“we
must
let
what
we
were
talking
about
the
other
day
drop
.
Adriana
has
been
with
me
quite
excited
about
something
Lady
Montfort
said
to
her
.
I
soothed
her
and
assured
her
she
should
do
exactly
as
she
liked
,
and
that
neither
I
nor
her
mother
had
any
other
wishes
on
such
a
subject
than
her
own
.
The
fact
is
,
I
answered
Lady
Montfort
originally
only
half
in
earnest
.
If
the
thing
might
have
happened
,
I
should
have
been
content
—
but
it
really
never
rested
on
my
mind
,
because
such
matters
must
always
originate
with
my
daughter
.
Unless
they
come
from
her
,
with
me
they
are
mere
fancies
.
But
now
I
want
you
to
help
me
in
another
matter
,
if
not
more
grave
,
more
businesslike
.
My
lord
must
be
amused
,
although
it
is
a
family
party
.
He
likes
his
rubber
;
that
we
can
manage
.
But
there
must
be
two
or
three
persons
that
he
is
not
accustomed
to
meet
,
and
yet
who
will
interest
him
.
Now
,
do
you
know
,
Miss
Ferrars
,
whom
I
think
of
asking
?
”
“
Not
I
,
my
dear
sir
.
”
“
What
do
you
think
of
the
colonel
?
”
said
Mr.
Neuchatel
,
looking
in
her
face
with
a
rather
laughing
eye
.
“
Well
,
he
is
very
agreeable
,
”
said
Myra
,
“
and
many
would
think
interesting
,
and
if
Lord
Roehampton
does
not
know
him
,
I
think
he
would
do
very
well
.
”
“
Well
,
but
Lord
Roehampton
knows
all
about
him
,
”
said
Mr.
Neuchatel
.
“
Well
,
that
is
an
advantage
,
”
said
Myra
.
“
I
do
not
know
,
”
said
Mr.
Neuchatel
.
“
Life
is
a
very
curious
thing
,
eh
,
Miss
Ferrars
?
One
cannot
ask
one
person
to
meet
another
even
in
one’s
own
home
,
without
going
through
a
sum
of
moral
arithmetic
.
”
“
Is
it
so
?
”
said
Myra
.
“
Well
,
Miss
Ferrars
,
”
said
Mr.
Neuchatel
,
“
I
want
your
advice
and
I
want
your
aid
;
but
then
it
is
a
long
story
,
at
which
I
am
rather
a
bad
hand
,
”
and
Mr.
Neuchatel
hesitated
.
“
You
know
,
”
he
said
,
suddenly
resuming
,
“
you
once
asked
me
who
Colonel
Albert
was
.
”
“
But
I
do
not
ask
you
now
,
”
said
Myra
,
“
because
I
know
.
”
“
Hah
,
hah
!
”
exclaimed
Mr.
Neuchatel
,
much
surprised
.
“
And
what
you
want
to
know
is
,
”
continued
Myra
,
“
whether
Lord
Roehampton
would
have
any
objection
to
meet
Prince
Florestan
?
”
“
That
is
something
;
but
that
is
comparatively
easy
.
I
think
I
can
manage
that
.
But
when
they
meet
—
that
is
the
point
.
But
,
in
the
first
place
,
I
should
like
very
much
to
know
how
you
became
acquainted
with
the
secret
.
”
“
In
a
very
natural
way
;
my
brother
was
my
information
,
”
she
replied
.
“
Ah
!
now
you
see
,
”
continued
Mr.
Neuchatel
,
with
a
serious
air
,
“
a
word
from
Lord
Roehampton
in
the
proper
quarter
might
be
of
vast
importance
to
the
prince
.
He
has
a
large
inheritance
,
and
he
has
been
kept
out
of
it
unjustly
.
Our
house
has
done
what
we
could
for
him
,
for
his
mother
,
Queen
Agrippina
,
was
very
kind
to
my
father
,
and
the
house
of
Neuchatel
never
forgets
its
friends
.
But
we
want
something
else
,
we
want
the
British
Government
to
intimate
that
they
will
not
disapprove
of
the
restitution
of
the
private
fortune
of
the
prince
.
I
have
felt
my
way
with
the
premier
;
he
is
not
favourable
;
he
is
prejudiced
against
the
prince
;
and
so
is
the
cabinet
generally
;
and
yet
all
difficulties
would
vanish
at
a
word
from
Lord
Roehampton
.
”
“
Well
,
this
is
a
good
opportunity
for
you
to
speak
to
him
,
”
said
Myra
.
“
Hem
!
”
said
Mr.
Neuchatel
,
“
I
am
not
so
sure
about
that
.
I
like
Lord
Roehampton
,
and
,
between
ourselves
,
I
wish
he
were
first
minister
.
He
understands
the
Continent
,
and
would
keep
things
quiet
.
But
,
do
you
know
,
Miss
Ferrars
,
with
all
his
playful
,
good-tempered
manner
,
as
if
he
could
not
say
a
cross
word
or
do
an
unkind
act
,
he
is
a
very
severe
man
in
business
.
Speak
to
him
on
business
,
and
he
is
completely
changed
.
His
brows
knit
,
he
penetrates
you
with
the
terrible
scrutiny
of
that
deep-set
eye
;
he
is
more
than
stately
,
he
is
austere
.
I
have
been
up
to
him
with
deputations
—
the
Governor
of
the
Bank
,
and
all
the
first
men
in
the
City
,
half
of
them
M.P.s.
,
and
they
trembled
before
him
like
aspens
.
No
,
it
will
not
do
for
me
to
speak
to
him
,
it
will
spoil
his
visit
.
I
think
the
way
will
be
this
;
if
he
has
no
objection
to
meet
the
prince
,
we
must
watch
whether
the
prince
makes
a
favourable
impression
on
him
,
and
if
that
is
the
case
,
and
Lord
Roehampton
likes
him
,
what
we
must
do
next
is
this
—
you
must
speak
to
Lord
Roehampton
.
”
“
I
!
”
“
Yes
,
Miss
Ferrars
,
you
.
Lord
Roehampton
likes
ladies
.
He
is
never
austere
to
them
,
even
if
he
refuses
their
requests
,
and
sometimes
he
grants
them
.
I
thought
first
of
Mrs.
Neuchatel
speaking
to
him
,
but
my
wife
will
never
interfere
in
anything
in
which
money
is
concerned
;
then
I
thought
Adriana
might
express
a
hope
when
they
were
walking
in
the
garden
,
but
now
that
is
all
over
;
and
so
you
alone
remain
.
I
have
great
confidence
in
you
,
”
added
Mr.
Neuchatel
,
“
I
think
you
would
do
it
very
well
.
Besides
,
my
lord
rather
likes
you
,
for
I
have
observed
him
often
go
and
sit
by
you
at
parties
,
at
our
house
.
”
“
Yes
,
he
is
very
high-bred
in
that
,
”
said
Myra
,
gravely
and
rather
sadly
;
“
and
the
fact
of
my
being
a
dependent
,
I
have
no
doubt
,
influences
him
.
”
“
We
are
all
dependents
in
this
house
,
”
said
Mr.
Neuchatel
with
his
sweetest
smile
;
“
and
I
depend
upon
Miss
Ferrars
.
”
Affairs
on
the
whole
went
on
in
a
promising
manner
.
The
weather
was
delightful
,
and
Lord
Roehampton
came
down
to
Hainault
just
in
time
for
dinner
,
the
day
after
their
arrival
,
and
in
the
highest
spirits
.
He
seemed
to
be
enjoying
a
real
holiday
;
body
and
mind
were
in
a
like
state
of
expansion
;
he
was
enchanted
with
the
domain
;
he
was
delighted
with
the
mansion
,
everything
pleased
and
gratified
him
,
and
he
pleased
and
gratified
everybody
.
