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 L T H A I E. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 ' I REMEMBER HIM a little boy,' said the 
 Duchess, ' a pretty little boy, but very shy. 
 His mother brought him to us one day. 
 She was a dear friend of mine; you know 
 she was one of my bridesmaids? ' 
 
 ' And you have never seen him since, 
 mamma ? ' enquired a married daughter, 
 who looked like the younger sister of her 
 mother. 
 
 ' Never ; he was an orphan shortly after: 
 I have often reproached myself, but it is so 
 difficult to see boys. Then, he never went 
 to school, but was brought up in the High- 
 lands with a rather savage uncle; and if he 
 
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 2 LOTH AIR. 
 
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 and Bertram had not become friends at 
 Christchurch, I do not well see how we ever 
 could have kno"\^Ti him.' 
 
 These remarks were made in the morning- 
 room of Brentham, where the mistress of the 
 mansion sate surrounded by her daughters, 
 all occupied with various works. One 
 knitted a purse, another adorned a slipper, a 
 third emblazoned a page. Beautiful forms 
 in counsel leant over frames glowing with 
 embroiderv, while two fair sisters more 
 remote occasionally burst into melody, as 
 they tried the passages of a new air, 
 which had been communicated to them in 
 the manuscrij^t of some devoted friend. 
 
 The Duchess, one of the greatest heiresses 
 of Britain, singularly beautiful and gifted 
 with native grace, had married in her teens 
 one of the wealthiest and most powerful of 
 our nobles, and scarcely older than herself. 
 Her husband was as distinguished for his 
 appearance and his manners as his bride, 
 and those who speculate on race were 
 interested in watching the developement of
 
 LOTHAIR. 3 
 
 their progeny, who m form, and colour, and 
 voice, and manner, and mind were a 
 reproduction of their parents, who seemed 
 only the elder brother and sister of a gifted 
 circle. The daughters with one exception 
 came first, and all met the same fate. After 
 seventeen years of a delicious home they 
 were presented, and immediately married; 
 and all to personages of high consideration. 
 After the first conquest, this fate seemed as 
 regular as the order of nature. Then came 
 a son, who was now at Christchurch, and 
 then several others, some at school, and 
 some scarcely out of the nursery. There 
 was one daughter unmarried, and she was 
 to be presented next season. Though the 
 family likeness was still apparent in Lady 
 Corisande, in general expression she differed 
 from her sisters. They were all alike with 
 their delicate aquUine noses, bright com- 
 plexions, short upper lips, and eyes of sunny 
 light. The beauty of Lady Corisande was 
 even more distinguished and more regular, 
 but whether it were the effect of her dark- 
 
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 ■4 LOTIIAIR. 
 
 bro^vn hair and darker eyes, her countenance 
 had not the histre of the rest, and its 
 expression was grave and perhaps pensive. 
 
 The Duke thouo:h still younof and natu- 
 rally of a gay and joyous temperament, 
 had a high sense of duty, and strong 
 domestic feelings. He was never wanting 
 in his public place, and he was fond of his 
 wife and his children ; still more proud of 
 them. Every day when he looked into 
 the glass, and gave the last touch to his 
 consummate toilette, he offered liis grateful 
 thanks to Providence that his family was 
 not unworthv of him. 
 
 His Grace was accustomed to say that 
 he had only one misfortune, and it was a 
 great one ; he had no home. His family 
 had married so many heiresses, and he, 
 consequently, possessed so many halls and 
 castles, at all of which, periodically, he 
 wished, from a right feehng, to reside, 
 that there was no sacred spot identified 
 with his life in which his heart, in the 
 bustle and tumult of existence, could 
 take refuge. Brentham was the original
 
 LOTHAIR. O 
 
 seat of his family, and he was even pas- 
 sionately fond of it ; but it was remarkable 
 how very short a period of his yearly life 
 was passed under its stately roof. So it 
 was his custom always to repair to Bren- 
 tham the moment the season was over, and 
 he would exact from his children, that, 
 however short might be the time, they 
 would be his companions under those cir- 
 cumstances. The daughters loved Bren- 
 tham, and they loved to please their 
 father ; but the sons-in-law, though they 
 were what is called devoted to their T^ives, 
 and, unusual as it may seem, scarcely less 
 attached to their legal parents, did not fall 
 very easily into this arrangement. The 
 country in August without sport was 
 unquestionably to them a severe trial : 
 nevertheless, they rarely omitted making 
 their appearance, and if they did occa- 
 sionally vanish, sometimes to Cowes, some- 
 times to Switzerland, sometimes to Norway, 
 they always MTote to their wives, and 
 always alluded to their immediate or ap- 
 proaching return ; and their letters grace-
 
 6 LOTHAIR. 
 
 fully contributed to the fund of domestic 
 amusement. 
 
 And vet it would be difficult to find a 
 fairer scene than Brentham offered, es- 
 pecially in the lustrous effulgence of a 
 glorious English summer. It was an 
 Italian palace of freestone ; vast, ornate, and 
 in scrupulous condition ; its spacious and 
 graceful chambers filled with treasures of 
 art, and rising itself from statued and 
 stately terraces. At their foot spread a 
 gardened domain of considerable extent, 
 bright with flowers, dim with coverts of 
 rare shrubs, and musical with fountains. 
 Its limit reached a park, with timber such 
 as the midland counties only can produce. 
 The fallow deer trooped among its ferny 
 solitudes and gigantic oaks ; but beyond 
 the waters of the broad and winding lake, 
 the scene became more savage, and the 
 eye caught the dark form of the red deer 
 on some jutting mount, shrinking with 
 scorn from communion with his gentler 
 brethren.
 
 LOTHAIK. 
 
 CHAPTER 11. 
 
 LoTHAiR was the little boy whom the 
 Duchess remembered. He was a posthu- 
 mous child, and soon lost a devoted mother. 
 His only relation was one of his two guar- 
 dians, a Scotch noble — a Presbyterian and 
 a Whig. This uncle was a widower with 
 some children, but they were girls, and, 
 though Lothair was attached to them, too 
 young to be his companions. Their father 
 was a keen, hard man, honourable and just, 
 but with no softness of heart or manner. 
 He guarded with precise knowledge and 
 with unceasing vigilance over Lothair's 
 vast inheritance, which was in many coun- 
 ties and in more than one kingdom ; but 
 he educated him in a lligliland home, and 
 when he had reached ])oyhood thought fit 
 to send him to the Higli Sch(X)l of Edin-
 
 8 LOTHAIE. 
 
 burgh. Lothair passed a monotonous, if 
 not a dull, life; but he found occasional 
 solace in the scenes of a wild and beautiful 
 nature, and delight in all the sports of the 
 field and forest, in which he was early 
 initiated and completely indulged. Al- 
 though an Englishman, he was fifteen be- 
 fore he revisited his country, and then his 
 glimpses of England were brief, and to him 
 scarcely satisfactory. He was hurried some- 
 times to vast domains, which he heard 
 were his oA^ai; and sometimes whisked to 
 the huge metropolis, where he was shown 
 St. Paul's and the British Museum. These 
 visits left a vague impression of bustle 
 without kindness, and exhaustion without 
 excitement; and he was glad to get back 
 to his glens, to the moor and the mountain- 
 stream. 
 
 His father, in the selection of his guar- 
 dians, had not contemplated this system of 
 education. While he secured, by the ap- 
 pointment of his brother-in-law, the most 
 competent and trustworthy steward of his
 
 LOTIIAIR. y 
 
 son's fortune, he had depended on another 
 for that mfluence which should mould the 
 character, guide the opinions, and form the 
 tastes of his child. The other gTiardian 
 was a clergyman, his father's private tutor 
 and heart-friend; scarcely his parent's 
 senior, but exercising over him irresistible 
 influence, for he was a man of shining 
 talents and abounding knowledge, brilliant 
 and profound. But unhappily, shortly after 
 Lothair became an orphan, this distin- 
 guished man seceded from the Anglican 
 communion, and entered the Church of 
 Rome. From this moment there was war 
 between the guardians. The uncle endea- 
 voured to drive his colleague from the 
 trust : in this he failed, for the priest would 
 not renounce his office. The Scotch noble 
 succeeded, however, in making it a fruitless 
 one : he thwarted every suggestion that 
 emanated from the obnoxious quarter ; and, 
 indeed, the secret reason of the almost con- 
 stant residence of Lothair in Scotland, and 
 of his harsh education, was the fear of his
 
 10 LOTHAIR. 
 
 relative, that the moment he crossed the 
 border he might, by some mysterious pro- 
 cess, fall under the influence that his guar- 
 dian so much dreaded and detested. 
 
 There was, however, a limit to these 
 severe precautions even before Lothair 
 should reach his majority. His father had 
 expressed in his will that his son should be 
 educated at the University of Oxford, and 
 at the same college of which he had been a 
 member. His uncle was of opinion he 
 complied with the spirit of this instruction 
 by sending Lothair to the University of 
 Edinburgh, which would give the last 
 tonic to his moral system ; and then com- 
 menced a celebrated chancery suit, instituted 
 by the Roman Catholic guardian, in order 
 to enforce a literal compliance with the 
 educational condition of the will. The 
 uncle looked upon this movement as a 
 Popish plot, and had recourse to every 
 available allegation and argument to baffle 
 it : but ultimately in vain. With every pre- 
 caution to secure his Protestant principles,
 
 LOTHAIR. 11 
 
 and to guard against the influence, or even 
 personal interference, of his Roman CathoHc 
 guardian, the Lord Chancellor decided that 
 Lothair should be sent to Christchurch. 
 
 Here Lothair, who had never been 
 favoured with a companion of his own age 
 and station, soon found a congenial one in 
 the heir of Brentham. Inseparable in 
 pastime, not dissociated even in study, 
 sympathising companionship soon ripened 
 into fervent friendship. They lived so 
 much together that the idea of separation 
 became not only painful but impossible; 
 and, when vacation arrived, and Brentham 
 was to be visited by its future lord, what 
 more natural than that it should be ar- 
 ranged that Lothair should be a visitor to 
 his domain?
 
 12 LOTHAIR. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 Although Lothair was the possessor of as 
 many palaces and castles as the Duke hmi- 
 self, it is curious that his first dinner at 
 Brentham was almost his introduction into 
 refined society. He had been a guest at 
 the occasional banquets of his uncle ; but 
 these were festivals of the Picts and Scots ; 
 rude plenty and coarse splendour, with 
 noise instead of conversation, and a tumult 
 of obstructive dependants, who impeded, by 
 their want of skill, the very convenience 
 which they were purposed to facilitate. 
 How difierent the surrounding scene ! A 
 table covered with flowers, bright with 
 fanciful crystal, and porcelain that had 
 belonged to sovereigns, who had given a 
 name to its colour or its form. As for 
 those present all seemed grace and gentle-
 
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 ness, from tlie radiant daughters of the 
 house to the noiseless attendants that 
 anticipated all his wants, and sometimes 
 seemed to suggest his wishes. 
 
 Lothair sat between two of the married 
 daughters. They addressed him with so 
 much s}Tnpathy that he was quite en- 
 chanted. When they asked their pretty 
 questions and made their sparkling re- 
 marks, roses seemed to drop from their lips, 
 and sometimes diamonds. It was a rather 
 large party, for the Brentham family were 
 so numerous that they themselves made a 
 festival. There were four married daugh- 
 ters, the Duke and two sons-in-law, a 
 clergjmian or two, and some ladies and 
 gentlemen who were seld'om absent from 
 this circle, and who, by their useful talents 
 and various accomplishments, alleviated 
 the toil or cares of life from which even 
 princes are not exempt. 
 
 When the ladies had retired to the 
 Duchesss drawing-room, all the married 
 dau£!;hters clustered round their mother.
 
 14 LOTHAIR. 
 
 ' Do you know, mamma, we all think 
 him very good-looking,' said the yomigest 
 married daughter, the wife of the listless 
 and handsome St. Aldegonde. 
 
 ' And not at all shy ' said Lady Mon- 
 tairv, ' thouo;h reserved.' 
 
 ' I admire deep blue eyes with dark 
 lashes,' said the Duchess. 
 
 Notwithstanding the decision of Lady 
 Montairy, Lothair was scarcely free from 
 embarrassment when he rejoined the ladies; 
 and was so afraid of standing alone, or talk- 
 ing only to men, that he was almost on the 
 point of finding refuge in his dinner com- 
 panions, had not he instinctively felt that 
 this would have been a social blunder. 
 But the Duchess relieved him: her gracious 
 glance caught his at the right moment, and 
 she rose and met him some way as he ad- 
 vanced. The friends had arrived so late, 
 that Lothafr had had only time to make 
 a reverence of ceremony before dinner. 
 
 ' It is not our first meeting,' said her 
 Grace ; ' but that you cannot remember.'
 
 LOTHAIR. 15 
 
 ' Indeed I do ' said Lothair, ' and vour 
 Grace gave me a golden heart.' 
 
 ' How can you remember such things,' 
 exclaimed the Duchess, ' which I had my- 
 self forgotten ! ' 
 
 ' I have rather a good memory,' replied 
 Lothair; ' and it is not wonderful that 1 
 should remember this, for it is the only 
 present that ever was made me.' 
 
