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He ordered a fly at the Prince of Wales's Hotel, and drove to Keswick, whence he went on to the Lodore. The gloom and spaciousness of Derwentwater, grey in the gathering dusk, suited his humour better than the emerald prettiness of Grasmere the roar of the waterfall made music in his ear.
From thence we went to Borrowdale, by the side of Derwentwater, and afterward to Ulswater and home by the fine pass of Kirkstone. On my return, I found the Duke and Duchess of Argyle had been to see us. The time of closing the despatch bag has come and I must hurry over my delight at the scenery of the lakes. I could have spent a month there, much to my mind.
Derwentwater, after his week's visit, should go on where seemed to him good. There was a considerable party gathered in the inner drawing-room when Jock and his companion presented themselves there. The scene was very different from that to which Jock had been accustomed, when the tea-table was a sort of fireside adjunct to the warmth and brightness centred there.
He says eight hundred persons were put to death for the last Rebellion I don't believe a quarter of the number were: and he makes the first Lord Derwentwater who, poor man! was in no such high-spirited mood bring his son, who by the way was not above a year and a half old, upon the scaffold to be sprinkled with his blood.
"There is no age," said Mr. Derwentwater, "at which one can be too serious and especially in youth, when all the world is before one, when one cannot tell what effect a careless step may have one way or another. It is just that sweet gravity that charms me. I think she was quite out of her element, excuse me for saying so, Lady Randolph, last night." "Do you think so? Oh, I am afraid not.
The inscription on the cross reads: "To the memory of James and Charles, Viscounts Langley, Earls of Derwentwater, beheaded on Tower Hill, London, 24th February, 1716, and 8th December, 1746, for loyalty to their lawful sovereign." A striking testimony, this, to the fact that freedom in England is a reality, and not merely a name.
"Jock, I think Mr. Derwentwater is rather grand in his writing. It looks as if he thought a great deal of himself." "No, he doesn't," said Jock, hotly, "not half enough. He's the best man we've got, and yet he can't see it. You needn't give me any information about MTutor," added the young gentleman, "for naturally I know all that much better than you. But I want to know about the Churchills.
We beat them back handsomely, and Derwentwater with his cavalry charged their dragoons so fiercely that he drove them out of the town. It was late in the afternoon when the fight began, and all night the struggle went on. At each of our posts we beat them back over and over again. The town was on fire in half a dozen places, but luckily the night was still and the flames did not spread.
In support of this was the volunteer horse under Derwentwater and the three other lords. Lord Charles Murray was in command at a barricade at a little distance from the churchyard. Colonel Mackintosh had charge of a post at a windmill; and the fourth was in the centre of the town. "Lord Derwentwater was a poor general, but he was a brave man.
Both of these gentlemen were eagerly questioned by the ladies next them as to who this young lady might be. "Terribly theatrical, don't you think, to come into a room like that?" said the mother of the girls in blue. "If my Minnie or Edith had been asked to do it they would have died of shame." "I do not deny," said Mr. Derwentwater, "the advantage of conventional restraints.
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