The
party
consisted
only
of
themselves
,
except
one
of
the
nephews
,
with
whom
indeed
Lord
Roehampton
was
already
acquainted
;
a
lively
youth
,
a
little
on
the
turf
,
not
too
much
,
and
this
suited
Lord
Roehampton
,
who
was
a
statesman
of
the
old
aristocratic
school
,
still
bred
horses
,
and
sometimes
ran
one
,
and
in
the
midst
of
an
European
crisis
could
spare
an
hour
to
Newmarket
.
Perhaps
it
was
his
only
affectation
.
Mrs.
Neuchatel
,
by
whom
he
was
seated
,
had
the
happy
gift
of
conversation
;
but
the
party
was
of
that
delightful
dimension
,
that
it
permitted
talk
to
be
general
.
Myra
sate
next
to
Lord
Roehampton
,
and
he
often
addressed
her
.
He
was
the
soul
of
the
feast
,
and
yet
it
is
difficult
to
describe
his
conversation
;
it
was
a
medley
of
graceful
whim
,
interspersed
now
and
then
with
a
very
short
anecdote
of
a
very
famous
person
,
or
some
deeply
interesting
reminiscence
of
some
critical
event
.
Every
now
and
then
he
appealed
to
Adriana
,
who
sate
opposite
to
him
in
the
round
table
,
and
she
trusted
that
her
irrepressible
smiles
would
not
be
interpreted
into
undue
encouragement
.
Lord
Roehampton
had
no
objection
to
meet
Prince
Florestan
,
provided
there
were
no
other
strangers
,
and
the
incognito
was
observed
.
He
rather
welcomed
the
proposal
,
observing
he
liked
to
know
public
men
personally
;
so
,
you
can
judge
of
their
calibre
,
which
you
never
can
do
from
books
and
newspapers
,
or
the
oral
reports
of
their
creatures
or
their
enemies
.
And
so
on
the
next
day
Colonel
Albert
was
expected
.
Lord
Roehampton
did
not
appear
till
luncheon
;
he
had
received
so
many
boxes
from
Downing
Street
which
required
his
attention
.
“
Business
will
follow
one
,
”
he
said
;
“
yesterday
I
thought
I
had
baffled
it
.
I
do
not
like
what
I
shall
do
without
my
secretaries
.
I
think
I
shall
get
you
young
ladies
to
assist
me
.
”
“
You
cannot
have
better
secretaries
,
”
said
Mr.
Neuchatel
;
“
Miss
Ferrars
often
helps
me
.
”
Then
what
was
to
be
done
after
luncheon
?
Would
he
ride
,
or
would
he
drive
?
And
where
should
they
drive
and
ride
to
?
But
Lord
Roehampton
did
not
much
care
to
drive
,
and
was
tired
of
riding
.
He
would
rather
walk
and
ramble
about
Hainault
.
He
wanted
to
see
the
place
,
and
the
forest
and
the
fern
,
and
perhaps
hear
one
of
those
nightingales
that
they
had
talked
of
in
Portland
Place
.
But
Mrs.
Neuchatel
did
not
care
to
walk
,
and
Mr.
Neuchatel
,
though
it
was
a
holiday
in
the
City
,
had
a
great
many
letters
to
write
,
and
so
somehow
or
other
it
ended
in
Lord
Roehampton
and
the
two
young
ladies
walking
out
together
,
and
remaining
so
long
and
so
late
,
that
Mrs.
Neuchatel
absolutely
contemplated
postponing
the
dinner
hour
.
“
We
shall
just
be
in
time
,
dear
Mrs.
Neuchatel
,
”
said
Myra
;
“
Lord
Roehampton
has
gone
up
to
his
rooms
.
We
have
heard
a
nightingale
,
and
Lord
Roehampton
insisted
upon
our
sitting
on
the
trunk
of
a
tree
till
it
ceased
—
and
it
never
ceased
.
”
Colonel
Albert
,
who
had
arrived
,
was
presented
to
Lord
Roehampton
before
dinner
.
Lord
Roehampton
received
him
with
stately
courtesy
.
As
Myra
watched
,
not
without
interest
,
the
proceeding
,
she
could
scarcely
believe
,
as
she
marked
the
lofty
grace
and
somewhat
haughty
mien
of
Lord
Roehampton
,
that
it
could
be
the
same
being
of
frolic
and
fancy
,
and
even
tender
sentiment
,
with
whom
she
had
been
passing
the
preceding
hours
.
Colonel
Albert
sate
next
to
Myra
at
dinner
,
and
Lord
Roehampton
between
Mrs.
Neuchatel
and
her
daughter
.
His
manner
was
different
to-day
,
not
less
pleased
and
pleasing
,
but
certainly
more
restrained
.
He
encouraged
Mrs.
Neuchatel
to
occupy
the
chief
part
in
conversation
,
and
whispered
to
Adriana
,
who
became
somewhat
uneasy
;
but
the
whispers
mainly
consisted
of
his
delight
in
their
morning
adventures
.
When
he
remarked
that
it
was
one
of
the
most
agreeable
days
of
his
life
,
she
became
a
little
alarmed
.
Then
he
addressed
Colonel
Albert
across
the
table
,
and
said
that
he
had
heard
from
Mr.
Neuchatel
that
the
colonel
had
been
in
America
,
and
asked
some
questions
about
public
men
,
which
brought
him
out
.
Colonel
Albert
answered
with
gentleness
and
modesty
,
never
at
any
length
,
but
in
language
which
indicated
,
on
all
the
matters
referred
to
,
thought
and
discrimination
.
“
I
suppose
their
society
is
like
the
best
society
in
Manchester
?
”
said
Lord
Roehampton
.
“
It
varies
in
different
cities
,
”
said
Colonel
Albert
.
“
In
some
there
is
considerable
culture
,
and
then
refinement
of
life
always
follows
.
”
“
Yes
,
but
whatever
they
may
be
,
they
will
always
be
colonial
.
What
is
colonial
necessarily
lacks
originality
.
A
country
that
borrows
its
language
,
its
laws
,
and
its
religion
,
cannot
have
its
inventive
powers
much
developed
.
They
got
civilised
very
soon
,
but
their
civilisation
was
second-hand
.
”
“
Perhaps
their
inventive
powers
may
develop
themselves
in
other
ways
,
”
said
the
prince
.
“
A
nation
has
a
fixed
quantity
of
invention
,
and
it
will
make
itself
felt
.
”
“
At
present
,
”
said
Lord
Roehampton
,
“
the
Americans
,
I
think
,
employ
their
invention
in
imaginary
boundary
lines
.
They
are
giving
us
plenty
of
trouble
now
about
Maine
.
”
After
dinner
they
had
some
music
;
Lord
Roehampton
would
not
play
whist
.
He
insisted
on
comparing
the
voices
of
his
companions
with
that
of
the
nightingales
of
the
morning
.
He
talked
a
great
deal
to
Adriana
,
and
Colonel
Albert
,
in
the
course
of
the
evening
much
to
Myra
,
and
about
her
brother
.
Lord
Roehampton
more
than
once
had
wished
to
tell
her
,
as
he
had
already
told
Miss
Neuchatel
,
how
delightful
had
been
their
morning
;
but
on
every
occasion
he
had
found
her
engaged
with
the
colonel
.
“
I
rather
like
your
prince
,
”
he
had
observed
to
Mr.
Neuchatel
,
as
they
came
from
the
dining-room
.
“
He
never
speaks
without
thinking
;
very
reserved
,
I
apprehend
.
They
say
,
an
inveterate
conspirator
.
”
“
He
has
had
enough
of
that
,
”
said
Mr.
Neuchatel
.
“
I
believe
he
wants
to
be
quiet
.
”
“
That
class
of
man
is
never
quiet
,
”
said
Lord
Roehampton
.
“
But
what
can
he
do
?
”
said
Mr.
Neuchatel
.
“
What
can
he
not
do
?
Half
Europe
is
in
a
state
of
chronic
conspiracy
.
”
“
You
must
keep
us
right
,
my
dear
lord
.
So
long
as
you
are
in
Downing
Street
I
shall
sleep
at
nights
.