 The evenings at Brentham were short, 
 but they were sweet. It was a musical 
 family, without being fanatical on the sub- 
 ject. There was always music, but it was 
 not permitted that the guests should be de- 
 prived of other amusements. But music was 
 the basis of the evening's campaign. The 
 Duke himself sometimes took a second; the 
 four married daughters warbled sweetly ; but 
 the great performer was Lady Corisande. 
 When her impassioned' tones sounded, 
 there was a hushed silence in every cham- 
 ber ; otherwise, many things were said 
 and done amid accompanying melodies, 
 that animated without distracting even a
 
 16 LOTH AIR. 
 
 whistplayer. The Duke himself rather 
 preferred a game of piquet or ecarte with 
 Captain Mildmay, and sometimes retired 
 with a troop to a distant, but still visible, 
 apartment, where they played with bil- 
 liard balls games which were not billiards. 
 
 The ladies had retired, the Duke had 
 taken his glass of seltzer water, and had 
 disappeared. The gentlemen lingered and 
 looked at each other, as if they were an 
 assembly of poachers gathering for an ex- 
 pedition, and then Lord St. Aldegonde, 
 tall, fair, and languid, said to Loth air, ' Do 
 you smoke ? ' 
 
 'No!' 
 
 ' I should have thought Bertram would 
 have seduced you by this time. Then let 
 us try. Montairy will give you one of his 
 cigarettes, so mild that his wife never 
 finds him out.*
 
 LOTH AIR. .1 7 
 
 CHAPTER lY. 
 
 The breakfast-room at Brentham was very 
 bright. It opened on a garden of its own, 
 which, at this season, was so glowing, and 
 cultured into patterns so fanciful and 
 finished, that it had the resemblance ot 
 a vast mosaic. The walls of the cham- 
 ber were covered with bright drawings and 
 sketches of our modern masters, and frames 
 of interesting miniatures, and the meal was 
 served on half-a-dozen or more round 
 tables, Avhich vied with each other in grace 
 and merriment ; brilliant as a cluster of 
 Greek or Italian republics, instead of a 
 great metropolitan table, like a central 
 government absorbing all the genius and 
 resources of the society. 
 
 Every scene in this life at Brentham 
 charmed Lothair, who, though not conscious 
 
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 18 LOTHAIll 
 
 of being of a particularly gloomy temper j 
 often felt that he had, somehow or other, 
 hitherto passed through life rarely with 
 pleasure, and never with joy. 
 
 After breakfast the ladies retired to their 
 morning-room, and the gentlemen strolled 
 to the stables, Lord St. Aldegonde light- 
 ing a Manilla cheroot of enormous length. 
 As Lothair was very fond of horses this 
 delighted him. The stables at Bren- 
 tham were rather too far from the house, 
 but they were magnificent, and the stud 
 worthy of them. It was numerous and 
 choice, and, above all, it was useful. It 
 could supply a readier number of capital 
 riding horses than any stable in England. 
 Brentham was a great riding family. In 
 the summer season the Duke delighted to 
 head a numerous troop, penetrate far into the 
 country, and scamper home to a nine o'clock 
 dinner. All the ladies of the house were fond 
 and fine horsewomen. The mount of one of 
 these riding parties was magical. The dames 
 and damsels vaulted on their barbs, and
 
 LOTHAIR. 1.9 
 
 genets, and thorough-bred hacks, with such 
 airy majesty; they were absolutely over- 
 whelming with their bewildering^ habits 
 and their bewitching hats. 
 
 Everything was so new in this life at 
 Brentham to Lothair, as well as so agree- 
 able, that the first days passed by no 
 means rapidly ; for, though it sounds 
 strange, time moves with equal slowness 
 whether we experience many impressions 
 or none. In a new circle every character 
 is a study, and every incident an adven- 
 ture ; and the multiplicity of the images 
 and emotions restrains the hours. But 
 after a few days, though Lothair was not 
 less delighted, for he was more so, he was 
 astonished at the rapidity of time. The 
 life was exactly the same, but equally 
 pleasant; the same charming companions, 
 the same refined festivity, the same fas- 
 cinating amusements ; but to his dismay 
 Lothair recollected that nearly a fortnight 
 had elapsed since his arrival. Lord St. 
 Aldegonde also was on the wing ; he was 
 
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 20 LOTHAIR. 
 
 obliged to go to Cowes to see a sick friend, 
 though he considerately left Bertha behind 
 him. The other son-in-law remained, for 
 he could not tear himself away from his 
 wife. He was so distractedly fond of 
 Lady Montairy that he would only smoke 
 cigarettes. Lothair felt it was time to go, 
 and he broke the circumstance to his 
 friend Bertram. 
 
 These two ' old fellows,' as they mutually 
 described each other, could not at all agree 
 as to the course to be pursued. Bertram 
 looked upon Lothair's suggestion as an act 
 of desertion from himself At their time 
 of life, the claims of friendship are para- 
 mount. And where could Lothair go to ? 
 And what was there to do ? Nowhere, 
 and nothing. Whereas, if he would re- 
 main a little longer, as the Duke expected 
 and also the Duchess, Bertram would go 
 with him anywhere he liked, and do any- 
 thing he chose. So Lothair remained. 
 
 In the evening, seated by Lady Mon- 
 tairy, Lothair observed on her sister's
 
 LOTHAIR. 21 
 
 singing, and said, ' I never heard any of 
 our great singers, but I cannot believe 
 there is a finer voice in existence.' 
 
 ' Corisande's is a fine voice,' said Ladv 
 Montairy, ' but I admire her expression 
 more than her tone ; for there are certainly 
 many finer voices, and some day you will 
 hear them.' 
 
 ' But I prefer expression,' said Lothair 
 very decidedly. 
 
 ' Ah, yes ! doubtless,' said Lady Mon- 
 tairy, who was working a purse, ' and that's 
 what we all want, I believe ; at least we 
 married daughters, they say. My brother, 
 Granville St. Aldegonde, says, we are all 
 too much alike, and that Bertha St. Alde- 
 gonde would be perfect if she had no 
 sisters.' 
 
 ' I don't at all agree with Lord St. Alde- 
 gonde,' said Lothair with energy. ' I do not 
 think it is possible to have too many re- 
 latives like you and your sisters.' 
 
 Lady Montairy looked up with a smile, 
 but she did not meet a smiling counte-
 
 22 LOTHAIR. 
 
 nance. He seemed, what is called, an ear- 
 nest young man, this friend of her brother 
 Bertram. 
 
 At this moment the Duke sent swift 
 messengers for all to come, even the 
 Duchess, to partake in a new game just 
 arrived from Russia, some miraculous 
 combination of billiard-balls. Some rose 
 directly, some lingering a moment arrang- 
 ing their work, but all were in motion. 
 Corisande was at the piano, and disen- 
 cumbering herself of some music. Lothair 
 went up to her rather abruptly : 
 
 ' Your singing,' he said, ' is the finest 
 thing I ever heard. I am so happy that I 
 am not going to leave Brentham to-mor- 
 row. There is no place in the world that 
 1 think equal to Brentham.' 
 
 ' And I love it too, and no other place,' 
 she replied ; ' and I should be quite happy 
 if I never left it.'
 
 LOTHAIR. 23 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 Lord Montairy was passionately devoted 
 to croquet. He flattered himself that he 
 was the most accomplished male performer 
 existing. He would have thought abso- 
 lutely the most accomplished, were it not 
 for the unrivalled feats of Lady Montairy. 
 She was the queen of croquet. Her sisters 
 also used the mallet Avith admirable skill, 
 but not like Georgina. Lord Montairy 
 always looked forward to his summer cro- 
 quet at Brentham. It was a great croquet 
 family, the Brentham family; even listless 
 Lord St. Aldegonde would sometimes play 
 with a cigar never out of his mouth. They 
 did not object to his Bmoking in the air. 
 On the contrary, ' they rather liked it.' 
 Captain Mddmay too was a brilliant hand,
 
 24 LOTHAIR. 
 
 and had written a treatise on croquet — the 
 best going. 
 
 There was a great croquet party one 
 morning at Brentham. Some neighbours 
 had been invited who loved the sport. Mr, 
 Blenkinsop, a grave young gentleman, 
 whose countenance never relaxed while he 
 played, and who was understood to give 
 his mind entirely up to croquet. He was 
 the owner of the largest estate in the 
 county, and it was thought would have 
 very much liked to have allied himself 
 with one of the young ladies of the House 
 of Brentham ; but these flowers were always 
 plucked so quickly, that his relations with 
 the distinguished circle never grew more 
 intimate than croquet. He drove over 
 with some fine horses and several cases 
 and bags containing instruments and 
 weapons for the fray. His sister came 
 with him, who had forty thousand pounds, 
 but, they said, in some mysterious manner 
 dependent on his consent to her marriage; 
 and it was added that Mr. Blenkinsop
 
 LOTHAIE. 25 
 
 would not allow his sister to marry because 
 he would miss her so much in his favourite 
 pastime. There were some other morning 
 visitors, and one or two young curates in 
 cassocks. 
 
 It seemed to Lothair a game of great 
 deliberation and of more interest than 
 gaiety, though sometimes a cordial cheer, 
 and sometimes a ringing laugh of amiable 
 derision, notified a signal triumph or a 
 disastrous failure. But the scene was bril- 
 liant: a marvellous lawn, the Duchess's 
 Turkish tent with its rich hano-incTs, and 
 the players themselves, the prettiest of all 
 the spectacle, with their coquettish hats, 
 and their half-veiled and half-revealed 
 under-raiment, scarlet and silver, or blue 
 and gold, made up a sparkling and modish 
 scene. 
 
 Lothair who had left the players for 
 awhile, and was regaining the lawn, met 
 the Duchess. 
 
 ' Your Grace is not going to leave us, 
 T hope?' he said, rather anxiously.
 
 26 LOTHAIR. 
 
 ' For a moment. I have long promised 
 to visit the new dairy ; and I think this a 
 good opportunity.' 
 
 ' I wish I might be your companion,' 
 said Lothair ; and, invited, he was by her 
 Grace's side. 
 
 They turned into a winding walk of 
 thick and fragrant shrubs, and, after a 
 while, they approached a dell, surrounded 
 with high trees that environed it with per- 
 petual shade ; in the centre of the dell was 
 apparently a Gothic shrine, fair in design 
 and finished in execution, and this was the 
 Duchess's new dairy. A pretty sight is a 
 firstrate dairy, with its flooring of fanciful 
 tiles, and its cool and shrouded chambers, 
 its stained windows and its marble slabs, 
 and porcelain pans of cream, and plenteous 
 platters of fantastically formed butter. 
 
 ' Mrs. AVoods and her dairymaids look 
 like a Dutch picture,' said the Duchess. 
 ' Were you ever in Holland ? ' 
 
 ' I have never been anywhere,' said Lo- 
 thair.'
 
 LOTH AIR. ' 27 
 
 ' You should travel,' said the Duchess. 
 
 ' I have no wish,' said Lothair. 
 
 ' The Duke has given me some Coreean 
 fowls,' said the Duchess to Mrs. Woods, 
 when they had concluded their visit. ' Do 
 you think you could take care of them for 
 me ? ' 
 
 ' Well, Grace, I am sure I will do my 
 best; but then they are very troublesome, 
 and I was not fortunate with my Cochin. 
 I had rather they were sent to the aviary, 
 Grace, if it were all the same.' 
 
 ' I should so like to see the aviary,' said 
 Lothair. 
 
 ' Well, we will go.' 
 
 And this rather extended their walk, 
 and withdrew them more from the great 
 amusement of the day. 
 
 ' I wish your Grace would do me a great 
 favour,' said Lothair, abruptly breaking a 
 rather prolonged silence. 
 
 ' And what is that? ' said the Duchess. 
 
 ' It is a very great favour,' repeated 
 Lothair.
 
 28 LOTHAIR. 
 
 ' If it be in my power to grant it, its 
 magnitude would only be an additional 
 recommendation.' 
 
 'Well,' said Lothair, blushing deeply, 
 and speaking with much agitation, ' I 
 would ask your Grace's permission to offer 
 my hand to your daughter.' 
 
 The Duchess looked amazed. ' Cori- 
 sande ! ' she exclaimed. 
 
 ' Yes, to Lady Corisande.' 
 
 ' Corisande,' replied the Duchess, after a 
 pause, ' has absolutely not yet entered the 
 world. Corisande is a child; and you — 
 you, my dear friend — I am sure you will 
 pardon me if I say so — you are not very 
 much older than Corisande.' 
 
 ' I have no wish to enter the world,' said 
 Lothair, with much decision. 
 
 ' I am not an enemy to youthful mar- 
 riages,' said the Duchess. ' I married early 
 myself, and my children married early; 
 and I am very happy, and I hope they are ; 
 but some experience of society before we 
 settle is most desirable, and is one of the
 
 LOTHAIE. 29 
 
 conditions, I cannot but believe, of that 
 felicity which we all seek.' 
 
 ' I hate society,' said Lothair. ' I would 
 never go out of my domestic circle, if it 
 were the circle I contemplate.' 
 
 * My dear young friend,' said the Duchess, 
 ' you could hardly have seen enough of 
 society to speak with so much decision.' 
 
 ' I have seen quite enough of it,' said 
 Lothair. ' I went to an evening party last 
 season — I came up from Christchurch on 
 purpose for it — and if ever they catch me at 
 another, they shall inflict any penalty they 
 please.' 
 
 ' I fear it was a stupid party,' said the 
 Duchess, smiling, and glad to turn, if 
 possible, the conversation into a lighter 
 vein. 
 
 ' No, it was a very grand party, I be- 
 lieve, and not exactly stupid — it was not 
 that; but I was disgusted with all I saw 
 and all I heard. It seemed to me a mass 
 of affectation, falsehood, and malignity.' 
 
