," said Burgo. "And that's an operation which no doubt you find more difficult every day, as you grow older." "It seems to be much the same sort of thing. I went to Magruin this morning." "He's the fellow that lives out near Gray's Inn Lane?"
It would have been all right if she had come to Monkshade." "I've got no money for you, Burgo. I have not five pounds belonging to me." "But you've got ?" "What?" said Lady Monk, interrupting him sharply. "Would Cosmo lend it me?" said he, hesitating to go on with that suggestion which he had been about to make. The Cosmo of whom he spoke was not his uncle, but his cousin.
After this, Burgo left his aunt, and went away to his club, in a state of most happy excitement. The Last Kiss Alice, on her return from Westmoreland, went direct to Park Lane, whither Lady Glencora and Mr Palliser had also returned before her. She was to remain with them in London one entire day, and on the morning after that they were to start for Paris.
She knew much of the world and its ways, and told herself no lies about this. But, as I have said before, she did not count herself for much. What though she were ruined? What though Burgo were false, mean, and untrustworthy? She loved him, and he was the only man she ever had loved!
Indeed, I shan't; not a minute longer. Don't, now; will you? I tell you she's waiting for me." From which it may be seen that Lucy shared the general feminine feeling in favour of poor Burgo.
There she sat down, not having seen Lady Monk, and meditated over her injuries. It was past eleven before Lady Glencora arrived, and Burgo Fitzgerald had begun to think that his evil stars intended that he should never see her again.
Abb. St. Petri de Burgo, p. 55. The escheats were a great branch both of power and of revenue, especially during the first reigns after the Conquest. In default of posterity from the first baron, his land reverted to the crown, and continually augmented the king's possessions.
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