”
“
Miss
Ferrars
,
”
said
Lord
Roehampton
abruptly
to
Mr.
Neuchatel
,
“
must
have
been
the
daughter
of
William
Ferrars
,
one
of
my
great
friends
in
old
days
.
I
never
knew
it
till
to-day
,
and
she
did
not
tell
me
,
but
it
flashed
across
me
from
something
she
said
.
”
“
Yes
,
she
is
his
daughter
,
and
is
in
mourning
for
him
at
this
moment
.
She
has
had
sorrows
,
”
said
Mr.
Neuchatel
.
“
I
hope
they
have
ceased
.
It
was
one
of
the
happiest
days
of
my
life
when
she
entered
this
family
.
”
“
Ah
!
”
said
Lord
Roehampton
.
The
next
day
,
after
they
had
examined
the
famous
stud
and
stables
,
there
was
a
riding
party
,
and
in
the
evening
Colonel
Albert
offered
to
perform
some
American
conjuring
tricks
,
of
which
he
had
been
speaking
in
the
course
of
the
day
.
This
was
a
most
wonderful
performance
,
and
surprised
and
highly
amused
everybody
.
Colonel
Albert
was
the
last
person
who
they
expected
would
achieve
such
marvels
;
he
was
so
quiet
,
not
to
say
grave
.
They
could
hardly
credit
that
he
was
the
same
person
as
he
poured
floods
of
flowers
over
Myra
from
her
own
borrowed
pocket-handkerchief
,
and
without
the
slightest
effort
or
embarrassment
,
robbed
Lord
Roehampton
of
his
watch
,
and
deposited
it
in
Adriana’s
bosom
.
It
was
evident
that
he
was
a
complete
master
of
slight-of-hand
.
“
Characteristic
!
”
murmured
Lord
Roehampton
to
himself
.
It
was
the
day
after
this
,
that
Myra
being
in
the
music
room
and
alone
,
Lord
Roehampton
opened
the
door
,
looked
in
,
and
then
said
,
“
Where
is
Miss
Neuchatel
?
”
“
I
think
she
is
on
the
terrace
.
”
“
Let
us
try
to
find
her
,
and
have
one
of
our
pleasant
strolls
.
I
sadly
want
one
,
for
I
have
been
working
very
hard
all
this
morning
,
and
half
the
night
.
”
“
I
will
be
with
you
,
Lord
Roehampton
,
in
a
moment
.
”
“
Do
not
let
us
have
anybody
else
,
”
he
said
,
as
she
left
the
room
.
They
were
soon
on
the
terrace
,
but
Adriana
was
not
there
.
“
We
must
find
her
,
”
said
Lord
Roehampton
;
“
you
know
her
haunts
.
Ah
!
what
a
delight
it
is
to
be
in
this
air
and
this
scene
after
those
dreadful
boxes
!
I
wish
they
would
turn
us
out
.
I
think
they
must
soon
.
”
“
Now
for
the
first
time
,
”
said
Myra
,
“
Lord
Roehampton
is
not
sincere
.
”
“
Then
you
think
me
always
sincere
?
”
he
replied
.
“
I
have
no
reason
to
think
you
otherwise
.
”
“
That
is
very
true
,
”
said
Lord
Roehampton
,
“
truer
perhaps
than
you
imagine
.
”
Then
rather
abruptly
he
said
,
“
You
know
Colonel
Albert
very
well
?
”
“
Pretty
well
.
I
have
seen
him
here
frequently
,
and
he
is
also
a
friend
of
my
brother
.
”
“
Ah
!
a
friend
of
your
brother
.
”
Then
,
after
a
slight
pause
,
he
said
,
“
He
is
an
interesting
man
.
”
“
I
think
so
,
”
said
Myra
.
“
You
know
all
about
him
,
of
course
.
”
“
Very
good-looking
.
”
“
Well
,
he
looks
unhappy
,
I
think
,
and
worn
.
”
“
One
is
never
worn
when
one
is
young
,
”
said
Lord
Roehampton
.
“
He
must
have
great
anxieties
and
great
sorrows
,
”
said
Myra
.
“
I
cannot
imagine
a
position
more
unfortunate
than
that
of
an
exiled
prince
.
”
“
I
can
,
”
said
Lord
Roehampton
.
“
To
have
the
feelings
of
youth
and
the
frame
of
age
.
”
Myra
was
silent
,
one
might
say
dumbfounded
.
She
had
just
screwed
herself
up
to
the
task
which
Mr.
Neuchatel
had
imposed
on
her
,
and
was
about
to
appeal
to
the
good
offices
of
Lord
Roehampton
in
favour
of
the
prince
,
when
he
had
indulged
in
a
remark
which
was
not
only
somewhat
strange
,
but
from
the
manner
in
which
it
was
introduced
hardly
harmonised
with
her
purpose
.
“
Yes
,
I
would
give
up
everything
,
”
said
Lord
Roehampton
.
“
I
would
even
be
an
exile
to
be
young
;
to
hear
that
Miss
Ferrars
deems
me
interesting
and
good-looking
,
though
worn
.
”
“
What
is
going
to
happen
?
”
thought
Myra
.
“
Will
the
earth
open
to
receive
me
?
”
“
You
are
silent
,
”
said
Lord
Roehampton
.
“
You
will
not
speak
,
you
will
not
sigh
,
you
will
not
give
a
glance
of
consolation
or
even
pity
.
But
I
have
spoken
too
much
not
to
say
more
.
Beautiful
,
fascinating
being
,
let
me
at
least
tell
you
of
my
love
.
”
Myra
could
not
speak
,
but
put
her
left
hand
to
her
face
.
Gently
taking
her
other
hand
,
Lord
Roehampton
pressed
it
to
his
lips
.
“
From
the
first
moment
I
met
you
,
my
heart
was
yours
.
It
was
love
at
first
sight
;
indeed
I
believe
in
no
other
.
I
was
amused
with
the
projects
of
my
friend
,
and
I
availed
myself
of
them
,
but
not
unfairly
.
No
one
can
accuse
me
of
trifling
with
the
affections
of
your
sweet
companion
,
and
I
must
do
her
the
justice
to
say
that
she
did
everything
to
convince
me
that
she
shrank
from
my
attentions
.
But
her
society
was
an
excuse
to
enjoy
yours
.
I
was
an
habitual
visitor
in
town
that
I
might
cherish
my
love
,
and
,
dare
I
say
it
,
I
came
down
here
to
declare
it
.
Do
not
despise
it
,
dearest
of
women
;
it
is
not
worthy
of
you
,
but
it
is
not
altogether
undeserving
.
It
is
,
as
you
kindly
believed
it
,
—
it
is
sincere
!
”
CHAPTER
XLV
On
the
following
day
,
Mr.
Neuchatel
had
good-naturedly
invited
Endymion
down
to
Hainault
,
and
when
he
arrived
there
,
a
servant
informed
him
that
Miss
Ferrars
wished
to
see
him
in
her
room
.
It
was
a
long
interview
and
an
agitated
one
,
and
when
she
had
told
her
tale
,
and
her
brother
had
embraced
her
,
she
sat
for
a
time
in
silence
,
holding
his
hand
,
and
intimating
,
that
,
for
a
while
,
she
wished
that
neither
of
them
should
speak
.
Suddenly
,
she
resumed
,
and
said
,
“
Now
you
know
all
,
dear
darling
;
it
is
so
sudden
,
and
so
strange
,
that
you
must
be
almost
as
much
astounded
as
gratified
.
What
I
have
sighed
for
,
and
prayed
for
—
what
,
in
moments
of
inspiration
,
I
have
sometimes
foreseen
—
has
happened
.
Our
degradation
is
over
.
I
seem
to
breathe
for
the
first
time
for
many
years
.
I
see
a
career
,
ay
,
and
a
great
one
;
and
what
is
far
more
important
,
I
see
a
career
for
you
.
”
“
At
this
moment
,
dear
Myra
,
think
only
of
yourself
.