 * Oh ! dear,' said the Duchess, ' how very
 
 so LUTHAIK. 
 
 dreadful ! But I did not mean merely going 
 to parties for society; I meant knowledge 
 of the world, and that experience which 
 enables us to form sound opinions on the 
 affairs of life.' 
 
 ' Oh ! as for that/ said Lothair, ' my 
 opinions are already formed on every sub- 
 ject; that is to say, every subject of im- 
 portance; and, what is more, they will 
 never change.' 
 
 ' I could not say that of Corisande,' said 
 the Duchess. 
 
 ' I think we agree on all the great 
 things,' said Lothair, musingly. ' Her 
 Church views may be a little higher than 
 mine, but I do not anticipate any perma- 
 nent difficulty on that head. Although 
 my uncle made me go to kirk, I always 
 hated it, and always considered myself a 
 churchman. Then, as to churches them- 
 selves, she is in favour of building churches, 
 and so am I; and schools — there is no 
 quantity of schools I would not establish. 
 My opinion is, you cannot have too much
 
 LOTHAIR. 31 
 
 education, provided it be founded on a 
 reli2:ious basis. I would sooner renounce 
 the whole of ray inheritance than consent 
 to secular education.' 
 
 ' I should be sorry to see any edu- 
 cation but a religious education,' remarked 
 the Duchess. 
 
 ' ^\^ell, then,' said Lothair, ' that is our 
 life, or a great part of it. To complete it, 
 there is that to which I really wish to 
 devote my existence, and in which I 
 instinctively feel Lady Corisande would 
 sympathise with me — the extinction of 
 pauperism.' 
 
 ' That is a vast subject,' said the 
 Duchess. 
 
 ' It is the terror of Europe and the dis- 
 grace of Britain,' said Lothair ; ' and I am 
 resolved to grapple "v^'ith it. It seems to 
 me that pauperism is not an affair so much 
 of wages as of dwellings. If the working 
 classes were properly lodged, at their pre- 
 sent rate of wages, they would be richer. 
 They would be healthier and happier at
 
 32 LOTHAIR. 
 
 the same cost. I am so convinced of this, 
 that, the moment I am master, I shall build 
 2,000 cottages on my estates. I have the 
 designs already.' 
 
 ' I am much in favour of improved 
 dwellings for the poor,' said the Duchess; 
 ' but then you must take care that your 
 dwellmgs are cottages, and not villas like 
 my cousin's, the Duke of Luton.' 
 
 ' I do not think I shall make that mis- 
 take,' replied Lothair. ' It constantly en- 
 gages my thought. I am wearied of 
 hearing of my wealth, and I am conscious 
 it has never brought me any happiness. 
 I have lived a great deal alone, dearest 
 Duchess, and thought much of these things, 
 but I feel now I should be hardly equal to 
 the effort, unless I had a happy home to 
 fall back upon.' 
 
 ' And you will have a happy home in due 
 time,' said the Duchess ; ' and with such 
 good and great thoughts you deserve one. 
 But take the advice of one who loved your 
 mother, and who would extend to vou the
 
 LOTHAIR. 33 
 
 same affection as to her own children : 
 before you take a step which cannot be 
 recalled, see a little more of the world.' 
 
 Lothair shook his head. ' No,' he said, 
 after a pause. ' My idea of perfect society 
 is being married as I propose, and paying 
 visits to Brentham; and when the visits to 
 Brentham ceased, then I sliould like you 
 and the Duke to pay visits to us.' 
 
 ' But that would be a fairy tale,' said 
 the Duchess. 
 
 So they walked on in silence. 
 
 Suddenly, and abruptly, Lothair turned 
 to the Duchess and said, ' Does your Grace 
 see any objection to my speaking to your 
 daughter ?' 
 
 ' Dear friend, indeed yes. What you 
 would say Avould only agitate and disturb 
 Corisande. Her character is not yet 
 formed, and its future is perplexing, at 
 least to me,' murmured the mother. 
 ' Slie has not the simple nature of her 
 sisters. It is a deeper and more coiiipli- 
 
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 34 LOTHAIE. 
 
 catecl mind, and I Avatch its develope- 
 rnent with fond but anxious interest.' 
 Then in a lighter tone she added, ' You 
 do not know very much of us. Try to 
 know more. Everybody under this roof 
 ■views you with regard, and you are 
 the brother friend of our eldest son» 
 Wherever we are, you will always find a 
 home; but do not touch again upon this 
 subject, at least at present, for it distresses 
 me.' And then she took his arm and 
 pressed it, and by this time they had gained 
 the croquet ground.
 
 LOTHAIE. 35 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 One of the least known squares in London 
 is Hexham Square, though it is one of the 
 oldest. Xot that it is very remote from 
 the throng of existence, but it is isolated 
 in a dingy district of silent and decaying 
 streets. Once it was a favoured residence 
 of opulence and power, and its architecture 
 still indicates its former and prouder 
 destiny. But its noble mansions are now 
 divided and broken up into separate dwell- 
 ings, or have been converted mto chambers 
 and offices. Lawyers, and architects, and 
 agents dwell in apartments where the riclily- 
 sculptured chimneypieces, the carved and 
 gilded pediments over the doors, and some- 
 times even the painted ceilings, tell a tale 
 of vanished stateliness and splendour. 
 A considerable portion of the north side 
 
 D 2
 
 36 LOTHAIR. 
 
 of the square is occupied by one house 
 standing in a courtyard, with iron gates to 
 the thoroughfare. This is Hexham House, 
 and where Lord Hexham lived in the days 
 of the first Georges. It is reduced in size 
 since his time, two considerable wings hav- 
 ing been pulled do^Mi about sixty years 
 ago, and their materials employed in build- 
 ing some residences of less pretension. 
 But the bodv of the dwelling-house re- 
 mains, and the courtyard, though reduced 
 in size, has been retamed. 
 
 Hexham House has an old oak entrance 
 hall panelled with delicacy, and which has 
 escaped the rifling arts of specidators in 
 furniture ; and out of it rises a staircase of 
 the same material, of a noble character, 
 adorned occasionally with figures ; armorial 
 animals holding shields, and sometimes a 
 grotesque form rising from fruits and 
 flowers, all doubtless the Avork of some 
 famous carver. The staircase leads to a 
 corridor, on which several doors open, and 
 throuo:h one of these, at the moment of our
 
 LOTHAIR. 37 
 
 history, a man, dressed m a dark cassock 
 and holding a card in his hand, was enter- 
 ing a spacious chamber, meagerly, but not 
 shabbily, furnished. There was a rich 
 cabinet and a fine picture. In the next 
 room, not less spacious, but which had a 
 more inhabited look ; a cheerful fire, tables 
 covered with books and papers, and two- 
 individuals busily at work with their pens; 
 he gave the card to a 2:entleman who w^ore 
 also the cassock, and who stood before the 
 fire with a book in his hand and apparently 
 dictating to one of the writers. 
 
 'Impossible!' said the gentleman, shak- 
 ing liis head ; ' I could not even go in as 
 Monsijrnore Berwick is with his Eminence.' 
 
 'But what shall I do?' said the attendant; 
 'his Eminence said that when Mr. Giles 
 called he never was to be denied.' 
 
 ' The Monsignore has been here a long 
 time; you must beg Mr. Giles to wait. 
 Make him comfortable ; give him a news- 
 paper; not the "Tablet," the "Times;" 
 men like Mr. Giles love reading the adver- 
 
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 38 LOTHAIE. 
 
 tisements. Or stop, give him this, his 
 Eminence's lecture on geology; it will show 
 him the Church has no fear of science. 
 Ah! there's my bell, Mr. Giles will not 
 have to wait long.' So saying the gentle- 
 man put down his volume and disappeared, 
 through an antechamber, into a further 
 apartment. 
 
 It was a library, of moderate dimensions, 
 and yet its well-filled shelves contained all 
 the weapons of learning and controversy 
 which the deepest and the most active of ec- 
 clesiastical champions could require. It was 
 unlike modern libraries, for it was one in 
 which folios greatly predominated; and they 
 stood in solemn and sometimes masriiificent 
 array, for they bore, many of them, on their 
 ancient though costly bindings, the proofs 
 that they had belonged to many a prince 
 and even sovereign of the Church. Over 
 the mantelpiece hung a portrait of his Holi- 
 ness, Pius IX., and on the table, in the midst 
 of many papers, was an ivory crucifix. 
 
 The master of the library had risen from
 
 LOTHAIR. 39 
 
 his seat when the chief secretary entered, 
 and was receix'ing an obeisance. Above the 
 middle height, his stature seemed magnified 
 by the attenuation of his form. It seemed 
 that the soul never had so frail and fragile 
 a tenement. He was dressed in a dark cas- 
 sock with a red border, and wore scarlet 
 stockings; and over his cassock a purple 
 tippet, and on his breast a small golden cross. 
 His countenance was naturally of an extreme 
 pallor, though at this moment slightly 
 flushed with the animation of a. deeply m- 
 teresting conference. His cheeks were hol- 
 low, and his grey eyes seemed sunk into his 
 clear and noble brow, but they flashed with 
 irresistible penetration. Such was Cardinal 
 Grandison. 
 
 ' All that I can do is,' said his Eminence 
 when his visitor was ushered out, and 
 slightly shrugging his shoulders, ' is to get 
 it postponed until I go to Home, and even 
 then I must not delay my visit. This cross- 
 ing tlic Al])s in winter is a trial ; but we must 
 never repine ; and there is nothing which
 
 40 LOTHAIR. 
 
 we must not encounter to prevent incal- 
 culable mischief. The publication of the 
 Scotch hierarchy at this moment mil destroy 
 the labours of years. And yet they will 
 not see it ! I cannot conceive who is urging- 
 them, for I am sure they must have some 
 authority from home. ' You have something 
 for me, Chidiock,' he added enquiringly, for 
 his keen eye caught the card. 
 
 ' I regTet to trouble your Eminence when 
 you need repose, but the bearer of this card 
 seems to have been importunate and to have 
 appealed to your name and personal orders ; ' 
 and he gave the Cardinal the card. 
 
 ' Yes,' said the Cardinal looking at the 
 card with much interest ; ' this is a person 
 I must always see.' 
 
 And so, in due course, they ushered into 
 the library a gentleman with a crimson and 
 well-stuffed bag, of a composed yet cheerful 
 aspect, who addressed the Cardinal with 
 respect but without embarrassment, sayings 
 ' I am ashamed to trouble your Eminence 
 with only matters of form — absolutely mere
 
 LOTHAIR. 41 
 
 matters of form; but I obey, sir, your o"\vii 
 instructions.' 
 
 ' It is not for me to depreciate form,' re- 
 plied the Cardinal ; ' and in business there 
 are no mere matters of form.' 
 
 ' Merely the wood accounts,' continued 
 the \dsitor; 'they must be approved by 
 both the guardians, or the money cannot be 
 received by the bankers. Your Eminence, 
 you see, has sanctioned the felling, and 
 authorized the sales, and these are the 
 final accounts, which must be signed before 
 we pay in.' 
 
 ' Give them to me,' said the Cardinal, 
 stretching out Iwth his hands as he received 
 a mass of paper folios. His Eminence re- 
 sumed his chair, and hastily examined the 
 sheets. 'Ah!' he said, 'no ordinary fel- 
 ling — it reaches over seven counties. By 
 the bye, Bracewood Forest — what about the 
 enclosure? I have heard no more of it.' 
 Then, nun'inuring to himself — ' Grentham 
 Wood — how well I remember Grentliam 
 Wood, witli his dear father!'
 
 42 LOTHAIR. 
 
 * If we could sign to-day,' said the visitor 
 in a tone of professional cajolery : ' time is 
 important.' 
 
 ' And it shall not be wasted,' replied the 
 Cardinal. ' But I must look over the ac- 
 counts. I doubt not all is quite regular, 
 but I wish to make myself a little familiar 
 with the scene of action ; perhaps to recall 
 the past,' he added. ' You shall have them 
 to-morrow, Mr. Giles.' 
 
 ' Your Eminence will have very different 
 accounts to settle in a short time,' said Mr. 
 Giles smiling. 'We are hard at work; it 
 takes three of our clerks constantly occupied.' 
 
 ' But you have yet got time.' 
 
 ' I don't know that,' said Mr. Giles. ' The 
 affairs are very large. And the mines — 
 they give us the greatest trouble. Our 
 Mr. James Roundell was two months in 
 Wales last year about them. It took up 
 the whole of his vacation. And your Emi- 
 nence must remember that time flies. In 
 less than eight months he will be of age.' 
 
 ' Very true,' said the Cardinal, 'time 
 indeed flies, and so much to be done ! By
 
 LOTHAIE. 43 
 
 the bye, Mr. Giles, have you by any chance 
 heard anythmg latel}' of my child?' 
 
 ' I have heard of him a good deal of late, 
 for a client of ours, Lord Montairy, met 
 him at Brentham this summer, and was a 
 long' time there with him. After that, I 
 hear, he went deer-stalking with some of his 
 young friends ; l)ut he is not very fond of 
 Scotland ; had rather too much of it, I sus- 
 pect; but the truth is, sir, 1 saw him this 
 very day.' 
 
 ' Indeed ! ' 
 
 ' Some affairs ha^e brought him up to 
 town, and I rather doubt whether he will 
 return to Oxford — at least, so he talks.' 
 
