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There was positively a tear in Vargrave's cold eye, the only tear that had glistened there for many years; he paused irresolute, then advanced, again halted, muttered to himself, and turned aside. "As for the world," Lumley resumed, after a pause, "your engagement has been public, some public account of its breach must be invented.
Your Lordship's most obedient and most obliged humble servant, GUSTAVUS DOUCE. To the Right Hon. LORD VARGRAVE, etc. This letter sharpened Lord Vargrave's anxiety and resolve; nay, it seemed almost to sharpen his sharp features as he muttered sundry denunciations on Messrs. Douce and Co., while arranging his neckcloth at the glass. Sol.
We should always go by their opinions. I think I will take the queen's pawn your politics are the same as Lord Vargrave's?" "Yes, I fancy so: at least I shall leave my proxy with him. Glad you don't like politics, great bore." "Why, so young, so connected as you are " Caroline stopped short, and made a wrong move.
Here the premier, with a tact that nobody could be duped by, but every one could admire, stripped Lord Vargrave's unlucky sentences of every syllable that could give offence to any one; and left the pointed epigrams and vehement denunciations a most harmless arrangement of commonplace. The House was much excited; there was a call for Lord Vargrave, and Lord Vargrave promptly rose.
The slim secretary went to inspect the cathedral. Mr. Winsley was a little, thickset man, with a civil but blunt electioneering manner. He started when he heard Lord Vargrave's name, and bowed with great stiffness. Vargrave saw at a glance that there was some cause of grudge in the mind of the worthy man; nor did Mr. Winsley long hesitate before he cleansed his bosom of its perilous stuff.
He turned away towards Evelyn as he spoke, and almost started to observe that she was joined by a stranger, whose approach he had not before noticed, and that stranger a man of such remarkable personal advantages, that, had Maltravers been in Vargrave's position, he might reasonably have experienced a pang of jealous apprehension.
All her usual penetration had of late settled in self; and an uneasy feeling half arising from conscientious reluctance to aid Vargrave's objects, half from jealous irritation at the thought of Vargrave's marrying another had prevented her from seeking any very intimate or confidential communication with Evelyn herself.
At this time, it was noticeable that the journals of the Government that succeeded were peculiarly polite to Lord Vargrave, while they covered all his coadjutors with obloquy: and it was more than suspected that secret negotiations between himself and the new ministry were going on, when suddenly the latter broke up, and Lord Vargrave's proper party were reinstated.
The conversation, chiefly sustained by Cleveland and Vargrave, fell on public questions; and as one was opposed to the other, Vargrave's exposition of views and motives had in them so much of the self-seeking of the professional placeman, that they might well have offended any man tinged by the lofty mania of political Quixotism.
I pass over the tortures I endured. By a train of incidents to be related to you hereafter, I was led to suspect the truth of Vargrave's tale. I came hither; I have learned all from Aubrey.
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