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"And thinks I to myself, 'What may you be doing here, my lad, at this hour of the night? For as you know that lane, Mr. Brent, you'll know that on one side of it there's nothing but the long wall of Mrs. Saumarez's garden and grounds, and on the other a belt of trees that shuts off Robinson's market-garden and orchards. I was safe hidden amongst those trees.
"You know what I mean to go on with his work." Mrs. Saumarez's eyes sparkled. "That would be splendid!" she exclaimed. "But, if he had opposition, you'll have it a hundred-fold! You're not afraid?" "Afraid of nothing," said Brent carelessly. "But I just don't know how I'd get any right to do it. I'm not a townsman I've no locus standi. But, then he wasn't, to begin with."
In Saumarez's childhood, French was still so generally spoken there that, despite the very early age at which he went to sea, he always retained a perfect mastery of that language; and it is recorded that one of his uncles, being intended for the sea service, was sent to school in England when ten years old, in order to acquire the use of English.
As Miss Copleigh and I limped up, he came forward to meet us, and, when he helped her down from her saddle, he kissed her before all the picnic. It was like a scene in a theatre, and the likeness was heightened by all the dust-white, ghostly-looking men and women under the orange-trees, clapping their hands, as if they were watching a play at Saumarez's choice.
In such an encounter there would be inestimable tactical advantage in those compact subdivisions, which could be thrown as units, under a single head, in a required direction. For such a charge Saumarez possessed most eminent capacity. The warm family affection that was among the many winning traits of Saumarez's symmetrical and attractive character impelled him to copious letter-writing.
Was he mistaken in thinking that it was an unmistakable sigh of relief that left Mrs. Saumarez's delicate red lips and that an additional little flush of colour came into her cheeks? But her voice was calm and even enough. "Thank you," she said. "So good of you. Of course, they aren't of the faintest interest to anybody. I can have them, then when?" Brent rose to his feet.
"And a Reform man?" "He's Councillor for the Riverside Ward," answered Tansley, "and a regular Radical. In fact he, Wallingford, and that chap Epplewhite, were the three recognized leaders of the Reform party. Yes, Wellesley stuck to Wallingford as leader even when it became pretty evident that Wallingford had ousted him in Mrs. Saumarez's affections fact!" "Affections, eh?" surmised Brent.
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