 'Ah ! I have never seen him since he was 
 an infant I might say,' said the CardhiaL 
 * I suppose I shall see him again, if only 
 when I resign my trust ; but I know not. 
 And yet few things would be more inter- 
 esting to me than to meet him ! ' 
 
 Mr. Giles seemed moved, for him almost 
 a little embarrassed; he seemed to blush, 
 and then he cleared his throat. ' It would 
 be too great a liberty,' said Mr. Giles, ' I
 
 44 LOTHAIR. 
 
 feel that very much — and yet, if your 
 Emmence would condescend, though I 
 hardly suppose it possible, his Lordship is 
 really going to do us the honour of dining 
 with us to-day; only a few friends, and if 
 your Eminence could make the sacrifice^ 
 and it were not an act of too great pre- 
 sumption, to ask your Eminence to join 
 our party.' 
 
 ' I never eat and I never drink,' said the 
 Cardinal. ' I am sorry to say I cannot. I 
 like dinner society very much. You see 
 the world, and you liear things which you 
 do not hear otherwise. For a time I pre- 
 sumed to accept invitations, though I sat 
 with an empty plate ; but though the world 
 was indulgent to me, I felt that my habits 
 were an embarrassment to the happier 
 feasters : it was not fair, and so I gave it 
 up. But I tell you what, Mr. Giles : I shall 
 be in your quarter this evening : perhaps 
 you would permit me to drop in and pay 
 my respects to Mrs. Giles — T have wished 
 to do so before.'
 
 LOTHAIR. 45 
 
 CHAPTER YII. 
 
 Mr. Giles was a leading partner in the 
 firm of Roundells, Giles, and Roundell, 
 among the most eminent solicitors of Lin- 
 coln's Inn. He, in these days of prolonged 
 maturity, might be described as still a 
 young man. He had inherited from his 
 father not only a large share in a firstrate 
 business, but no inconsideral)le fortune ; and 
 though he had, in her circles, a celebrated 
 wife, he had no children. He was opulent 
 and prosperous, with no cares and anxieties 
 of liis own, and loved liis ])rofession, for 
 which he was peculiarly qualified, being a 
 man of luicommon sagacit}', very difficult 
 to deceive, and yet one who sympathised 
 with his clients, who were all })ersonally 
 attached to liiin, and many oi" whom were 
 among the distniguished personages of the 
 realm.
 
 46 LOTHAIR. 
 
 During an important professional visit to 
 Ireland, Mr. Giles had made the acquaint- 
 ance of Miss Apollonia Smylie, the niece of 
 an Irish peer; and though the lady was 
 much admired and courted, had succeeded, 
 after a time, in inducing her to become the 
 partner of his life. 
 
 Mrs. Giles, or as she described herself 
 Mrs. Putney Giles, taking advantage of a 
 second and territorial Christian name of her 
 husband, was a showy woman; decidedly 
 handsome, unquestionably accomplished, 
 and gifted with energy and enthusiasm 
 which far exceeded even her physical ad- 
 vantages. Her principal mission was to 
 destroy the Papacy and to secure Italian 
 unity. Her lesser impulses were to become 
 acquainted with the aristocracy, and to be 
 herself surrounded by celebrities. Having 
 a fine house in Tyburnia, almost as showy 
 as herself, and a husband who was never so 
 happy as when gratifying her wishes, she 
 did not find it difficult in a considerable 
 degree to pursue and even accomplish her
 
 LOTH AIR. 47 
 
 objects. The Putney Giles gave a great 
 many dinners, and Mrs. Putney received 
 her world frequently, if not periodically. 
 As they entertained with profusion, her 
 well-lighted saloons were considerably at- 
 tended. These assemblies were never dull ; 
 the materials not being ordinary, often 
 startling, sometimes even brilliant, occa- 
 sionally rather heterogeneous. For though 
 being a violent Protestant and of extreme 
 conservative opinions, her antipapal anti- 
 pathies and her Italian predilections fre- 
 quently involved her with acquaintances 
 not so distinguished as she deemed herself 
 for devotion to the cause of order and 
 orthodoxy. It was rumoured that the 
 brooding brow of Mazzini had been observed 
 in her rooms, and there was no sort of ques- 
 tion that she had thro^vn herself in ecstatic 
 idolatry at the feet of the hero of Caprera. 
 
 On the morning of the day on which he 
 intended to visit Cardinal Grandison, Mr. 
 Giles, in his chambers at Lincoln's Inn, was 
 suddenly apprised by a clerk, that an inter-
 
 48 LOTHAIR. 
 
 view with him was sought by a client no 
 less distinguished than Lothair. 
 
 Although Mr. Giles sat opposite two rows 
 of tin boxes, each of which was numbered, 
 and duly inscribed with the name of 
 Lothair and that of the particular estate to 
 which it referred, Mr. Giles, though he 
 had had occasional communications witli his 
 client, was personally unacquainted with 
 him. He viewed, therefore, with no ordi- 
 nary curiosity the young man who was 
 ushered into his room; a shapely youth 
 slightly above the middle height ; of simple, 
 but distinguished mien, with a countenance 
 naturally pale, though somewhat bronzed by 
 a life of air and exercise, and a profusion 
 of dark auburn hair. 
 
 ./Vnd for what could Lothair be calling on 
 Mr. Giles? 
 
 It seems that one of Lothair's intimate 
 companions had got into a scrape, and 
 under these circumstances had what is 
 styled ' made a friend ' of Lothair ; that is 
 to say, confided to him his trouble, and
 
 LOTHAIR. 49 
 
 asked his advice, Tvith a ^-iew, when given, 
 of its being followed by an offer of assist- 
 ance. 
 
 Lothair, though inexperienced and very 
 ingenuous, was not devoid of a certain in- 
 stinctive perception of men and things, 
 which rendered it difficult for him to be an 
 easy. prey. His natural disposition, and his 
 comparatively solitary education, had made 
 him a keen observer, and he was one who 
 meditated over his observations. But he 
 was naturally ii:enerous and sensible of kind-- 
 ness ; and this was a favourite companion 
 — next to Bertram his most intimate. 
 
 Lothair was quite happy in the opportu- 
 nity of soothing a perturbed spirit whose 
 society had been to him a source of so much 
 gratification. 
 
 It was not until Lothair had promised to 
 extricate his friend from Ids overwhelmini": 
 difficulties, that, upon reflection and exam- 
 ination, he found tlie act on his part was not 
 so simple and so easy as he had assumed it 
 to be. His guardians had apportioned to 
 
 VOL. I. E
 
 50 LOTHAIR. 
 
 him an allowance in every sense adequate 
 to his position; and there was no doubt, had 
 he wished to exceed it for any legitimate 
 purpose, not the slightest difficulty on their 
 part would have been experienced. 
 
 Such a conjuncture had never occurred. 
 Lothair was profuse, but he was not prodi- 
 gal. He gratified all his fancies, but they 
 were not ignoble ones ; and he was not only 
 sentimentally, but systematically, charitable. 
 He had a great number of fine horses, and 
 he had just paid for an expensive yacht. 
 In a word, he spent a great deal of money, 
 and until he called at his bankers to learn 
 what sums were at his disposition he was 
 not aware that he had overdrawn his ac- 
 count. 
 
 This was rather awkward. Lothair 
 wanted a considerable sum, and he wanted 
 it at once. Irrespective of the consequent 
 delay, he shrimk from any communication 
 with his guardians. From his uncle he had 
 become, almost insensibly, estranged, and 
 with his other guardian he had never had
 
 LOTHAIR. 51 
 
 the slightest communication. Under these 
 circumstances he recalled the name of the 
 solicitor of the trustees, between whom and 
 himself there had been occasional corre- 
 spondence ; and being of a somewhat im- 
 petuous disposition, he rode off at once from 
 his hotel to Lincoln's Inn. 
 
 Mr. Giles listened to the narrative with 
 mibroken interest and unswerving patience, 
 with his eyes fixed on his client, and occa- 
 sionally giving a sympathetic nod. 
 
 ' And so,' concluded Lothair, ' I thought 
 I would come to you.' 
 
 ' We are honoured,' said Mr. Giles. 
 ' And, certainly, it is quite absurd that your 
 Lordship should want mone}', and for a 
 worthy purpose, and not be able to com- 
 mand it. Why ! the balance in the name 
 of the trustees never was so great as at this 
 moment ; and this very day, or to-morrow 
 at furthest, I shall pay no less than eight- 
 and-thirty thousand pounds timber money 
 to the account.'
 
 52 LOTHAIR. 
 
 ' Well, I don't want a fifth of that,' said 
 Lothair. 
 
 ' Your Lordship has an objection to ap- 
 ply to the trustees ? ' inquired Mr. Giles.' 
 
 ' That is the point of the whole of my 
 statement,' said Lothair, somewhat im- 
 patiently. 
 
 ' And yet it is the right and regular 
 thing,' said Mr. Giles. 
 
 ' It may be right and it may be regular, 
 but it is out of the question.' 
 
 ' Then we will say no more about it. 
 What I want to prevent,' said Mr. Giles^ 
 musingly, ' is anything absurd happening. 
 There is no doubt if your Lordship went 
 into the street and said you wanted ten 
 thousand pounds, or a hundred thousand, 
 fifty people would supply you immediately 
 — but you would have to pay for it. Some 
 enormous usury! That would be bad; but 
 the absurdity of the thing would be greater 
 than the mischief. Roundells, Giles, and 
 Koundell could not help you in that man- 
 ner. That is not our business. We are
 
 LOTHAin. 53 
 
 glad to find money for our clients at a legal 
 rate of interest, and the most moderate rate 
 feasible. But then there must be security, 
 and the best security. But here we must 
 not conceal it from ourselves, my Lord, we 
 have no securitv whatever. At this mo- 
 ment your Lordship has no property. An 
 insurance office might do it with a policy. 
 They might consider that they had a moral 
 security ; but still it would be absurd. 
 There is something absurd in your Lordship 
 having to raise money. Don't you think I 
 could see these people,' said Mr. Giles, ' and 
 talk to them, and gain a little time. We 
 only want a little time,' 
 
 ' No,' said Lothair in a peremptory tone. 
 ' I said I would do it, and it must be done, 
 and at once. Sooner than tliere should be 
 dela}', I would rather go into the street, as 
 you suggest, and ask the first man I met to 
 lend me the money. My word has been 
 given, and I do not care what 1 pay to 
 fulfil mv word.' 
 
 ' We must not think of such things,' said 
 
 VOL. I, • E 3
 
 54 LOTHAIE. 
 
 Mr. Giles, shaking his head. ' All I want 
 your Lordship to understand is the exact 
 position. In this case we have no security. 
 Roundells, Giles, and Roundell cannot move 
 without security. It would be against our 
 articles of partnership. But Mr. Giles, as 
 a private individual, may do what he likes. 
 I will let your Lordship have the money, 
 and I will take no security whatever — not 
 even a note of hand. All that I will ask 
 for is that your Lordship should write me a 
 letter, saying you have urgent need for a 
 sum of money (mentioning amount) for an 
 honourable purj^ose, in which your feehngs 
 are deeply interested — and that will do. If 
 anything happens to your Lordship before 
 this time next year, why, I think, the trus- 
 tees could hardly refuse repaying the money; 
 and if they did, why then,' added Mr. Giles, 
 ' I suppose it "svill be all the same a hundred 
 years hence.' 
 
 ' You have conferred on me the greatest 
 obligation,' said Lothair, with much earnest- 
 ness. ' Language cannot express what I
 
 LOTH AIR. 55 
 
 feel. I am not too much used to kindness, 
 and I only hope that I may live to show 
 my sense of yours.' 
 
 ' It is really no great affair, my Lord,' 
 said Mr. Gdes. ' I did not wish to make 
 difficulties, but it was my duty to put the 
 matter clearly before you. What I propose 
 to do is really nothing. I could do no less; 
 I should have felt quite absurd if your Lord- 
 ship had gone mto the money market.' 
 
 ' I only hope,' repeated Lothair, rismg 
 and offering Mr, Giles his hand, ' that life 
 may give me some occasion to prove my 
 gratitude.' 
 
 ' Well, my Lord,' replied Mr. Giles, ' if 
 your Lordship wish to repay me for any 
 little interest I have shown m your affairs, 
 you can do that, over and over again, and 
 at once.' 
 
 ' How so ? ' 
 
 * By a very great favour, by which Mrs. 
 Giles and myself would be deeply gratified. 
 We have a few friends Avho honour us by 
 dining with us to-day in Hyde Park Gar-
 
 56 LOTH AIR. 
 
 dens. If your Lordship would add the great 
 
 distmction of your presence ' 
 
 ' I should only be too much honoured,' 
 exclaimed Lothair : ' I suppose about eight,' 
 and he left the room ; and Mr. Giles tele- 
 graphed instantly the impending event to 
 Apollonia.
 
 LOTHAIR. 37 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 It was a great day for ApoUonia ; not only 
 to have Lothair at her right hand at 
 dinner, but the prospect of receiving a 
 Cardinal in the evening. But she was 
 equal to it ; though so engrossed, indeed, 
 in the immediate gratification of her liopes 
 and wishes, that she could scarcely dwell 
 sufficiently on the coming scene of triumph 
 and social excitement. 
 