”
“
You
are
myself
,
”
she
replied
,
rather
quickly
,
“
never
more
so
than
at
this
moment
;
”
and
then
she
said
in
a
tone
more
subdued
,
and
even
tender
,
“
Lord
Roehampton
has
every
quality
and
every
accident
of
life
that
I
delight
in
;
he
has
intellect
,
eloquence
,
courage
,
great
station
and
power
;
and
,
what
I
ought
perhaps
more
to
consider
,
though
I
do
not
,
a
sweet
disposition
and
a
tender
heart
.
There
is
every
reason
why
we
should
be
happy
—
yes
,
very
happy
.
I
am
sure
I
shall
sympathise
with
him
;
perhaps
,
I
may
aid
him
;
at
least
,
he
thinks
so
.
He
is
the
noblest
of
men
.
The
world
will
talk
of
the
disparity
of
our
years
;
but
Lord
Roehampton
says
that
he
is
really
the
younger
of
the
two
,
and
I
think
he
is
right
.
My
pride
,
my
intense
pride
,
never
permitted
to
me
any
levity
of
heart
.
”
“
And
when
is
it
to
happen
?
”
inquired
Endymion
.
“
Not
immediately
.
I
could
not
marry
till
a
year
had
elapsed
after
our
great
sorrow
;
and
it
is
more
agreeable
,
even
to
him
,
that
our
union
should
be
delayed
till
the
session
is
over
.
He
wants
to
leave
England
;
go
abroad
;
have
a
real
holiday
.
He
has
always
had
a
dream
of
travelling
in
Spain
;
well
,
we
are
to
realise
the
dream
.
If
we
could
get
off
at
the
end
of
July
,
we
might
go
to
Paris
,
and
then
to
Madrid
,
and
travel
in
Andalusia
in
the
autumn
,
and
then
catch
the
packet
at
Gibraltar
,
and
get
home
just
in
time
for
the
November
cabinets
.
”
“
Dear
Myra
!
how
wonderful
it
all
seems
!
”
involuntarily
exclaimed
Endymion
.
“
Yes
,
but
more
wonderful
things
will
happen
.
We
have
now
got
a
lever
to
move
the
world
.
Understand
,
my
dear
Endymion
,
that
nothing
is
to
be
announced
at
present
.
It
will
be
known
only
to
this
family
,
and
the
Penruddocks
.
I
am
bound
to
tell
them
,
even
immediately
;
they
are
friends
that
never
can
be
forgotten
.
I
have
always
kept
up
my
correspondence
with
Mrs.
Penruddock
.
Besides
,
I
shall
tell
her
in
confidence
,
and
she
is
perfectly
to
be
depended
on
.
I
am
going
to
ask
my
lord
to
let
Mr.
Penruddock
marry
us
.
”
“
Oh
!
that
will
be
capital
,
”
said
Endymion
.
“
There
is
another
person
,
by
the
by
,
who
must
know
it
,
at
least
my
lord
says
so
,
”
said
Myra
,
“
and
that
is
Lady
Montfort
;
you
have
heard
of
that
lady
and
her
plans
.
Well
,
she
must
be
told
—
at
least
,
sooner
or
later
.
She
will
be
annoyed
,
and
she
will
hate
me
.
I
cannot
help
it
;
every
one
is
hated
by
somebody
.
”
During
the
three
months
that
had
to
elapse
before
the
happy
day
,
several
incidents
occurred
that
ought
to
be
noted
.
In
the
first
place
,
Lady
Montfort
,
though
disappointed
and
very
much
astonished
,
bore
the
communication
from
Lord
Roehampton
more
kindly
than
he
had
anticipated
.
Lord
Roehampton
made
it
by
letter
,
and
his
letters
to
women
were
more
happy
even
than
his
despatches
to
ministers
,
and
they
were
unrivalled
.
He
put
the
matter
in
the
most
skilful
form
.
Myra
had
been
born
in
a
social
position
not
inferior
to
his
own
,
and
was
the
daughter
of
one
of
his
earliest
political
friends
.
He
did
not
dilate
too
much
on
her
charms
and
captivating
qualities
,
but
sufficiently
for
the
dignity
of
her
who
was
to
become
his
wife
.
And
then
he
confessed
to
Lady
Montfort
how
completely
his
heart
and
happiness
were
set
on
Lady
Roehampton
being
welcomed
becomingly
by
his
friends
;
he
was
well
aware
,
that
in
these
matters
things
did
not
always
proceed
as
one
could
wish
,
but
this
was
the
moment
,
and
this
the
occasion
,
to
test
a
friend
,
and
he
believed
he
had
the
dearest
,
the
most
faithful
,
the
most
fascinating
,
and
the
most
powerful
in
Lady
Montfort
.
“
Well
,
we
must
put
the
best
face
upon
it
,
”
exclaimed
that
lady
;
“
he
was
always
romantic
.
But
,
as
he
says
,
or
thinks
,
what
is
the
use
of
friends
if
they
do
not
help
you
in
a
scrape
?
”
So
Lady
Montfort
made
the
acquaintance
of
Myra
,
and
welcomed
her
new
acquaintance
cordially
.
She
was
too
fine
a
judge
of
beauty
and
deportment
not
to
appreciate
them
,
even
when
a
little
prejudice
lurked
behind
.
She
was
amused
also
,
and
a
little
gratified
,
by
being
in
the
secret
;
presented
Myra
with
a
rare
jewel
,
and
declared
that
she
should
attend
the
wedding
;
though
when
the
day
arrived
,
she
was
at
Princedown
,
and
could
not
,
unfortunately
,
leave
her
lord
.
About
the
end
of
June
,
a
rather
remarkable
paragraph
appeared
in
the
journal
of
society
:
“
We
understand
that
His
Royal
Highness
Prince
Florestan
,
who
has
been
for
some
little
time
in
this
country
,
has
taken
the
mansion
in
Carlton
Gardens
,
recently
occupied
by
the
Marquis
of
Katterfelto
.
The
mansion
is
undergoing
very
considerable
repairs
,
but
it
is
calculated
that
it
will
be
completed
in
time
for
the
reception
of
His
Royal
Highness
by
the
end
of
the
autumn
;
His
Royal
Highness
has
taken
the
extensive
moors
of
Dinniewhiskie
for
the
coming
season
.
”
In
the
earlier
part
of
July
,
the
approaching
alliance
of
the
Earl
of
Roehampton
with
Miss
Ferrars
,
the
only
daughter
of
the
late
Right
Honourable
William
Pitt
Ferrars
,
of
Hurstley
Hall
,
in
the
county
of
Berks
,
was
announced
,
and
great
was
the
sensation
,
and
innumerable
the
presents
instantly
ordered
.
But
on
no
one
did
the
announcement
produce
a
greater
effect
than
on
Zenobia
;
that
the
daughter
of
her
dearest
friend
should
make
so
interesting
and
so
distinguished
an
alliance
was
naturally
most
gratifying
to
her
.
She
wrote
to
Myra
a
most
impassioned
letter
,
as
if
they
had
only
separated
yesterday
,
and
a
still
longer
and
more
fervent
one
to
Lord
Roehampton
;
Zenobia
and
he
had
been
close
friends
in
other
days
,
till
he
wickedly
changed
his
politics
,
and
was
always
in
office
and
Zenobia
always
out
.
This
was
never
to
be
forgiven
.
But
the
bright
lady
forgot
all
this
now
,
and
sent
to
Myra
the
most
wondrous
bracelet
of
precious
stones
,
in
which
the
word
“
Souvenir
”
was
represented
in
brilliants
,
rubies
,
and
emeralds
.
“
For
my
part
,
”
said
Myra
to
Endymion
,
“
my
most
difficult
task
are
the
bridesmaids
.
I
am
to
have
so
many
,
and
know
so
few
.
I
feel
like
a
recruiting
sergeant
.
I
began
to
Adriana
,
but
my
lord
helps
me
very
much
out
of
his
family
,
and
says
,
when
we
have
had
a
few
family
dinners
,
all
will
be
right
.
