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But it was Stuart against Stuart this time; so who could tell with whom the victory would lie? So I was thinking to myself, when suddenly the Duke looked up. "Mr. Mallock," he said, "I hear that you have a very persuasive manner with both men and women. There is an exceedingly difficult commission which I wish you would execute for me. You have spoken with the Duchess of Portsmouth?"
He was the one priest of English blood who was tolerated openly and legally in England, and who had leave to wear his habit, for his saving of the King's life after the battle of Worcester. "So you are home again, Mr. Mallock," he said in his cheery voice. I told him Yes; and that I was come for a good time. "And His Majesty?" he said. "Have you seen him?
My compliments to Mr. Somers, and ask at what speed he wishes to run." Seaman Mallock soon returned, saluting. "Ensign Somers' compliments sir, and the ensign replies that Mr. Farley is in command of the deck." "Very good, then," nodded Midshipman Farley, and set the indicator at the twenty mark. Ten minutes later Lieutenant Benson reappeared on deck. First of all he noted the "Dodger's" position.
It will be best if you take me straight to those who have authority to question me." He did not move. "You had best sit down again, Mr. Mallock. I do not say that I do not believe you. But I will allow that I do not know what to think. You are a very shrewd man, sir; and it truly is beyond my understanding that you should have forgotten so completely this most vital matter.
Then the Duke lost his self-command; and his heavy face lightened with a kind of anger. "Mr. Mallock," he said, "you have said enough. These good Fathers have imperilled their lives for England; if any have a right to speak, it is they; and I would sooner listen to their counsel than to all the Cardinals in Christendom.
"I am getting an old man, Mr. Mallock," he said, suddenly turning on me; "and I would that affairs were better settled than they are. They are better than they were I do not dispute that but these endless little matters distress me. Why cannot folk be at peace and charitable one with another?" I said nothing; but I knew of what he was thinking.
"I can get no evidence, even to warn His Majesty, though I have told him what I think. And, to tell the truth, I believe His Majesty to be safe enough. But that does not hinder them from wishing to have their revenge. Mr. Mallock " "Yes," I said, still all bewildered. "I wonder what he will attempt next," said Mr. Chiffinch.
Mallock, knowing that there was a plot against their lives of which the Rye was the centre despatched a messenger to His Majesty bidding him come immediately, by the road that leads past the Rye, instead of directing him by Royston." At that monstrous charge my spirit almost went from me. That it should be this thing, above all others that should be brought against me!
One of these, as stated by a writer who confessed himself otherwise in entire agreement with me, was this: "It is impossible, as Mr. Mallock attempts to do, to draw a hard-and-fast line between mental effort and muscular." No such attempt is made. Further, I pointed out that, in a technical sense, the same effort may be either an effort of labour or ability, according to its application.
So they sat and watched the comedy and the unconscious actors playing their parts, and felt that the air was filled with heavy sensuous perfume, and the lights were garish, and that there was wanting entirely that keen cool atmosphere which Mallock calls 'the ozone of respectability'.
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