 The repast was sumptuous ; Lothair 
 thought the dinner would never end, there 
 were so many dishes, and apparently all of 
 the highest pretension. ]>ut if his simple 
 tastes had permitted hiui to take an in- 
 terest in these details, which they did not, 
 he would have ])ecn assisted by a gorgeous 
 menu of gold and \vliit(; typogra])hy, that 
 was by the side of each guest. The table
 
 58 LOTHAIR. 
 
 seemed literally to groan under vases and 
 gigantic flagons, and, in its midst, rose a 
 mountain of silver, on which apparently 
 all the cardinal virtues, several of the 
 pagan deities, and Britannia herself, illus- 
 trated with many lights a glowing in- 
 scription, which described the fervent 
 feelino-s of a o-rateful client. 
 
 There were many guests : the Dowager 
 of Farringford, a lady of quality, Apol- 
 lonia's great lady, who exercised under 
 this roof much social tyranny; in short, 
 was rather fine ; but who, on this occasion, 
 was somewhat cowed by the undreamt-of 
 presence of Lothair. She had not yet met 
 him, and probably never would have met 
 him, had she not had the good fortune of 
 dining at his lawyer's. However, Lady* 
 Farringford was placed a long way from 
 Lothair, having been taken down to dinner 
 by Mr. Giles, and so, by the end of the 
 first course. Lady Farringford had nearly 
 resumed her customary despotic vein, and 
 was beginning to indulge in several kind
 
 LOTHAIR. 59 
 
 observations, cheapening to her host and 
 hostess and indirectly exalting herself; 
 upon which Mr. Giles took an early easy 
 opportunity of apprising Lady Farringford, 
 that she had nearly met Cardinal Gran- 
 dison at dinner, and that his Eminence 
 would certainly pay his respects to Mrs. 
 Putney Giles in the evening. As Lady 
 Farringford was at present a high ritualist, 
 and had even been talked of as 'going to 
 Rome,' this intelligence was stunning, and 
 it was observed that her Ladyship was un- 
 usually subdued during the whole of the 
 second course. 
 
 On the right of Lothair sate the wife of 
 a Vice-Chancellor, a quiet and pleasing 
 lady, to whom Lothair, with natural good 
 breeding, paid snatches of happy attention, 
 when he could for a moment with propriety 
 withdraw himself from the blaze of Apol- 
 lonia's coruscating conversation. Then 
 there was a rather fierce-looking Red Rib- 
 bon, medalled as well as be-starred, and the 
 Red Ribbon's wife, with a blushin"" dau<'hter.
 
 60 " LOTHAIR. 
 
 in spite of her parentage not yet accustomed 
 to stand fire. A partner and his unusually 
 numerous family had the pleasure also of 
 seeing Lothair for the first tune, and there 
 were no less than four M.P.s, one of 
 whom was even in office. 
 
 Apollonia was stating to Lothair, with 
 brilliant perspicuity, the reasons which 
 quite induced her to believe that the Gulf 
 Stream had changed its course, and the 
 political and social consequences that might 
 accrue. 
 
 ' The religious sentiment of the Southern 
 races must be wonderfully affected by a 
 more rigorous climate,' said Apollonia. ' I 
 cannot doubt,' she continued, ' that a series 
 of severe winters at Eome might put an 
 end to Romanism.' 
 
 ' But is there any fear that a reciprocal 
 influence might be exercised on the Nor- 
 thern nations ? ' enquired Lothair. ' Would 
 there be any apprehension of our Pro- 
 testantism becoming proportionately re- 
 laxed.'
 
 LOTHAIR. 61 
 
 ' Of course not,' said Apollonia. ' Truth 
 cannot be affected by climate. Truth is 
 truth ahke in Palestine and Scandinavia.' 
 
 ' I wonder what the Cardinal would 
 think of this,' said Lothair, ' who, you tell 
 me, is coming to you this evening.' 
 
 ' Yes, I am most interested to see him, 
 though he is the most puissant of our foes. 
 Of course he would take refusre in so- 
 phistry ; and science, you know, they deny.' 
 
 ' Cardinal Grandison is giving some 
 lectures on science,' said the Vice-Chan- 
 cellor's lady quietly. 
 
 ' It is remorse,' said Apollonia. ' Their 
 clever men can never forc^et tliat unfor- 
 tunate affair of Galileo, and think they can 
 divert the indignation of tlie nineteenth 
 century by mock zeal about red sandstone 
 or the origin of species.' 
 
 'And are you afraid of the Gulf Stream,' 
 enquired Lotliair of his calmer neigh- 
 bour. 
 
 ' I think we want more evidence of a 
 change. The Vice-Chancellor and myself
 
 62 LOTHAIR. 
 
 went down to a place we have near town 
 on Saturday, where there is a very nice 
 piece of water ; indeed, some people call it 
 a lake ; but it was quite fi-ozen, and my 
 boys wanted to skate, but that I would 
 not permit.' 
 
 ' You beheve in the Gulf Stream to that 
 extent,' said Lothair, — ' no skating.' 
 
 The Cardinal came early ; the ladies had 
 not long left the dining-room. They were 
 agitated when his name was announced; 
 even Apollonia's heart beat; but then that 
 might be accounted for by the inopportune 
 recollection of an occasional correspondence 
 with Caprera. 
 
 Nothing could exceed the simple suavity 
 with which the Cardinal appeared, ap- 
 proached, and greeted them. He thanked 
 ApoUonia for her permission to pay his 
 respects to her, which he had long wished 
 to do ; and then they were all presented, 
 and he said exactly the right thing to 
 everyone. He must have heard of them 
 all before, or read their characters in their
 
 LOTHAIR. 63 
 
 countenances. In a few minutes tliev 
 were all listening to his Eminence with 
 enchanted ease, as, sitting on the sofa 
 by his hostess, he described to them the 
 ambassadors who had just arrived from 
 Japan, and -with whom he had relations 
 of interesting affairs. The Japanese Go- 
 vernment had exhibited enlisfhtened kind- 
 ness to some of his poor people who 
 had barely escaped martyrdom. Much 
 might be expected from the Mikado, e^d- 
 dently a man of smgular penetration and 
 elevated views; and his Eminence looked 
 as if the mission of Yokohama would 
 speedily end in an episcopal see; but he 
 knew where he was, and studiously avoided 
 all controversial matter. 
 
 After all the Mikado himself was not 
 more remarkable than this Prince of the 
 Church in a Tyburnian drawing-room, 
 habited in his pink cassock and cape, and 
 waving, as he spoke, with careless grace, 
 his pink l)arrette. 
 
 The ladies thought the gentlemen re-
 
 64 LOTHAIR. 
 
 joined them too soon; hut Mr. Giles, wlien 
 he was apprised of the arrival of the Car- 
 dinal, thought it right to precipitate the 
 symposinm. With great tact, when the 
 Cardinal rose to greet him, Mr. Giles with- 
 drew his Eminence from those surrounding, 
 and, after a l)rief interchange of whispered 
 words, quitted him, and then brought for- 
 ward and presented Lothair to the Cardinal, 
 and left them. 
 
 ' This is not the first time that we should 
 have met,' said the Cardinal; 'but my hap- 
 piness is so great at this moment that, 
 though I deplore, I ^^dll not dwell on, the 
 past.' 
 
 ' I am, nevertheless, grateful to you, sir, 
 for many services, and have more than 
 once contemplated taking the liberty of 
 personally assuring your Eminence of my 
 gratitude.' 
 
 ' I think we might sit do^vn,' said the 
 Cardinal, looking around ; and then he led 
 Lothair into an open but interior saloon, 
 where none were yet present, and where 
 they seated themselves on a sofa, and were
 
 LOTHAIR. 65 
 
 soon engaged in apparently interesting 
 converse. 
 
 In the meantime the world gradually 
 filled the principal saloon of ApoUonia, and 
 when it approached overflo"\^dng, occasion- 
 ally some persons passed the line, and 
 entered the room in which the Cardinal 
 and his ward were seated, and then, as if 
 conscious of violating some sacred place, 
 drew back. Others on the contrary, with 
 coarser curiosity, were induced to invade 
 the chamber from the mere fact that the 
 Cardinal was to be seen there. 
 
 ' My geographical instinct,' said the Car- 
 dinal to Lothair, ' assures me that I can 
 reo:ain the staircase throucch these rooms, 
 without rejoining the busy world; so I 
 shall bid you good night, and even pre- 
 sume to give you my blessing ; ' and liis 
 Eminence glided away. 
 
 When Lothair returned to the saloon it 
 was so crowded that lie was not observed ; 
 exactly what he liked ; and he stood against 
 the wall watching all that passed, not with- 
 
 VOL. I. F
 
 66 LOTHAIR. 
 
 out amusement. A lively, social parasite, 
 who had dined there, and had thanked his 
 stars at dinner that fortune had decreed 
 he should meet Lothair, had been cruising 
 for his prize all the time that Lothair had 
 been conversing with the Cardinal, and 
 was soon at his side. 
 
 ' A strange scene this ! ' said the para- 
 site. 
 
 ' Is it unusual ? ' enquired Lothair. 
 
 ' Such a medley ! How they can be got 
 together, I marvel, — priests and philoso- 
 phers, legitimists and carbonari ! Won- 
 derful woman, Mrs. Putney Giles ! ' 
 
 ' She is very entertaining,' said Lothair, 
 ' and seems to me clever.' 
 
 ' Remarkably so,' said the parasite, who 
 had been on the point of satirising his 
 hostess, but, observing the quarter of the 
 wind, with rapidity went in for praise. ' An 
 extraordinary woman. Your Lordship had 
 a long talk with the Cardinal.' 
 
 ' I had the honour of some conversation 
 with Cardinal Grandison,' said Lothair, 
 drawing up.
 
 LOTHAIR. 67 
 
 ' I wonder what the Cardmal would have 
 said if he had met Mazzini here ? ' 
 
 ' Mazzini ! Is he here? ' 
 
 ' Not now ; but I have seen him here,' 
 said the parasite, 'and our host such a 
 Tory ! That makes the thing so amusing ; ' 
 and then the parasite went on making small 
 personal observations on the surrounding 
 scene, and every now and then telling little 
 tales of great people with whom, it ap- 
 peared, he was intimate — all concerted fire 
 to gain the very great social fortress he was 
 now besieging. The parasite was so full 
 of himself, and so anxious to display him- 
 self to advantage, that with all his practice 
 it was some time before he perceived he 
 did net make all the way he could wish 
 with Lothair; who was courteous, but 
 somewhat monosyllabic and absent. 
 
 ' Your Lordship is struck by that face ? ' 
 said the parasite. 
 
 Was Lothair struck by tliat face ? And 
 what was it? 
 
 He had exchanged glances with that
 
 G8 LOTHAIR. 
 
 face during the last ten minutes, and the 
 mutual expression was not one of sympathy 
 l)ut curiosity blended, on the part of the 
 face, with an expression, if not of disdain, 
 of extreme reserve. 
 
 It was the face of a matron, apparently 
 of not many summers, for her shapely figure 
 was still slender, though her mien was 
 stately. But it was the countenance that 
 had commanded the attention of Lothair : 
 pale, but perfectly Attic in outline, with 
 the short upper lip and the round chin, and 
 a profusion of dark chesnut hair bound 
 by a Grecian fillet, and on her brow a 
 star. 
 
 ' Yes, I am struck by that face. Who is 
 it?' 
 
 ' If your Lordsliip could only get a five 
 francpiece of the last French Republic, 
 1850, you would know. I dare say the 
 moneychangers could get you one. All 
 the artists of Paris, painters, and sculptors, 
 and medalists, were competing to produce a 
 face worthy of representing " La Republique
 
 LOTHAIR. 69 
 
 fran9aise ; " nobody was satisfied, when Ou- 
 dine caught a girl of not seventeen, and, 
 with a literal reproduction of nature, gained 
 the prize with unanimity.' 
 
 'Ah!' 
 
 ' And though years have passed, the 
 countenance, has not changed ; perhaps im- 
 proved.' 
 
 ' It is a countenance that will bear, per- 
 haps even would require, maturity,' said 
 Lothair ; ' but she is no longer " La Re- 
 publique fran9aise ; " what is she now ? ' 
 
 ' She is called Theodora, though married, 
 I believe, to an Englishman, a friend of 
 Garibaldi. Her birth unknown; some say 
 an Italian, some a Pole ; all sorts of stories. 
 But she speaks every language, is ultra- 
 cosmopolitan, and has invented a new reli- 
 gion.' 
 
 ' A new religion ! ' 
 
 ' Would your Lordship care to be in- 
 troduced to her? I know her enou^rh for 
 that. Shall we go up to her? '
 
 70 LOTHAIE. 
 
 ' I have made so many new acquaintances 
 to-day,' said Lothair, as it were starting 
 from a reverie, ' and indeed heard so many 
 new things, that I think I had better say 
 good night;' and he graciously retired.
 
 LOTHAIR. 71 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 About the same time that Lothair had 
 repaired to the residence of Mr. Giles, 
 Monsignore Bermck, whose audience of the 
 Cardinal in the morning had preceded that 
 of the legal adviser of the trustees, made 
 his way towards one of the noblest mansions 
 in St. James's Square, where resided Lord 
 St. Jerome. 
 
 It was a mild winter evening ; a little 
 fog still hanging about, but vanquished by 
 the cheerful lamps, and the voice of the 
 muffin bell was just heard at intervals; a 
 genial sound that calls up visions of trim 
 and happy hearths. If we could only so 
 contrive our lives as to go into the country 
 for the first note of the nightingale, and 
 return to town for the first note of the
 
 72 LOTHAIR. 
 
 muffin bell, existence, it is humbly pre- 
 sumed, might be more enjoyable. 
 
