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diff --git a/57944-8.txt b/57944-0.txt index b971815..a6654ed 100644 --- a/57944-8.txt +++ b/57944-0.txt @@ -1,28 +1,7 @@ -The Project Gutenberg EBook of Burgo's Romance, by T. W. Speight +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 57944 *** -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. -Title: Burgo's Romance -Author: T. W. Speight - -Release Date: September 21, 2018 [EBook #57944] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BURGO'S ROMANCE *** - - - - -Produced by Charles Bowen from by page scans provided Google Books @@ -159,7 +138,7 @@ anybody. As he made his way through the drawing-room he saw Miss Leslie sitting a little apart from the general company in a recessed window. By her side, and playing with her fan, sat young vacuous-faced Lord -Penwhistle--vacuous-faced, but enormously rich. "Ah-ha! _chère +Penwhistle--vacuous-faced, but enormously rich. "Ah-ha! _chère madame_, so that's your little game, is it?" muttered Burgo to himself. @@ -214,7 +193,7 @@ very fair catch in the matrimonial fishpond--for was he not his uncle's heir? "It's all that confounded little Penwhistle," he muttered to himself. -"He's evidently entêté with Clara, and Mrs. M. will do her best to +"He's evidently entêté with Clara, and Mrs. M. will do her best to hook him. But I flatter myself I'm first favourite there, and if that is so, by Jove! no other man shall rob me of my prize. I'll call to-morrow, and again and again, till I can get five minutes alone with @@ -289,7 +268,7 @@ those problems of which it would be invidious to attempt the solution. Of his uncle during these latter years Burgo had seen but little. The English climate disagreed with the baronet's health, or so he averred, and three-fourths of his time was spent abroad. He was a confirmed -numismatist and an inveterate _bric-à-brac_ hunter. He was said to +numismatist and an inveterate _bric-à -brac_ hunter. He was said to have one of the finest collections of coins in the three kingdoms, and his house at Oaklands overflowed with curios picked up from every country under the sun. That such a man at the mature age of @@ -898,7 +877,7 @@ day." He swept her a low bow, and as he did so his eyes crossed fire with hers. There was no flinching on either side. They both felt that -henceforth it was a duel _à outrance_ between them. But already Lady +henceforth it was a duel _à outrance_ between them. But already Lady Clinton had drawn "first blood." She rose as the door closed behind Burgo, and drew a deep breath. "So @@ -1200,7 +1179,7 @@ although what he will do, or be persuaded into doing, now that he is married, it might be dangerous to prophesy. His only extravagance, if such a term may be applied to it, has been that he could rarely or never resist a 'bargain' in the way of curios, coins, or -_bric-à-brac_; which, however, he looks upon as a judicious investment +_bric-à -brac_; which, however, he looks upon as a judicious investment of capital, his contention being that after his death his collection will sell for far more than it originally cost him--which may, or may not, prove to be the case. At any rate, whatever money he has put away @@ -1624,7 +1603,7 @@ moment that such a thing were to come to pass, what then? The circumstances of the case would in no wise be altered. To tie any girl down to his broken fortunes would be both a cruelty and a wrong. It would be very, very sweet to listen to such a confession from the lips -he loved--but--_après_? +he loved--but--_après_? Every morning he skimmed the columns of arrivals and departures in the _Morning Post_ in quest of a notification of the return to town of @@ -1830,7 +1809,7 @@ But Clara comprehended when, a few minutes later, her aunt said to her: "Mr. Brabazon's uncle has got married somewhere abroad. I've just heard the news. It may--nay, it must--make a great difference as regards the young man's prospects. The safest plan will be to give him -his _congé_. Besides, Lord Penwhistle, with whom you danced twice the +his _congé_. Besides, Lord Penwhistle, with whom you danced twice the other night, has been asking for you. He's very rich. If you play your cards judiciously, there's no knowing what may come to pass." @@ -2722,7 +2701,7 @@ His appetite was of the poorest, and it was evidently more by way of keeping the others company than for anything he partook of himself that he sat down at table. Greatly to the relief of Burgo, who began to fear that he might be condemned, later in the evening, to a -_tête-à-tête_ with Lady Clinton (who, not improbably, was beset by a +_tête-à -tête_ with Lady Clinton (who, not improbably, was beset by a similar fear), the party was made up at the last moment to a quartette in the person of Signora Dusanti, the widow of a well-known musical conductor. The signora, who herself was no mean musician, and had @@ -2914,11 +2893,11 @@ Arabian, with a canopy and curtains at the head of it. "You and I are alone in the room, uncle, I assure you." "And that door is close shut?" pointing to the one which led to his -wife's apartments, the _portière_ covering which, just then, was only +wife's apartments, the _portière_ covering which, just then, was only half drawn. Burgo crossed the room and satisfied himself on the point. Half hidden -as it was by the _portière_, it might have been open for the space of +as it was by the _portière_, it might have been open for the space of an inch or two without his being aware of it. He pressed it lightly with his hand. "It is close shut," he said, as he went back, and therewith he proceeded to pour into a glass his uncle's prescribed @@ -3006,7 +2985,7 @@ Six Everard's last words, uttered half unconsciously, had struck a chill to his heart. What did they portend? What meaning save one could they have? He had by no means forgotten what "old Garden" had told him--that if his uncle should live to see his sixty-fourth birthday, -he would inherit the legacy of £15,000 bequeathed him by his cousin, +he would inherit the legacy of £15,000 bequeathed him by his cousin, the eccentric Mrs. Macdona. Coupling this fact with the words last spoken by his uncle, it