”
Endymion
did
not
receive
the
banter
he
expected
at
the
office
.
The
event
was
too
great
for
a
jest
.
Seymour
Hicks
,
with
a
serious
countenance
,
said
Ferrars
might
get
anywhere
now
,
—
all
the
ministerial
receptions
of
course
.
Jawett
said
there
would
be
no
ministerial
receptions
soon
;
they
were
degrading
functions
.
Clear-headed
Trenchard
congratulated
him
quietly
,
and
said
,
“
I
do
not
think
you
will
stay
much
longer
among
us
,
but
we
shall
always
remember
you
with
interest
.
”
At
last
the
great
day
arrived
,
and
at
St.
George’s
,
Hanover
Square
,
the
Right
Honourable
the
Earl
of
Roehampton
,
K.G.
,
was
united
to
Miss
Ferrars
.
Mr.
Penruddock
joined
their
hands
.
His
son
Nigel
had
been
invited
to
assist
him
,
but
did
not
appear
,
though
Myra
had
written
to
him
.
The
great
world
assembled
in
force
,
and
Endymion
observed
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Rodney
and
Imogene
in
the
body
of
the
church
.
After
the
ceremony
there
was
an
entertainment
in
Portland
Place
,
and
the
world
ate
ortolans
and
examined
the
presents
.
These
were
remarkable
for
number
and
splendour
.
Myra
could
not
conceal
her
astonishment
at
possessing
so
many
friends
;
but
it
was
the
fashion
for
all
Lord
Roehampton’s
acquaintance
to
make
him
offerings
,
and
to
solicit
his
permission
to
present
gifts
to
his
bride
.
Mr.
Neuchatel
placed
on
her
brow
a
diamond
tiara
,
and
Mrs.
Neuchatel
encircled
her
neck
with
one
of
her
diamond
necklaces
.
“
I
should
like
to
give
the
other
one
to
Adriana
,
”
she
observed
,
“
but
Adriana
says
that
nothing
will
ever
induce
her
to
wear
jewels
.
”
Prince
Florestan
presented
Lady
Roehampton
with
a
vase
which
had
belonged
to
his
mother
,
and
which
had
been
painted
by
Boucher
for
Marie
Antoinette
.
It
was
matchless
,
and
almost
unique
.
Not
long
after
this
,
Lord
Beaumaris
,
with
many
servants
and
many
guns
,
took
Waldershare
and
Endymion
down
with
him
to
Scotland
.
CHAPTER
XLVI
The
end
of
the
season
is
a
pang
to
society
.
More
hopes
have
been
baffled
than
realised
.
There
is
something
melancholy
in
the
last
ball
,
though
the
music
ever
seems
louder
,
and
the
lights
more
glaring
than
usual
.
Or
it
may
be
,
the
last
entertainment
is
that
hecatomb
they
call
a
wedding
breakfast
,
which
celebrates
the
triumph
of
a
rival
.
That
is
pleasant
.
Society
,
to
do
it
justice
,
struggles
hard
to
revive
in
other
scenes
the
excitement
that
has
expired
.
It
sails
to
Cowes
,
it
scuds
to
bubbling
waters
in
the
pine
forests
of
the
continent
,
it
stalks
even
into
Scotland
;
but
it
is
difficult
to
restore
the
romance
that
has
been
rudely
disturbed
,
and
to
gather
again
together
the
threads
of
the
intrigue
that
have
been
lost
in
the
wild
flight
of
society
from
that
metropolis
,
which
is
now
described
as
“
a
perfect
desert
”
—
that
is
to
say
,
a
park
or
so
,
two
or
three
squares
,
and
a
dozen
streets
where
society
lives
;
where
it
dines
,
and
dances
,
and
blackballs
,
and
bets
,
and
spouts
.
But
to
the
world
in
general
,
the
mighty
million
,
to
the
professional
classes
,
to
all
men
of
business
whatever
,
the
end
of
the
season
is
the
beginning
of
carnival
.
It
is
the
fulfilment
of
the
dream
over
which
they
have
been
brooding
for
ten
months
,
which
has
sustained
them
in
toil
,
lightened
anxiety
,
and
softened
even
loss
.
It
is
air
,
it
is
health
,
it
is
movement
,
it
is
liberty
,
it
is
nature
—
earth
,
sea
,
lake
,
moor
,
forest
,
mountain
,
and
river
.
From
the
heights
of
the
Engadine
to
Margate
Pier
,
there
is
equal
rapture
,
for
there
is
an
equal
cessation
of
routine
.
Few
enjoy
a
holiday
more
than
a
young
clerk
in
a
public
office
,
who
has
been
bred
in
a
gentle
home
,
and
enjoyed
in
his
boyhood
all
the
pastimes
of
gentlemen
.
Now
he
is
ever
toiling
,
with
an
uncertain
prospect
of
annual
relaxation
,
and
living
hardly
.
Once
on
a
time
,
at
the
paternal
hall
,
he
could
shoot
,
or
fish
,
or
ride
,
every
day
of
his
life
,
as
a
matter
of
course
;
and
now
,
what
would
he
not
give
for
a
good
day’s
sport
?
Such
thoughts
had
frequently
crossed
the
mind
of
Endymion
when
drudging
in
London
during
the
autumn
,
and
when
all
his
few
acquaintances
were
away
.
It
was
,
therefore
,
with
no
ordinary
zest
that
he
looked
forward
to
the
unexpected
enjoyment
of
an
unstinted
share
of
some
of
the
best
shooting
in
the
United
Kingdom
.
And
the
relaxation
and
the
pastime
came
just
at
the
right
moment
,
when
the
reaction
,
from
all
the
excitement
attendant
on
the
marvellous
change
in
his
sister’s
position
,
would
have
made
him
,
deprived
of
her
consoling
society
,
doubly
sensible
of
his
isolated
position
.
It
so
happened
that
the
moors
of
Lord
Beaumaris
were
contiguous
to
the
celebrated
shootings
of
Dinniewhiskie
,
which
were
rented
by
Prince
Florestan
,
and
the
opportunity
now
offered
which
Waldershare
desired
of
making
the
acquaintance
of
the
prince
in
an
easy
manner
.
Endymion
managed
this
cleverly
.
Waldershare
took
a
great
fancy
to
the
prince
.
He
sympathised
with
him
,
and
imparted
to
Endymion
his
belief
that
they
could
not
do
a
better
thing
than
devote
their
energies
to
a
restoration
of
his
rights
.
Lord
Beaumaris
,
who
hated
foreigners
,
but
who
was
always
influenced
by
Waldershare
,
also
liked
the
prince
,
and
was
glad
to
be
reminded
by
his
mentor
that
Florestan
was
half
an
Englishman
,
not
to
say
a
whole
one
,
for
he
was
an
Eton
boy
.
What
was
equally
influential
with
Lord
Beaumaris
was
,
that
the
prince
was
a
fine
shot
,
and
indeed
a
consummate
sportsman
,
and
had
in
his
manners
that
calm
which
is
rather
unusual
with
foreigners
,
and
which
is
always
pleasing
to
an
English
aristocrat
.
So
in
time
they
became
intimate
,
sported
much
together
,
and
visited
each
other
at
their
respective
quarters
.
The
prince
was
never
alone
.
What
the
county
paper
described
as
distinguished
foreigners
were
perpetually
paying
him
visits
,
long
or
short
,
and
it
did
not
generally
appear
that
these
visits
were
influenced
by
a
love
of
sport
.
One
individual
,
who
arrived
shortly
after
the
prince
,
remained
,
and
,
as
was
soon
known
,
was
to
remain
permanently
.
This
was
a
young
gentleman
,
short
and
swarthy
,
with
flashing
eyes
and
a
black
moustache
,
known
by
the
name
of
the
Duke
of
St.
Angelo
,
but
who
was
really
only
a
cadet
of
that
illustrious
house
.
The
Duke
of
St.
Angelo
took
the
management
of
the
household
of
the
prince
—
was
evidently
the
controller
;
servants
trembled
at
his
nod
,
and
he
rode
any
horse
he
liked
;
he
invited
guests
,
and
arranged
the
etiquette
of
the
interior
.