 Monsignore Berwick "was a young man, 
 but looking younger from a countenance 
 almost of childhood; fair, with light blue 
 eyes, and flaxen hair and delicate features. 
 He was the last person you would have 
 fixed upon as a born Roman ; but nature, in 
 one of the freaks of race, had resolved that 
 his old Scottish blood should be re-asserted, 
 though his ancestors had sedulously blended 
 it, for many generations, with that of the 
 princely houses of the eternal city. The 
 Monsignore was the greatest statesman of 
 Rome, formed and favoured by Antonelli, 
 and probably his successor. 
 
 The mansion of Lord St. Jerome was a 
 real family mansion, built by his ancestors 
 a century and a half ago, when they 
 believed that from its central position, its 
 happy contiguity to the Court, the senate, 
 and the seats of Government, they at last 
 in St. James's Square had discovered a site 
 which could defy the vicissitudes of fashion,
 
 • LOTHAIR. 73 
 
 and not share the fate of their river palaces, 
 which they had been obliged in turn to 
 relinquish. And in a considerable degree 
 they were right in their anticipation, for 
 although they have somewhat unwisely 
 permitted the Clubs to invade too success- 
 fully their territory, St. James's Square may 
 be looked upon as our Faubourg St. Ger- 
 main, and a great patrician residing there 
 dwells in the heart of that free and noble 
 life of which he ought to be a part. 
 
 A marble hall and a marble staircase, 
 lofty chambers with silk or tapestried hang- 
 ings, gilded cornices, and painted ceilings, 
 gave a glimpse of almost A'^enetian splen- 
 dour, and rare in our metropolitan houses 
 of this age; but the first dwellers in St. 
 James's Square had tender and inspiring 
 recollections of the Adrian bride, had 
 frolicked in St. Mark's, and glided in ad- 
 venturous gondolas. The Monsignore was 
 ushered into a chamber bright with lights 
 and a blazing fire, and welcomed with ex- 
 treme cordiality by his hostess, who was
 
 74 LOTHAIR. 
 
 then alone. Lady St. Jerome was still the 
 young wife of a nobleman not old. She 
 was the daughter of a Protestant house, 
 but, during a residence at Rome after her- 
 marriage, she had reverted to the ancient 
 faith, which she professed with the enthu- 
 siastic convictions of a convert. Her whole 
 life was dedicated to the triumph of the 
 Catholic cause ; and being a woman of con- 
 siderable intelligence and of an ardent mind, 
 she had become a recognised power in the 
 great confederacy which has so much 
 influenced the human race, and which has 
 yet to play perhaps a mighty part in the 
 fortunes of the world. 
 
 ' I was in great hopes that the Cardinal 
 would have met you at dinner,' said Lady 
 St. Jerome, ' but he wrote only this after- 
 noon to say unexpected business would 
 prevent him, but he would be here in the 
 evenino; thouo-h late.' 
 
 ' It must be something sudden, for I was 
 with his Eminence this morning, and he 
 then contemplated our meeting here.'
 
 LOTHAIR. 75 
 
 ' Xothing from abroad ? ' 
 
 ' I should think not, or it would be 
 known to me. There is nothing new from 
 abroad this afternoon : my time has been 
 spent in writing, not receiving, despatches.' 
 
 ' And all well, I hope ? ' 
 
 ' This Scotch business plagues us. So 
 far as Scotland is concerned it is quite ripe ; 
 but the Cardinal counsels delay on account 
 of this country, and he has such a consum- 
 mate knowledge of England, that ' 
 
 At this moment Lord St. Jerome en- 
 tered the room — a grave but gracious per- 
 sonage, polished but looking silent, though 
 he immediately turned the conversation to 
 the weather. The Monsignore began denoun- 
 cing English fogs; but Lord St. Jerome 
 maintained that, on the whole, there were 
 not more fogs in England tlian in any 
 other country ; ' and as for the French,' he 
 added, ' I like their audacity, for when they 
 revolutionised the calendar, they called one 
 of their months Brumaire.' 
 
 Then came in one of his Lordship's chap-
 
 76 LOTHAIR. 
 
 kins who saluted the Monsignore with rever- 
 ence, and immediately afterwards a beauti- 
 ful young lady, his niece, Clare Arundel. 
 
 The family were li\dng in a convenient 
 suite of small rooms on the ground-floor, 
 called the winter rooms, so dinner was 
 announced by the doors of an adjoining 
 chamber being thrown open, and there 
 they saw, in the midst of a chamber hung 
 with green silk and adorned with some 
 fine cabinet-pictures, a small round table 
 bright and glowing. 
 
 It was a lively dinner. Lord St. Jerome 
 loved conversation, though he never con- 
 versed. ' There must be an audience,' he 
 would say, ' and I am the audience.' The 
 partner of his life, whom he never ceased 
 admiring, had originally fascinated him 
 by her conversational talents ; and even if 
 nature had not impelled her, Lady St. 
 Jerome was too wise a woman to relin- 
 quish the spell. The Monsignore could 
 always, when necessary, sparkle with anec- 
 dote or blaze with repartee; and all the
 
 LOTHAIR. 77 
 
 chaplains, who abounded in this house, 
 were men of bright abilities, not merely 
 men of reading but of the world, learned 
 in the world's ways, and trained to govern 
 mankind by the versatility of their sjTQpa- 
 thies. It was a dinner where there could 
 not be two conversations going on, and 
 where even the silent take their share in 
 the talk by their sympathy. 
 
 And among the silent, as silent even 
 as Lord St. Jerome, was Miss Arundel; 
 and yet her large ^'iolet eyes, darker even 
 than her dark brown hair, and gleaming 
 with intelligence, and her rich face man- 
 tling "R-ith emotion, proved she was not 
 insensible to the witty passages and the 
 bright and interesting narratives that were 
 sparkling and flowing about her. 
 
 The gentlemen left the dining-room with 
 the ladies in the continental manner. Lady 
 St. Jerome, who was leanino' on the arm 
 of the ]\Ionsignore, guided him into a saloon 
 further than the one they had re-entered, 
 and then seating herself said, ' You were
 
 78 , LOTHAIR. 
 
 telling me about Scotland, that you yourself 
 thought it ripe.' 
 
 ' Unquestionably. The original plan 
 was to have established our hierarchy 
 when the Kirk split up; but that would 
 have been a mistake, it was not then ripe. 
 There would have been a fanatical re- 
 action. There is always a tendency that 
 way in Scotland : as it is, at this moment, 
 the Establishment and the Free Kirk are 
 mutually sighing for some compromise 
 which may bring them together again; and 
 if the proprietors would give up theu* petty 
 patronage, some flatter themselves it might 
 be arranged. But we are thoroughly well- 
 informed, and have provided for all this. 
 We sent two of our best men into Scotland 
 some time ago, and they have invented a new 
 church, called the United Presbyterians. 
 John Knox himself was never more violent, 
 or more mischievous. The United Presby- 
 terians will do the business : they will ren- 
 der Scotland simply impossible to live in; 
 and then, when the crisis arrives, the dis-
 
 LOTHAIR. 79 
 
 tracted and despairing millions will find 
 refuge in the bosom of their only mother. 
 That is why, at home, we wanted no delay 
 in the pubHcation of the bull and the estab- 
 lishment of the hierarchy.' 
 
 ' But the Cardinal says no ? ' 
 
 ' And must be followed. For these islands 
 he has no equal. He wishes great reserve 
 at present. Affairs here are progressing, 
 gradually but surely. But it is Ireland 
 where matters are critical, or will be soon.' 
 
 ' Ireland ! I thought there was a sort of 
 understanding there — at least for the pre- 
 sent.' 
 
 The Monsignore shook his head, ' What 
 do you think of an American invasion of 
 Ireland ? ' 
 
 ' An American invasion ! ' 
 
 ' Even so ; nothing more probaljle, and 
 nothing more to be deprecated by us. 
 Now that the civil war in America is over, 
 the Irish soldiery are resolved to employ 
 tlieir experience and their weapons in 
 their own land ; but they have no thought
 
 80 LOTHAIE. 
 
 • 
 
 for the interest of the Hoi}' See, or the 
 weL^re of our Holy religion. Their secret 
 organisation is tampering with the people 
 and tampering with the priests. The diffi- 
 culty of Ireland is that the priests and the 
 people will consider everything in a purely 
 Irish point of view. To gain some local 
 object, they will encourage the principles 
 of the most lawless liberahsm, which natu- 
 rallv land them in Fenianism and Atheism. 
 And the danger is not foreseen, because 
 the Irish pohtical object of the moment is 
 alone looked to.' 
 
 ' But surelv thev can be cruided ? ' 
 
 ml .1 O 
 
 ' TVe want a statesman ia Ireland. AVe 
 hare never been able to find one ; we want 
 a man like the Cardinal. But the Irish 
 will have a native for their chief. We 
 caught Churchill young, and educated him 
 iu the Propaganda ; but he has disappointed 
 us. At first all seemed well; he was re- 
 served and austere; and we heard with 
 satisfection that he was unpopular. But 
 now that critical times are arriving, his
 
 LOTHAIE. 81 
 
 peasant blood cannot resist the contagion. 
 He proclaims the absolute equahty of all 
 religions, and of the power of the state to 
 confiscate ecclesiastical property, and not 
 restore it to us, but alienate it for ever. 
 For the chance of subvertins; the Ano:hcan 
 Establislnnent, he is favoui'ing a pohcy 
 which will subvert rehaion itself. In his 
 eagerness he cannot see that the Anglicans 
 have only a lease of our property, a lease 
 which is rapidly expiring.' 
 
 ' This is sad.' 
 
 ' It is perilous, and difficult to deal with. 
 But it must be dealt with. The problem 
 is to suppress Fenianism, and not to streng- 
 then the Protestant confederacy.' 
 
 ' And you left Rome for this ? We un- 
 derstood you were coming for somethuig 
 else,' said Lady St. Jerome in a significant 
 tone. 
 
 ' Yes, yes, I have been there, and I have 
 seen him.' 
 
 ' And have you succeeded ? 
 
 ' No ; and no one will ; at lea&t at present.' 
 
 VOL. I. G
 
 82 LOTHAIK. 
 
 ' Is all lost then ? Is the Malta scheme 
 again on the carpet ? ' 
 
 ' Our Holy Church is built upon a rock,' 
 said the Monsignore, ' but not upon the 
 rock of Malta. Nothing is lost ; Antonelli 
 is calm and sanguine, though, rest assured, 
 there is no doubt about what I teU you. 
 France has washed her hands of us.' 
 
 ' Where then are we to look for aid ? ' 
 exclaimed Lady St. Jerome, ' against the 
 assassins and atheists ? Austria, the alter- 
 native ally, is no longer near you ; and if 
 she were — that I should ever live to say it 
 —even Austria is our foe.' 
 
 ' Poor Austria ! ' said the Monsignore 
 with an unctuous sneer. ' Two things made 
 her a nation ; she was German and she was 
 Catholic, and now she is neither.' 
 
 ' But you alarm me, my dear Lord, with 
 your terrible news. We once thought that 
 Spain would be our protector, but we hear 
 bad news from Spain.' 
 
 ' Yes,' said the Monsignore, ' I think it 
 highly probable that, before a few years
 
 LOTHAIE. 83 
 
 
 
 have eULf)sed, every government in Europe 
 will be atheistical except France. Vanity 
 will always keep France the eldest son of 
 the Church, even if she wear a bonnet 
 rouge. But if the Holy Father keep Rome, 
 these strange changes will only make the 
 occupier of the chair of St. Peter more 
 powerful. His subjects will be in every 
 clime and every country, and then they 
 will be only his subjects. We shall get rid 
 of the difficulty of the divided allegiance, 
 Lady St. Jerome, Avhicli plagued our poor 
 forefathers so much.' 
 
 'If we keep Rome,' said Lady St. 
 Jerome. 
 
 ' And we shall. Let Christendom give 
 us her prayers for the next few years, and 
 Pio Nono will become the most powerful 
 monarch in Europe, and perhaps the only 
 one.' 
 
 'I hear a sound,' exclahned Lady St. 
 Jerome. 'Yes! the Cardinal has come. 
 Let us greet him.' 
 
 But as they were approaching the saloon 
 
 o2
 
 84 LOTHAIR. 
 
 the Cardinal met them, and waved them 
 back. ' We will return,' he said, ' to our 
 friends immediately, hut I want to say 
 one word to you both.' 
 
 He made them sit down. ' I am a little 
 restless,' he said, and stood before the 
 fire. ' Something interesting has happened ; 
 nothing to do with public affairs. Do not 
 pitch your expectations too high — but still 
 of importance, and certainly of great in- 
 terest — at least to me. I have seen my 
 child — my ward.' 
 
 ' Indeed an event ! ' said Lady St. Jerome, 
 evidently much interested. 
 
 ' And what is he like ? ' enquired the 
 Monsio:nore. 
 
 ' All that one could wish. Extremely 
 good-looking, highly bred, and most in- 
 genuous ; a considerable intelligence and 
 not untrained ; but the most absolutely un- 
 affected person I ever encountered.' 
 
 ' Ah ! if he had been trained by your 
 Eminence,' sighed Lady St. Jerome. ' Is it 
 too late ? '
 
 LOTH AIR. 85 
 
 "Tis an Immense position,' mnrmured 
 Berwick. 
 
 ' AYhat o'ood mio'lit lie not do ? ' said 
 Lady St. Jerome ; ' and if he be so in- 
 genuous, it seems impossible that he can 
 resist the truth.' 
 