seemed to Burgo that but one conclusion could be deduced therefrom, to wit, that the baronet, unknown to his own @@ -3029,7 +3008,7 @@ seemed to clearly imply, it was horrible--horrible! What was to be done? What could be done? As far as Burgo could see--nothing. It was true that he was here, under his uncle's roof, and that unlimited access to the sick man had been granted him by Lady -Clinton, with an absence of any apparent _arrière pensèe_, which, +Clinton, with an absence of any apparent _arrière pensèe_, which, considering the circumstances, was in itself suspicious; but what then? He could not be by his uncle's side through every hour of the day and night. Sir Everard must be waited on and have his medicine @@ -3043,7 +3022,7 @@ treat the circumstance as one of little or no consequence--perhaps even to turn it to account for her own purposes. Should Sir Everard die, it might be to her advantage to be able to point to the fact that his nephew had helped to nurse him; besides which, Mr. Brabazon would -be one witness the more to her own untiring devotion in the dual rôle +be one witness the more to her own untiring devotion in the dual rôle of wife and nurse. All these things Burgo Brabazon apprehended clearly, but what he did @@ -3216,7 +3195,7 @@ second night no conversation of what might be termed a private nature passed between them. More than once, when Sir Everard was sitting up in bed, Burgo saw him glance half-apprehensively, half-suspiciously at the door which opened into his wife's apartments, or rather, at the -_portière_, which to-night was drawn completely across it. But +_portière_, which to-night was drawn completely across it. But whatever his thoughts or suspicions might be, he kept them to himself. Next forenoon Dr. Hoskins's report was again a favourable one. "A few @@ -3241,7 +3220,7 @@ night, unless requested by his uncle to do so; but, although since then his eyes had glanced at it times innumerable, after that first occasion he had seen nothing to lead him to suppose that it was otherwise than closely shut; still, so long as it remained half hidden -by the _portière_, a doubt would inevitably make itself felt. +by the _portière_, a doubt would inevitably make itself felt. All this time Lady Clinton's amiability and graciousness towards Burgo had been eclipsed by no faintest shadow of change. She treated him as @@ -3273,7 +3252,7 @@ cause her so radically to reverse her tactics towards me? She was as undoubtedly hostile to me then as she undoubtedly wishes me to believe her my friend now. Why this extraordinary _volte-face?_ There must be a motive at the bottom of it; what is that motive?" He could only -shake his head, and murmur, "_Ma chère tante_, what your little game +shake his head, and murmur, "_Ma chère tante_, what your little game is I don't in the least profess to know, but I believe you to be a snake in the grass, and a venomous one to boot, and I decline to trust you farther than I can see you." @@ -3541,7 +3520,7 @@ and that he was sleeping it off, and that when he rang I was to go upstairs and unlock the door." Mr. Brabazon laughed aloud; but it was not a pleasant laugh to hear. -"Oh, ma chère tante, que je vous aime beaucoup!" he exclaimed. The man +"Oh, ma chère tante, que je vous aime beaucoup!" he exclaimed. The man was to come when I rang the bell, but care had been taken by robbing him of his matchbox and cutting the bell rope to delay the summons as long as possible. @@ -3863,7 +3842,7 @@ gave him a certain _cachet_, and enabled him to speak with an air of authority on many subjects about which in reality he knew next to nothing. His trained eye had at once detected that "Mr. Lumsden" was not _quite_ what he professed to be--that there was far less of the -wandering artist than of the West End _flâneur_ about him. Dress, +wandering artist than of the West End _flâneur_ about him. Dress, voice, manner, and that elusive something which makes its presence felt but defies definition, all betrayed him. @@ -4067,7 +4046,7 @@ HELPLESS. Rain and wind passed away in the course of the night, and next morning the sun shone softly brilliant. After a hastily demolished breakfast -Burgo took his stick and portfolio--the latter in his assumed _rôle_ +Burgo took his stick and portfolio--the latter in his assumed _rôle_ of a wandering artist--and sallied forth. He retained sufficient recollection of the geography of the place to know in which direction Garion Keep lay, and thereby spare himself the necessity of an appeal @@ -5633,7 +5612,7 @@ professor in the same town. Marie would do anything for me, and my idea is, to write to her and ask her, immediately on receipt of my letter, to telegraph to Lady Clinton to the effect that her son is dangerously ill, and that her immediate presence is earnestly -requested. I have not forgotten the name of Carlo's _lycée_, and the +requested. I have not forgotten the name of Carlo's _lycée_, and the message would of course be represented as coming from there. That her ladyship will at once respond to it I do not doubt. Meanwhile," she added, with a smile, "that is to say, during the time which would have @@ -6201,7 +6180,7 @@ the full extent of my ability. The circumstances under which I find you here are exceptional, to say the least"--this with a frank smile--"consequently, without the slightest hankering to pry into matters which do not concern me, I may perhaps be allowed to say _Me -voici à votre service, cher monsieur!_" +voici à votre service, cher monsieur!_" Few people could have helped being touched by an offer so frankly and spontaneously tendered, and Burgo was not one of those few. @@ -6676,7 +6655,7 @@ your message. Young Offredi in most robust health. Has not suffered an hour's illness since his arrival at Lausanne." Lady Clinton let the express go without her. One or two more messages -passed between herself and the head of the _lycée_, and then she set +passed between herself and the head of the _lycée_, and then she set her face homeward, satisfied that for once in her life she had been outwitted, and a prey to fears such as turned her soul faint within her. 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