He
said
one
day
very
coolly
to
Waldershare
:
“
I
observe
that
Lord
Beaumaris
and
his
friends
never
rise
when
the
prince
moves
.
”
“
Why
should
we
?
”
“
His
rank
is
recognised
and
guaranteed
by
the
Treaty
of
Vienna
,
”
said
the
Duke
of
St.
Angelo
,
with
an
arrogant
air
.
“
His
princely
rank
,
”
replied
Waldershare
,
“
but
not
his
royalty
.
”
“
That
is
a
mere
refinement
,
”
said
the
duke
contemptuously
.
“
On
the
contrary
,
a
clear
distinction
,
and
specifically
made
in
the
treaty
.
I
do
not
think
the
prince
himself
would
desire
such
a
ceremony
,
and
let
me
recommend
you
,
duke
,
”
added
Waldershare
,
“
not
to
go
out
of
your
way
to
insist
on
these
points
.
They
will
not
increase
the
prince’s
popularity
.
”
“
The
time
will
come
,
and
before
long
,
when
the
Treaty
of
Vienna
,
with
its
clear
distinctions
,
will
be
at
the
bottom
of
the
Red
Sea
,
”
said
the
Duke
of
St.
Angelo
,
“
and
then
no
one
will
sit
when
His
Majesty
rises
.
”
“
Amen
!
”
said
Waldershare
.
“
All
diplomacy
since
the
Treaty
of
Utrecht
seems
to
me
to
be
fiddle-faddle
,
and
the
country
rewarded
the
great
man
who
made
that
treaty
by
an
attainder
.
”
Endymion
returned
to
town
towards
the
end
of
September
,
Waldershare
went
to
Paris
,
and
Lord
Beaumaris
and
the
prince
,
who
had
become
intimate
,
repaired
together
to
Conington
,
the
seat
of
Lord
Beaumaris
,
to
kill
pheasants
.
Even
the
Rodneys
,
who
had
gone
to
the
Rhine
this
year
,
had
not
returned
.
Endymion
had
only
the
society
of
his
fellow
clerks
.
He
liked
Trenchard
,
who
was
acute
,
full
of
official
information
,
and
of
gentle
breeding
.
Still
it
must
be
confessed
that
Endymion
felt
the
change
in
his
society
.
Seymour
Hicks
was
hardly
a
fit
successor
to
Waldershare
,
and
Jawett’s
rabid
abstractions
on
government
were
certainly
not
so
interesting
as
la
haute
politique
of
the
Duke
of
St.
Angelo
.
Were
it
not
for
the
letters
which
he
constantly
received
from
his
sister
,
he
would
have
felt
a
little
despondent
.
As
it
was
,
he
renewed
his
studies
in
his
pleasant
garret
,
trained
himself
in
French
and
German
,
and
got
up
several
questions
for
the
Union
.
The
month
seemed
very
long
,
but
it
was
not
unprofitably
spent
.
The
Rodneys
were
still
absent
.
They
had
not
returned
as
they
had
intended
direct
to
England
,
but
had
gone
to
Paris
to
meet
Mr.
Waldershare
.
At
the
end
of
October
there
was
a
semi-official
paragraph
announcing
the
approaching
meeting
of
the
Cabinet
,
and
the
movements
of
its
members
.
Some
were
in
the
north
,
and
some
were
in
the
south
;
some
were
killing
the
last
grouse
,
and
some
,
placed
in
green
ridings
,
were
blazing
in
battues
.
But
all
were
to
be
at
their
post
in
ten
days
,
and
there
was
a
special
notification
that
intelligence
had
been
received
of
the
arrival
of
Lord
and
Lady
Roehampton
at
Gibraltar
.
CHAPTER
XLVII
Lady
Roehampton
,
in
her
stately
mansion
in
St.
James’
Square
,
found
life
very
different
from
what
she
had
experienced
in
her
Andalusian
dream
.
For
three
months
she
had
been
the
constant
companion
of
one
of
the
most
fascinating
of
men
,
whose
only
object
had
been
to
charm
and
delight
her
.
And
in
this
he
had
entirely
succeeded
.
From
the
moment
they
arrived
in
London
,
however
,
they
seemed
to
be
separated
,
and
although
when
they
met
,
there
was
ever
a
sweet
smile
and
a
kind
and
playful
word
for
her
,
his
brow
,
if
not
oppressed
with
care
,
was
always
weighty
with
thought
.
Lord
Roehampton
was
little
at
his
office
;
he
worked
in
a
spacious
chamber
on
the
ground
floor
of
his
private
residence
,
and
which
was
called
the
Library
,
though
its
literature
consisted
only
of
Hansard
,
volumes
of
state
papers
,
shelves
of
treatises
,
and
interminable
folios
of
parliamentary
reports
.
He
had
not
been
at
home
a
week
before
the
floor
of
the
apartment
was
literally
covered
with
red
boxes
,
all
containing
documents
requiring
attention
,
and
which
messengers
were
perpetually
bringing
or
carrying
away
.
Then
there
were
long
meetings
of
the
Cabinet
almost
daily
,
and
daily
visits
from
ambassadors
and
foreign
ministers
,
which
prevented
the
transaction
of
the
current
business
,
and
rendered
it
necessary
that
Lord
Roehampton
should
sit
up
late
in
his
cabinet
,
and
work
sometimes
nearly
till
the
hours
of
dawn
.
There
had
been
of
course
too
some
arrears
of
business
,
for
secretaries
of
state
cannot
indulge
with
impunity
in
Andalusian
dreams
,
but
Lord
Roehampton
was
well
served
.
His
under-secretaries
of
state
were
capable
and
experienced
men
,
and
their
chief
had
not
been
altogether
idle
in
his
wanderings
.
He
had
visited
Paris
,
and
the
capital
of
France
in
those
days
was
the
capital
of
diplomacy
.
The
visit
of
Lord
Roehampton
had
settled
some
questions
which
might
have
lingered
for
years
,
and
had
given
him
that
opportunity
of
personal
survey
which
to
a
statesman
is
invaluable
.
Although
it
was
not
the
season
,
the
great
desert
had
,
comparatively
speaking
,
again
become
peopled
.
There
were
many
persons
in
town
,
and
they
all
called
immediately
on
Lady
Roehampton
.
The
ministerial
families
and
the
diplomatic
corps
alone
form
a
circle
,
but
there
is
also
a
certain
number
of
charming
people
who
love
London
in
November
,
and
lead
there
a
wondrous
pleasant
life
of
real
amusement
,
until
their
feudal
traditions
and
their
domestic
duties
summon
them
back
to
their
Christmas
homes
.
Lord
and
Lady
Roehampton
gave
constant
dinners
,
and
after
they
had
tried
two
or
three
,
he
expressed
his
wish
to
his
wife
that
she
should
hold
a
small
reception
after
these
dinners
.
He
was
a
man
of
great
tact
,
and
he
wished
to
launch
his
wife
quietly
and
safely
on
the
social
ocean
.
“
There
is
nothing
like
practising
before
Christmas
,
my
love
,
”
he
would
say
;
“
you
will
get
your
hand
in
,
and
be
able
to
hold
regular
receptions
in
the
spring
.
”
And
he
was
quite
right
.
The
dinners
became
the
mode
,
and
the
assemblies
were
eagerly
appreciated
.
The
Secretary
of
the
Treasury
whispered
to
an
Under-Secretary
of
State
,
—
“
This
marriage
was
a
coup
.
We
have
got
another
house
.
”
Myra
had
been
a
little
anxious
about
the
relations
between
Lord
Roehampton
and
her
brother
.
She
felt
,
with
a
woman’s
instinct
,
that
her
husband
might
not
be
overpleased
by
her
devotion
to
Endymion
,
and
she
could
not
resist
the
conviction
that
the
disparity
of
age
which
is
easily
forgotten
in
a
wife
,
and
especially
in
a
wife
who
adores
you
,
assumes
a
different
,
and
somewhat
distasteful
character
,
when
a
great
statesman
is
obliged
to
recognise
it
in
the
shape
of
a
boyish
brother-in-law
.