 ' Your Ladyship is a sort of cousin of 
 his,' said the Cardinal musingly. 
 
 ' Yes ; but very remote. I dare say he 
 would not acknowledge the tie. But we 
 are kin ; we have the same blood in our 
 veins.' 
 
 ' You should make his acquaintance,' 
 said the Cardinal. 
 
 ' I more than desire it. 1 hear he has 
 been terribly neglected, brought up among 
 the most dreadful people, entirely infidels 
 and fanatics.' 
 
 ' He has been nearly two years at Ox- 
 ford,' said the Cardinal. ' That may have 
 mitigated the evil.' 
 
 ' Ah ! but you, my Lord Cardiiud, you 
 must interfere. Now that you at last
 
 86 LOTHAIR. 
 
 know liim, you must undertake the great 
 task ; you must save him.' 
 
 ' We must all pray, as I pray every morn 
 and every night ' said the Cardinal, ' for 
 the conversion of England.' 
 
 ' Or the conquest,' murmured Berwick,
 
 LOTHAIK. iSV 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 As the Cardinal was regaining his carriage 
 on leaving Mrs. Giles' party, there was, 
 about the entrance of the house, the usual 
 gathering under such circumstances ; some 
 zealous linkboys marvellously familiar with 
 London life, and some midnight loungers, 
 who thus take their hmnble share of the 
 social excitement, and their happy chance 
 of becoming acquainted with some of the 
 notables of the wondrous world of which 
 they form the base. This little gathering, 
 ranged at the instant into stricter order by 
 the police to facilitate the passage of his 
 Eminence, prevented the progress of a pas- 
 senger, who exclaimed in an audible, but 
 not noisy, voice, as if he were ejaculating 
 to himself, ' A bas les pretres i ' 
 
 This exclamation, unintelligible to the
 
 88' LOTHAIK. 
 
 populace, was noticed only by tlie only 
 person who understood it. The Cardinal, 
 astonished at the unusual sound — for, hi- 
 therto, he had always found the outer 
 world of London civil, or at least indif- 
 ferent — threw his penetrating glance at the 
 passenger, and caught clearly the visage on 
 which the lamplight fully shone. It was a 
 square, sinewy face, closely shaven, with the 
 exception of a small but thick moustache, 
 brown as the well-cropped hair, and blend- 
 ing with the hazel eye ; a calm, but deter- 
 mined countenance ; clearly not that of an 
 Englishman, for he wore ear-rings. 
 
 The carriage drove off, and the passenger, 
 somewhat forcing his way through the 
 clustering group, continued his course until 
 he reached the cab-stand near the Marble 
 Arch, when he engaged a vehicle and 
 ordered to be driven to Leicester Square. 
 That quarter of the town exhibits an ani- 
 n^ated scene towards the witching hour; 
 many lights and much population, illu- 
 minated coffee-houses, the stir of a large
 
 LOTHAIE. ■ 89 
 
 theatre, bands of music in the open ah', 
 and other sounds, most of them gay, and 
 some festive. The stranger, whose com- 
 pact figure was shrouded by a long fur 
 cape, had not the appearance of being in- 
 fluenced by the temptation of amusement. 
 As he stopped in the square and looked 
 around him, the expression of his coun- 
 tenance was moody, perhaps even anxious. 
 He seemed to be making observations on 
 the locality, and, after a few minutes, 
 crossed the open space and turned up into 
 a small street which opened into the square. 
 In this street was a coffeehouse of some 
 pretension, connected indeed with an hotel, 
 which had been formed out of two houses, 
 and therefore possessed no inconsiderable 
 accommodation. 
 
 The coffeeroom was capacious and 
 adorned in a manner which intimated it 
 was not kept by an Englishman, or much 
 used by Englishmen. The walls were 
 painted in frescoed arabesques. There were 
 many guests, principally seated at small
 
 90 LOTHAIR. 
 
 tables of marble, and on benches and 
 chairs covered with a coarse, crimson 
 velvet. Some were sipping coffee, some 
 were drinking wine, others were smoking 
 or playing dominoes, or doing both ; while 
 many were engaged in reading the foreign 
 jom'nals which abounded. 
 
 An ever-vigilant waiter was at the side 
 of the stranger the instant he entered, and 
 wished to know his pleasure. The stranger 
 was examining with his keen eye every 
 individual in the room while this question 
 was asked and repeated. 
 
 ' What would I wish ? ' said the stranger, 
 having concluded his inspection, and as it 
 were summoning back his recollection. ' I 
 would wish to see, and at once, one Mr. 
 Perroni, who, I believe, lives here.' 
 
 ' Why, 'tis the master ! ' exclaimed the 
 waiter. 
 
 ' Well, then, go and tell the master that 
 I want him.' 
 
 ' But the master is much engaged,' said 
 the waiter; ' particularly.'
 
 LOTHAIE. 91 
 
 ' I dare say ; but you will go and tell 
 him that I particularly want to see him.' 
 
 The waiter, though prepared to be im- 
 pertinent to any one else, felt that one was 
 speaking to him ayIio must be obeyed, and 
 with a subdued, but hesitating, manner 
 said, ' There is a meeting to-night upstau-s, 
 where the master is secretary, and it is 
 difficult to see him ; but if 1 could see 
 him, what name am I to give ? ' 
 
 * You will go to him instantly,' said the 
 stranger, ' and you will tell him that he is 
 wanted by Captain Bruges.' 
 
 The waiter was not long absent, and 
 returning with an obsequious bow, he in- 
 vited the stranger to follow him to a pri- 
 vate room, where lie was alone only for a 
 few seconds, for the door opened and he 
 was joined by Perroni. 
 
 ' Ah ! my general,' exclaimed the master 
 of tlic coffeehouse, and he kissed the 
 stranger's hand. ' You received my tele- 
 gram ? '
 
 92 LOTHAIR. 
 
 ' I am here. Now wliat is vonr l^usi- 
 ness?' 
 
 ' There is business, and great business, 
 if you will do it; business for you.' 
 
 ' Well I am a soldier, and soldiering is 
 my trade, and I do not much care what 
 I do in that way, provided it is not against 
 the good cause. But I must tell you at 
 once, friend Perroni, I am not a man who 
 will take a leap in the dark. I must form 
 my own staff, and I must have my com- 
 missariat secure.' 
 
 ' My General, you will be master of your 
 own terms. The standing committee of 
 the Holy Alliance of Peoples are sitting 
 upstairs at this moment. They were un- 
 animous in sending for you. See them; 
 judge for yourself; and, rest assured, you 
 will be satisfied.' 
 
 ' I do not much like having to do with 
 committees,' said the General. ' However, 
 let it be as you like — I will see them.' 
 
 ' I had better just announce your arrival,' 
 said Perroni. ' And mil you not take some-
 
 LOTHAIU. 93 
 
 m 
 
 thing, my General, after your travel ; you 
 must be wearied.' 
 
 ' A glass of sugar and water. You know, 
 I am not easily tired. And, I agree with 
 you, it is better to come to business at 
 once: so prepare them.'
 
 94 LOTHAIR. 
 
 CHAPTER XL 
 
 The Standing Committee of the Holy 
 Alliance of Peoples all rose, although they 
 were extreme Republicans, when the 
 General entered. Such is the magical in- 
 fluence of a man of action over men of the 
 pen and the tongue. Had it been, instead 
 of a successful military leader, an orator 
 that had inspired Europe, or a journalist 
 who had established the rights of the 
 human race, the Standing Committee would 
 have only seen men of their own kidney, 
 who having been favoured with happier 
 opportunities than themselves, had reaped 
 a harvest, which, equally favoured, they 
 might here have garnered. 
 
 ' General,' said FeHx Drolin the presi- 
 dent, who was looked upon by the brother-
 
 LOTHAIR. 95 
 
 hood as a statesman, for he had been, in 
 his time, a member of a Provisional Go- 
 vernment, ' this seat is for you,' and he 
 pointed to one on his right hand. ' You 
 are ever welcome ; and I hope you bring 
 good tidings, and good fortune.' 
 
 ' I am glad to be among my friends, and 
 I may say,' looking around, ' my comrades. 
 I hope I may bring you better fortune than 
 my tidings.' 
 
 ' But now they have left Rome,' said the 
 President, 'every day we expect good news.' 
 
 ' Ay, ay ! he has left Rome, but he has 
 not left Rome with the door open. I hope 
 it is not on such gossip you have sent for 
 me. You have something on hand. AVhat 
 is it ? ' 
 
 ' You shall hear it from the fountain 
 head,' said the President, ' fresh from New 
 York,' and he pointed to an individual 
 seated in the centre of the table. 
 
 ' Ah ! Colonel Finucane,' said the 
 General, ' I have not forgotten James River. 
 You did that well. AVhat is the trick now ? '
 
 96 LOTHAIR. 
 
 Whereupon a tall, lean man, with a 
 decided brogue but speaking through his 
 nose, rose from his seat and informed the 
 General that the Irish people were organised 
 and ready to rise; that they had sent their 
 deputies to New York ; all they wanted 
 were arms and officers; that the American 
 brethren had agreed to supply them with 
 both and amply ; and that considerable 
 subscriptions were raising for other pur- 
 poses. What they now required was a 
 commander-in-chief equal to the occasion, 
 and in whom all would have confidence; 
 and therefore they had telegraphed for the 
 General.' 
 
 ' I doubt not our friends over the water 
 would send us plenty of rifles,' said the 
 General, ' if we could only manage to knd 
 them ; and, I think, I know men now in 
 the States from whom I could form a good 
 staff; but how about the people of Ireland ? 
 What evidence have we that they will rise, 
 if we land ? ' ,
 
 LOTHAIR. 97 
 
 ' The best,' said the President. ' We have 
 a Head-Centre here, Citizen Desmond, who 
 will give you the most recent and the 
 most authentic mtelhgence on that head.' 
 
 ' The whole country is organised,' said 
 the Head-Centre ; ' we could put 300,000 
 men in the field at any time in a fortnight. 
 The movement is not sectarian ; it per- 
 vades all classes and all creeds. All that 
 we want are officers and arms.' 
 
 ' Hem I ' said the General, ' And as to 
 your other supplies ? Any scheme of 
 commissariat ? ' 
 
 ' There will be no lack of means,' replied 
 the Head-Centre. ' There is no country 
 where so much money is hoarded as in 
 Ireland. But, depend upon it, so far as 
 the commissariat is concerned, the move- 
 ment will be self-supporting.' 
 
 ' "Well, we shall sec,' said the General; ' I 
 am sorry it is an Irish affair, tliough, to be 
 sure, what else could it be ? I am not fond 
 of Irish affairs : whatever may be said, and 
 however plausible tilings may look, in an 
 
 VOL. I. H
 
 '98 LOTHAIK. 
 
 Irish business there is always a priest at 
 the bottom of it. I hate priests. By-thet 
 bye, I was stopped on my way here by 
 a Cardinal getting into his carriage. I 
 thought I had burnt all those vehicles when 
 I was at Rome with Garibaldi in '48. A 
 Cardinal in his carriage ! I had no idea you 
 permitted that sort of cattle in London.' 
 
 ' London is a roost for every bird,' said 
 Felix Drolin. 
 
 ' Very few of the priests favour this 
 movement,' saicl Desmond. 
 
 ' Then you have a great power against 
 you,' said the General, ' in addition to 
 England.' 
 
 ' They are not exactly against ; the bulk 
 of them are too national for that ; but 
 Rome does not sanction — you under- 
 stand ? ' 
 
 • ' I understand enough,' said the General, 
 ' to see that we must not act with pre- 
 cipitation. An Irish business is a thing ' 
 to be turned over several times.' 
 
 ' But yet,' said a Pole, ' what hope for
 
 LOTIIAlll. 99 
 
 liumaiiity except fi'om the rising of an 
 oppresf-ecl nationality. We have offered 
 ourselves on the altar, and in vain ! Greece 
 is too sniaU, and llouniania — though both 
 of them are readv to do anvthing : but 
 they would l^c the mere tools of Russia. 
 Ireland alone remains, and she is at our 
 feet.' 
 
 ' The peoples will never succeed till 
 they have a fleet,' said a German. ' Then 
 you could land as many rifles as you like, 
 or anything else. To have a fleet we rose 
 against Denmark in my countr}', but we 
 have been betrayed. Nevertheless, Ger- 
 many will yet be miitecl, and she can only 
 be united as a Eepublic. Then she will 
 be the mistress of the seas.' 
 
 ' Tliat is the mission of Italv,' said 
 Perroni. ' Italy — with the traditions of 
 Genoa, Venice, Pisa, — Italy is plainly 
 indicated as the future mistress of the 
 seas.' 
 
 ' I beg your pardon,' said the German; 
 'the future mistress of the seas is the land 
 
 31 2
 
 100 LOTHAIR. 
 
 of tlie Viking. It is the forests of the 
 Baltic that will build the fleet of the 
 future. You have no timber in Italy,' 
 
 ' Timber is no longer wanted,' said 
 Perroni. ' Kor do I know of Avhat will be 
 formed the fleets of the future. But the 
 sovereignty of the seas depends upon 
 seamen, and the nautical genius of the 
 Italians ' 
 
 ' Comrades,' said the General, ' we have 
 discussed to-night a great subject. For 
 my part I have travelled rather l^riskly as 
 you wished it. I should like to sleep on 
 this affair.' 
 
