Beauchamp's Career -- Volume 4

Lespel's hired cutter. Steam was up, and the countess was off for a cruise in the Channel, as it was not a race- day, but seeing Mr. Romfrey's hand raised, she spoke to Cecil,

arm. Lady Menai would gladly have persuaded him to be one of her company for the day's voyage, but he said he had busi

ent historians relating what great kings, ambassadors, or Generals may well have uttered on State occasions,

ther difficult to....' He glanced at the horsewhip, and pricked by the sight of it to proceed, thought it good to soften the

s before Lord Palmet?' s

m what he had heard Shrapnel say, suggesting: 'He spoke of a hands

y cleared

t of gratified spleen, in scorn of the woman. 'Don't

. He was patient in appearance, and waited fo

cigar that he had been recommended to try the flavour of; and though he, having his wits about him, was fully aware that shipboard is no good place for a trial of the delicacy of tobacco in the leaf, he had begun puffing and sniffing in a critical spirit, and scarcely knew for the moment what to decide as to this particular cigar. He remembered, however, Mr. Romfrey's objection to tobacco. Imagining that

ere doubtful characters,' Ca

f a cigar to rekindle it, and discharged it with a wry grimace, so delicate is the flavour of that weed, and so adversely ever is it affected by a

ere. 'I can be out in the Channel any day; it is not every day tha

ttle crowd of men came round him to enjoy his famous racy talk. Captain Baskelett offered to land with him. He declined companions

of his eyes, she said, 'Oh

rumour was correct, he had d

nder his arm, his head more than commonly bent, a noticeable point in a man of his tall erect figu

hether he knew the nature of his uncle's b

ut no? His uncle had n

being the sole confid

s of a pedigree-map his preliminary steps to deeds were seen pointing on their issue in lines of straight descent. But Cecil could protest that he was not bound to know, and considering that he was neither bound to know nor to speculate, he determined to