But
all
went
right
,
for
the
sweetness
of
Lord
Roehampton’s
temper
was
inexhaustible
.
Endymion
had
paid
several
visits
to
St.
James’
square
before
Myra
could
seize
the
opportunity
,
for
which
she
was
ever
watching
,
to
make
her
husband
and
her
brother
acquainted
.
“
And
so
you
are
one
of
us
,
”
said
Lord
Roehampton
,
with
his
sweetest
smile
and
in
his
most
musical
tone
,
“
and
in
office
.
We
must
try
to
give
you
a
lift
.
”
And
then
he
asked
Endymion
who
was
his
chief
,
and
how
he
liked
him
,
and
then
he
said
,
“
A
good
deal
depends
on
a
man’s
chief
.
I
was
under
your
grandfather
when
I
first
entered
parliament
,
and
I
never
knew
a
pleasanter
man
to
do
business
with
.
He
never
made
difficulties
;
he
always
encouraged
one
.
A
younker
likes
that
.
”
Lady
Roehampton
was
desirous
of
paying
some
attention
to
all
those
who
had
been
kind
to
her
brother
;
particularly
Mr.
Waldershare
and
Lord
Beaumaris
—
and
she
wished
to
invite
them
to
her
house
.
“
I
am
sure
Waldershare
would
like
to
come
,
”
said
Endymion
,
“
but
Lord
Beaumaris
,
I
know
,
never
goes
anywhere
,
and
I
have
myself
heard
him
say
he
never
would
.
”
“
Yes
,
my
lord
was
telling
me
Lord
Beaumaris
was
quite
farouche
,
and
it
is
feared
that
we
may
lose
him
.
That
would
be
sad
,
”
said
Myra
,
“
for
he
is
powerful
.
”
“
I
should
like
very
much
if
you
could
give
me
a
card
for
Mr.
Trenchard
,
”
said
Endymion
;
“
he
is
not
in
society
,
but
he
is
quite
a
gentleman
.
”
“
You
shall
have
it
,
my
dear
.
I
have
always
liked
Mr.
Trenchard
,
and
I
dare
say
,
some
day
or
other
,
he
may
be
of
use
to
you
.
”
The
Neuchatels
were
not
in
town
,
but
Myra
saw
them
frequently
,
and
Mr.
Neuchatel
often
dined
in
St.
James’
Square
—
but
the
ladies
always
declined
every
invitation
of
the
kind
.
They
came
up
from
Hainault
to
see
Myra
,
but
looked
as
if
nothing
but
their
great
affection
would
prompt
such
a
sacrifice
,
and
seemed
always
pining
for
Arcadia
.
Endymion
,
however
,
not
unfrequently
continued
his
Sunday
visits
to
Hainault
,
to
which
Mr.
Neuchatel
had
given
him
a
general
welcome
.
This
young
gentleman
,
indeed
,
soon
experienced
a
considerable
change
in
his
social
position
.
Invitations
flocked
to
him
,
and
often
from
persons
whom
he
did
not
know
,
and
who
did
not
even
know
him
.
He
went
by
the
name
of
Lady
Roehampton’s
brother
,
and
that
was
a
sufficient
passport
.
“
We
are
trying
to
get
up
a
carpet
dance
to-night
,
”
said
Belinda
to
a
fair
friend
.
“
What
men
are
in
town
?
”
“
Well
,
there
is
Mr.
Waldershare
,
who
has
just
left
me
.
”
“
I
have
asked
him
.
“
Then
there
is
Lord
Willesden
and
Henry
Grantley
—
I
know
they
are
passing
through
town
—
and
there
is
the
new
man
,
Lady
Roehampton’s
brother
.
”
“
I
will
send
to
Lord
Willesden
and
Henry
Grantley
immediately
,
and
perhaps
you
will
send
a
card
,
which
I
will
write
here
,
for
me
to
the
new
man
.
”
And
in
this
way
Mr.
Ferrars
soon
found
that
he
was
what
is
called
“
everywhere
.
”
One
of
the
most
interesting
acquaintances
that
Lady
Roehampton
made
was
a
colleague
of
her
husband
,
and
that
was
Mr.
Sidney
Wilton
,
once
the
intimate
friend
of
her
father
.
He
had
known
herself
and
her
brother
when
they
were
children
,
indeed
from
the
cradle
.
Mr.
Sidney
Wilton
was
in
the
perfection
of
middle
life
,
and
looked
young
for
his
years
.
He
was
tall
and
pensive
,
and
naturally
sentimental
,
though
a
long
political
career
,
for
he
had
entered
the
House
of
Commons
for
the
family
borough
the
instant
he
was
of
age
,
had
brought
to
this
susceptibility
a
salutary
hardness
.
Although
somewhat
alienated
from
the
friend
of
his
youth
by
the
course
of
affairs
,
for
Mr.
Sidney
Wilton
had
followed
Lord
Roehampton
,
while
Mr.
Ferrars
had
adhered
to
the
Duke
of
Wellington
,
he
had
not
neglected
Ferrars
in
his
fall
,
but
his
offers
of
assistance
,
frankly
and
generously
made
,
had
been
coldly
though
courteously
rejected
,
and
no
encouragement
had
been
given
to
the
maintenance
of
their
once
intimate
acquaintance
.
Mr.
Sidney
Wilton
was
much
struck
by
the
appearance
of
Lady
Roehampton
.
He
tried
to
compare
the
fulfilment
of
her
promise
with
the
beautiful
and
haughty
child
whom
he
used
to
wonder
her
parents
so
extravagantly
spoiled
.
Her
stature
was
above
the
average
height
of
women
and
finely
developed
and
proportioned
.
But
it
was
in
the
countenance
—
in
the
pellucid
and
commanding
brow
,
the
deep
splendour
of
her
dark
blue
eyes
softened
by
long
lashes
,
her
short
upper
lip
,
and
the
rich
profusion
of
her
dark
chestnut
hair
—
that
his
roused
memory
recalled
the
past
;
and
he
fell
into
a
mood
of
agitated
contemplation
.
The
opportunities
which
he
enjoyed
of
cultivating
her
society
were
numerous
,
and
Mr.
Wilton
missed
none
.
He
was
frequently
her
guest
,
and
being
himself
the
master
of
a
splendid
establishment
,
he
could
offer
her
a
hospitality
which
every
one
appreciated
.
Lord
Roehampton
was
peculiarly
his
political
chief
,
and
they
had
always
been
socially
intimate
.
As
the
trusted
colleague
of
her
husband
—
as
one
who
had
known
her
in
her
childhood
,
and
as
himself
a
man
singularly
qualified
,
by
his
agreeable
conversation
and
tender
and
deferential
manner
,
to
make
his
way
with
women
—
Mr.
Sidney
Wilton
had
no
great
difficulty
,
particularly
in
that
happy
demi-season
which
precedes
Christmas
,
in
establishing
relations
of
confidence
and
intimacy
with
Lady
Roehampton
.
The
cabinets
were
over
:
the
government
had
decided
on
their
measures
,
and
put
them
in
a
state
of
preparation
,
and
they
were
about
to
disperse
for
a
month
.
The
seat
of
Lord
Roehampton
was
in
the
extreme
north
of
England
,
and
a
visit
to
it
was
inconvenient
at
this
moment
,
and
especially
at
this
season
.
The
department
of
Lord
Roehampton
was
very
active
at
this
time
,
and
he
was
unwilling
that
the
first
impression
by
his
wife
of
her
future
home
should
be
experienced
at
a
season
little
favourable
to
the
charms
of
a
northern
seat
.
Mr.
