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Fairfield's arm in his, and led her into the house; but when he had got her safe into his parlour Leonard following all the time and the door was closed upon those three, then Richard Avenel's ire burst forth. "You impudent, ungrateful, audacious drab!" Yes, drab was the word. I am shocked to say it, but the duties of a historian are stern: and the word was drab.
And yet yet you know his haste, his vehemence, if he learned that you were his rival, her husband; you whom he so trusted! What, what would be the result? -I tremble!" "Tremble not, I do not tremble! Let me go! Egerton went forth, stunned and dizzy. Mechanically he took his way across the park to John Avenel's house.
"I will agree to return one of your candidates; but it must not be Audley Egerton." Harley whispered close in Avenel's ear. Avenel uttered an exclamation of amazement. The two gentlemen walked on rapidly, and conversing with great eagerness.
Soon afterwards the sound of the Knight of Avenel's trumpets was heard, and the Abbot went to the top of the tower, from whose dismantled battlements he could soon see the horsemen ascending the rising ground in the direction of the drawbridge. As he gazed, Magdalen Graeme came to his side. "Thou art come," he said, "to catch the last glimpse of thy grandson, my sister.
And yet yet you know his haste, his vehemence, if he learned that you were his rival, her husband; you whom he so trusted! What, what would be the result? I tremble!" "Tremble not, I do not tremble! Let me go! Egerton went forth, stunned and dizzy. Mechanically he took his way across the park to John Avenel's house.
John Avenel's vote for Egerton gave another turn to the vicissitudes of that memorable election.
He tells me that my poor mother is very restless and uneasy, because he cannot assure her that he has heard from me; and his letter requires an answer. Indeed I shall seem very ungrateful to him to all if I do not write." Richard Avenel's brows met. He uttered an impatient "Pish!" and turned away.
There it sees the operations of money on the outer life; sees all the ruder and commoner springs of action; sees ambition without nobleness, love without romance; is bustled about and ordered and trampled and cowed, in short, it passes an apprenticeship with some Richard Avenel, and does not detect what good and what grandeur, what addition even to the true poetry of the social universe, fractional existences like Richard Avenel's bestow; for the pillars that support society are like those of the Court of the Hebrew Tabernacle, they are of brass, it is true, but they are filleted with silver.
The usher appeared, and, in a more civil tone of voice and manner, said, that his Grace the Regent would receive the Knight of Avenel's message; and accordingly marshalled Roland Graeme the way into the apartment, from which the Council had been just dismissed, after finishing their consultations.
"If you know the town, sir, perhaps you will have the goodness to tell me whereabouts Mr. Avenel lives?" "I can put you into a straight cut across the fields, that will bring you just behind the house." "You are very kind, but it will take you out of your way." "No, it is in my way. So you are going to Mr. Avenel's? a good old gentleman." "I've always heard so; and Mrs. Avenel "
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