Sidney
Wilton
was
the
proprietor
of
the
most
beautiful
and
the
most
celebrated
villa
in
England
;
only
twenty
miles
from
town
,
seated
on
a
wooded
crest
of
the
swan-crowned
Thames
,
with
gardens
of
delight
,
and
woods
full
of
pheasants
,
and
a
terrace
that
would
have
become
a
court
,
glancing
over
a
wide
expanse
of
bower
and
glade
,
studded
with
bright
halls
and
delicate
steeples
,
and
the
smoke
of
rural
homes
.
It
was
arranged
that
Lord
and
Lady
Roehampton
should
pass
their
Christmas
at
Gaydene
with
Mr.
Sidney
Wilton
,
stay
as
long
as
they
liked
,
go
where
they
chose
,
but
make
it
their
headquarters
.
It
was
a
most
successful
visit
;
for
a
great
deal
of
business
was
done
,
as
well
as
pleasure
enjoyed
.
The
ambassadors
,
who
were
always
a
little
uneasy
at
Christmas
when
everybody
is
away
,
and
themselves
without
country
homes
,
were
all
invited
down
for
that
week
.
Lord
Roehampton
used
to
give
them
audiences
after
the
shooting
parties
.
He
thought
it
was
a
specific
against
their
being
too
long
.
He
used
to
say
,
“
The
first
dinner-bell
often
brings
things
to
a
point
.
”
After
Christmas
there
was
an
ever-varying
stream
of
company
,
chiefly
official
and
parliamentary
.
The
banquet
and
the
battue
did
not
always
settle
the
business
,
the
clause
,
or
the
schedule
,
which
the
guests
often
came
down
to
Gaydene
ostensibly
to
accomplish
,
but
they
sent
men
back
to
town
with
increased
energy
and
good
humour
,
and
kept
the
party
in
heart
.
Towards
the
end
of
the
month
the
premier
came
down
,
and
for
him
the
Blue
Ribbon
Covert
had
been
reserved
,
though
he
really
cared
little
for
sport
.
It
was
an
eighteenth
century
tradition
that
knights
of
the
garter
only
had
been
permitted
to
shoot
this
choice
preserve
,
but
Mr.
Sidney
Wilton
,
in
this
advanced
age
,
did
not
of
course
revive
such
an
ultra-exclusive
practice
,
and
he
was
particular
in
arranging
the
party
to
include
Mr.
Jorrocks
.
This
was
a
Radical
member
to
whom
considerable
office
had
been
given
at
the
reconstruction
of
1835
,
when
it
was
necessary
that
the
Whigs
should
conciliate
the
Mountain
.
He
was
a
pretentious
,
underbred
,
half-educated
man
,
fluent
with
all
the
commonplaces
of
middle-class
ambition
,
which
are
humorously
called
democratic
opinions
,
but
at
heart
a
sycophant
of
the
aristocracy
.
He
represented
,
however
,
a
large
and
important
constituency
,
and
his
promotion
was
at
first
looked
upon
as
a
masterpiece
of
management
.
The
Mountain
,
who
knew
Jorrocks
by
heart
,
and
felt
that
they
had
in
their
ranks
men
in
every
sense
his
superior
,
and
that
he
could
be
no
representative
of
their
intelligence
and
opinions
,
and
so
by
degrees
prepare
for
their
gradual
admission
to
the
sacred
land
,
at
first
sulked
over
the
promotion
of
their
late
companion
,
and
only
did
not
publicly
deride
it
from
the
feeling
that
by
so
doing
they
might
be
playing
the
game
of
the
ministry
.
At
the
time
of
which
we
are
writing
,
having
become
extremely
discontented
and
wishing
to
annoy
the
government
,
they
even
affected
dissatisfaction
at
the
subordinate
position
which
Jorrocks
occupied
in
the
administration
,
and
it
was
generally
said
—
had
become
indeed
the
slang
of
the
party
—
that
the
test
of
the
sincerity
of
the
ministry
to
Liberal
principles
was
to
put
Jorrocks
in
the
cabinet
.
The
countenance
of
the
premier
when
this
choice
programme
was
first
communicated
to
him
was
what
might
have
been
expected
had
he
learnt
of
the
sudden
descent
upon
this
isle
of
an
invading
force
,
and
the
Secretary
of
the
Treasury
whispered
in
confidence
to
one
or
two
leaders
of
the
Mountain
,
“
that
if
they
did
not
take
care
they
would
upset
the
government
.
”
“
That
is
exactly
what
we
want
to
do
,
”
was
the
reply
.
So
it
will
be
seen
that
the
position
of
the
ministry
,
previous
to
the
meeting
of
parliament
in
1839
,
was
somewhat
critical
.
In
the
meantime
,
its
various
members
,
who
knew
their
man
,
lavished
every
practicable
social
attention
on
Jorrocks
.
The
dinners
they
gave
him
were
doubled
;
they
got
their
women
to
call
on
his
women
;
and
Sidney
Wilton
,
a
member
of
an
illustrious
garter
family
,
capped
the
climax
by
appointing
him
one
of
the
party
to
shoot
the
Blue
Ribbon
Covert
.
Mr.
Wilton
had
invited
Endymion
to
Gaydene
,
and
,
as
his
stay
there
could
only
be
brief
,
had
even
invited
him
to
repeat
the
visit
.
He
was
,
indeed
,
unaffectedly
kind
to
one
whom
he
remembered
so
young
,
and
was
evidently
pleased
with
him
.
One
evening
,
a
day
or
two
before
the
break-up
of
the
party
,
while
some
charming
Misses
Playfellow
,
with
an
impudent
brother
,
who
all
lived
in
the
neighbourhood
,
were
acting
charades
,
Mr.
Wilton
said
to
Lady
Roehampton
,
by
whose
side
he
was
sitting
in
the
circle
—
“
I
have
had
a
very
busy
morning
about
my
office
.
There
is
to
be
a
complete
revolution
in
it
.
The
whole
system
is
to
be
reconstructed
;
half
the
present
people
are
to
be
pensioned
off
,
and
new
blood
is
to
be
introduced
.
It
struck
me
that
this
might
be
an
opening
for
your
brother
.
He
is
in
the
public
service
—
that
is
something
;
and
as
there
are
to
be
so
many
new
men
,
there
will
be
no
jealousy
as
to
his
promotion
.
If
you
will
speak
to
him
about
it
,
and
he
likes
it
,
I
will
appoint
him
one
of
the
new
clerks
;
and
then
,
if
he
also
likes
it
,
he
shall
be
my
private
secretary
.
That
will
give
him
position
,
and
be
no
mean
addition
to
his
income
,
you
know
,
if
we
last
—
but
that
depends
,
I
suppose
,
on
Mr.
Jorrocks
.
”
Lady
Roehampton
communicated
all
this
to
her
brother
on
her
return
to
London
.
“
It
is
exactly
what
I
wished
,
”
she
said
.
“
I
wanted
you
to
be
private
secretary
to
a
cabinet
minister
,
and
if
I
were
to
choose
any
one
,
except
,
of
course
,
my
lord
,
it
would
be
Mr.
Wilton
.
He
is
a
perfect
gentleman
,
and
was
dear
papa’s
friend
.
I
understand
you
will
have
three
hundred
a
year
to
begin
with
,
and
the
same
amount
as
his
secretary
.
You
ought
to
be
able
to
live
with
ease
and
propriety
on
six
hundred
a
year
—
and
this
reminds
me
of
what
I
have
been
thinking
of
before
we
went
to
Gaydene
.
I
think
now
you
ought
to
have
a
more
becoming
residence
.
The
Rodneys
are
good
people
,
I
do
not
doubt
,
and
I
dare
say
we
shall
have
an
opportunity
of
proving
our
sense
of
their
services
;
but
they
are
not
exactly
the
people
that
I
care
for
you
to
live
with
,
and
,
at
any
rate
,
you
cannot
reside
any
longer
in
a
garret
.
I
have
taken
some
chambers
in
the
Albany
,
therefore
,
for
you
,
and
they
shall
be
my
contribution
to
your
housekeeping
.
They
are
not
badly
furnished
,
but
they
belonged
to
an
old
general
officer
,
and