 ' 'Tis most reasonable,' said the President. 
 ' Our refreshment at council is very spare,' 
 he continued, and he pointed to a vase of 
 water and some glasses ranged round it in 
 the middle of the table; ' but we always 
 drink one toast, General, before Ave separate. 
 It is to one whom you love, and whom 
 you have served well. Fill glasses, breth- 
 ren, and now ' To Mary- Anne.' 
 
 If they had been inspired by the grape
 
 LOTHAIR. 101 
 
 nothing could be more animated and even 
 excited than all their countenances sud- 
 denly became. The cheer might have been 
 heard in the cofFeeroom, as they expressed, 
 in the phrases of many languages, the 
 never-failino' and never-fla":o;in(T enthusiasm 
 
 O (DO O 
 
 invoked by the toast of their mistress.
 
 102 LOTIIAIR. 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 'Did you read that paragraph, mamma?' 
 enqiured Lady Corisande of the Duchess, 
 in a tone of some seriousness. 
 
 ' I did; 
 
 ' And what did you think of it ? ' 
 
 ' It tilled me with so much amazement 
 that I have hardly begun to think.' 
 
 ' And Bertram never gave a hint of such 
 thino's ! ' 
 
 ' Let us believe they are quite untrue.' 
 
 ' I hope Bertram is in no danger,' said 
 his sister, 
 
 ' Heaven forbid ! ' exclaimed the mother, 
 with unaffected alarm. 
 
 ' I know not how it is,' said Lady Cori- 
 sande, 'but I frequently feel that some 
 great woe is hanging over our country.'
 
 ; LOTH AIR. 103 
 
 ' You must dismiss such thoughts, my 
 child; they are fonciful.' 
 
 ' But it will come, and when least ex- 
 pected — frequently in church, l)ut also in 
 the sunshine : and when I am ridino- too, 
 when, once, everything seemed gay. But 
 now I often think of strife, and struo'2"le, 
 and war — civil war : the stir of our caval- 
 cade seems like the tramp of cavalry.' 
 
 ' You indulge your miagination too much, 
 dear Corisande. When you return to Lon- 
 don, and enter the world, these anxious 
 tlioughts will fly.' 
 
 ' Is it imagination? I should rather have 
 doubted my behig of an imaginative nature. 
 It seems to me that I am rather literal. 
 But I cannot help hearhig things, and 
 reading things, and observing things, and 
 they fill me with disquietude. AH seems 
 doubt and change, when it would appear 
 that we require both faith and firmness.' 
 
 ' The Duke is not alarmed about afiairs,' 
 said his wife. 
 
 ' And if all did tlieir duty like papa,
 
 104 LOTHAIIl. 
 
 there might be less, or no cause,' said Cori- 
 sande. ' But when I hear of young nobles, 
 the natural leaders of the land, going over 
 to the Roman Catholic Church, I confess 
 I lose heart and patience. It seems so un- 
 patriotic, so effeminate.' 
 
 ' It may not be true,' said the Duchess. 
 
 ' It may not be true of him, but it is true 
 of others,' said Lady Corisande. ' And 
 why should he escape? He is very young, 
 rather friendless, and surrounded by wily 
 })ersons. I am disappointed about Bertram 
 too. He ought to have prevented this, if 
 it be true. Bertram seemed to me to have 
 such excellent principles, and so completely 
 to feel that he was born to maintain the 
 great country which his ancestors had 
 created, that I indulged in dreams. I sup- 
 pose you are right, mamma; I supj^ose I 
 am imaginative without knowing it; but 
 I have always thought, and hoped, that 
 wdien the troubles came the country might, 
 perhaps, rally round Bertram.' 
 
 ' I wish to see Bertram in Parliament,'
 
 LOTHAIR. 105 
 
 said the Duchess. ' That will be the best, 
 thmg for him. The Duke has some plans.' 
 
 This conversation had. been occasioned 
 by a paragraph in the ' Morning Post,' cir- 
 culating a rumour that a young noble, 
 obviously Lothair, on the impending com- 
 pletion of his minority, was about to enter 
 the Roman Church. The Duchess and her 
 daughter were sitting in a chamber of their 
 northern castle, and .speculating on their 
 return to London, which was to take place 
 after the Easter which had just arrived. It 
 v/as an important social season for Cori- 
 sande, for she was to be formallv introduced 
 into the great world, and to be presented 
 at Court. 
 
 In tlie meanwliile, Avas there any truth 
 in the report about Lothair? 
 
 After their meeting at their lawyer's, a 
 certain intimacy had occurred between the 
 Cardinal and his w\ard. They met again 
 immediately and frequently, and their mu- 
 tual feelings were cordial. Tlie maimers of 
 his Eminence were refined and affectionate;
 
 106 LOTHAIR. 
 
 his conversational powers were distin- 
 guished; there was not a subject on which 
 his mind did not teem with interesting 
 suggestions; his easy knowledge seemed 
 always ready and always full ; and Avhether 
 it were art, or letters, or manners, or even- 
 political affairs, Lothair seemed to listen to 
 one of the wisest, most enlightened, and 
 most agreeable of men. There was only 
 one subject on which his Eminence seemed 
 scrupulous never to touch, and that was 
 religion ; or so indirectly, that it was only 
 when alone that Lothair frequently found 
 himself musing over the happy influence 
 on the arts, and morals, and happiness of 
 mankind — of the Church. 
 
 •In due time, not too soon, but when he 
 was attuned to the initiation, the Cardinal 
 presented Lothair to Lady St. Jerome. The 
 impassioned eloquence of that lady ger- 
 minated the seed which the Cardinal had 
 seemed so carelessly to scatter. She was a 
 woman to inspire crusaders. Xot that she 
 ever condescended to vindicate her own
 
 ''. LOTHAIR. 107 
 
 particular faith, or spoke as if she were 
 conscious that Lothair did not possess it. 
 Assumino; that religion was true, for other- 
 wise man would be in a more degraded 
 position than the beasts of the field, which 
 are not aware of their own wretchedness, 
 then religion should be the principal occu- 
 pation of man, to which all other pursuits 
 should be subservient. The doom of eter- 
 nity, and the fortunes of life, cannot be 
 ])laced in competition. Our days should be 
 pure, and holy, and heroic — full of noble 
 thou2"hts and solemn sacrifice. Providence, 
 in its wisdom, had decreed that the world 
 sliould be divided between the faithful and 
 atheists ; the latter even seemed to pre- 
 dominate. There was no doubt that, if 
 they prevailed, all that cle^'ated man would 
 become extinct. It was a great trial ; but 
 liappy was the man who was privileged 
 even to endure the awful test. It might 
 develope the highest qualities and the most 
 sublime conduct. If he were equal to the 
 occasion, and could control and even sub-
 
 108 LOTHAIR. 
 
 due these sons of Corah, he would rank 
 with Michael the Archangel. 
 
 This was the text on which frequent dis- 
 courses were delivered to Lothair, and to 
 which he listened at hrst ^^-ith eager, and 
 soon with enraptured attention. The 
 priestess was worthy of the shrme. Few 
 persons were ever gifted with more natural 
 eloquence ; a command of language, choice 
 without being pedantic ; beautiful hands 
 that fluttered with irresistible grace; flash- 
 ing eyes and a voice of melody. 
 
 Lothair bea'an to examine himself, and to 
 ascertain whether he possessed the neces- 
 sary qualities, and was capable of sublime 
 conduct. His natural modesty and his 
 strong religious feeling struggled together. 
 He feared he was not an archangel, and yet 
 he longed to struggle with the powers of 
 darkness. 
 
 One day he ventured to express to Miss 
 Arundel a somewhat hopeful view of the 
 future, but Miss Arundel shook her head. 
 
 ' I do not ao-ree with mv aunt, at least as
 
 ; LOTHAIE. 109 
 
 regards this country,' said Miss Arundel ; 
 ' I think our sins are too great. We left 
 His church, and God is now leaving us.' 
 
 Lothair looked grave, but Avas silent. 
 
 Weeks had passed since his introduction 
 to the family of Lord St. Jerome, and it was 
 remarkable how large a portion of his sub- 
 sequent time had passed under tliat roof. 
 At first there were few persons in town, 
 and really of these Lothair knew none : and 
 then the house in St. James's Square was 
 not only an interesting, but it was an agree- 
 able, house. All Lady St. Jerome's family 
 connections were persons of much foshion, 
 so there was more variety and entertain- 
 ment than sometimes are to be found under 
 a Roman Catholic roof. Lady St. Jerome 
 was at home every evening before Easter. 
 Few dames can venture successfully on so 
 decided a step; but her saloons were always 
 attended, and by ' nice people.' Occasionally 
 the Cardinal stepped in, and, to a certain 
 degree, the saloon was the rendezvous of 
 the Catholic party ; but it was also generally
 
 110 LOTHAIR. 
 
 social and distinguished. Many bright 
 dames and damsels, and many influential 
 men, were there, who little deemed tliat 
 deep and daring thoughts were there 
 masked by many a gracious countenance. 
 The social atmosphere infinitely pleased 
 Lothair. The mixture of solemn duty 
 and graceful diversion, high purposes and 
 charming manners, seemed to realise some 
 youthful dreams of elegant existence. All 
 too was enhanced by the historic character 
 of the roof and bv the recollection that 
 their mutual ancestors, as Clare Arundel 
 more than once intimated to him, had 
 created England. Having had so many 
 pleasant dinners in St. James's Square, and 
 spent there so many evening hours, it was 
 not wonderful that Lothair had accepted 
 an invitation from Lord St Jerome to pass 
 Easter at his countrv seat.
 
 LOTHAIK- 111 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 Vauxe, the seat of the St. Jeromes, avus 
 the finest specimen of the old English resi- 
 dence extant. It was the perfection of the 
 style, which had gradually arisen after the 
 wars of the Roses had alike destroyed all 
 the castles and the purpose of those stern 
 erections. People said Vauxe looked like a 
 college : the truth is, colleges looked like 
 Vauxe, for when those fair and civil build- 
 ings rose, the wise and liberal spirits who 
 endowed them, intended that thev should 
 resemble as much as possible the residence 
 of a great noble. 
 
 There were two quadrangles at Vauxe 
 of grey stone ; the outer one of larger 
 dimensions and much covered with i\y ; 
 the inner one not so extensive, but more 
 ornate, with a loftv tower, a linll, and a
 
 112 LOTHAIR. 
 
 cliapel. The house was full of galleries, 
 and they were full of portraits. Indeed 
 there was scarcely a chamber in this vast 
 edifice of which the walls were not breath- 
 ing with English liistory in this interesting 
 form. Sometimes more ideal art asserted 
 a triumphant claim — transcendental Holy 
 Families, seraphic saints, and gorgeous 
 scenes by Tintoret and Paul of Yerona. 
 
 The furniture of the house seemed never 
 to have been changed. It was very old, 
 somewhat scanty, but very rich — tapestry 
 and velvet hangings, marvellous cabinets, 
 and crystal girandoles. Here and there a 
 group of ancient plate ; ewers and flagons 
 and tall saltcellars, a foot high and richly 
 chiselled ; sometimes a state bed shadowed 
 with a huge pomp of stiff brocade and 
 borne by silver poles. 
 
 Vauxe stood in a large park, studded 
 with stately trees ; here and there an avenue 
 of Spanish chesnuts or a grove of oaks : 
 sometunes a gorsy dell and sometimes a 
 great spread of antlered fern, taller than 
 the tallest man.
 
 LOTHAIR. 113 
 
 It was only twenty miles from town, and 
 Lord St. Jerome drove Lothair down ; the 
 last ten miles through a pretty land, which, 
 at the right season, would have been bright 
 with orchards, oak woods, and hop gardens. 
 Lord St. Jerome loved horses and was an 
 eminent whip. He had driven four-in-hand 
 when a boy, and he went on driving four- 
 in-hand; not because it was the fashion, 
 but because he loved it. Towards the close 
 of Lent, Lady St. Jerome and Clare Arundel 
 had been at a convent in retreat, but they 
 always passed Holy Week at home, and they 
 were to welcome Lord St. Jerome a^'ain at 
 Vauxe. 
 
 The day was bright, the mode of move- 
 ment exhilarating, all the anticipated inci- 
 dents delightful, and Lothair felt the happi- 
 ness of health and youth. 
 
 ' There is Vauxe,' said Lord St. Jerome 
 in a tone of proud humility, as a turn in 
 the road first displayed the stately i)ile. 
 
 'How beautiful!' said Lothair; 'Ah! 
 our ancestors understood the country.' 
 
 VOL. I. I
 
 114 LOTHAIR. 
 
 ' I used to think when I was a boy,' said 
 Lord St. Jerome, 'that I lived in the 
 prettiest village in the world, but these 
 railroads have so changed everything, that 
 Vauxe seems to me now only a second town 
 house.' 
 
 The ladies were in a garden, where they 
 were consulting with the gardener and Father 
 Coleman about the shape of some new beds, 
 for the critical hour of filling them was 
 approaching. The gardener, like aU head- 
 gardeners, was opiniated. Living always 
 at Vauxe, he had come to believe that the 
 gardens belonged to him, and that the 
 family were only occasional visitors ; and 
 he treated them accordingly. The lively 
 and impetuous Lady St. Jerome had a 
 thousand bright fancies, but her morose 
 attendant never indulged them. She used 
 to deplore his tyranny with piteous playful- 
 ness. ' I suppose,' she would say, ' it is 
 useless to resist, for I observe 'tis the same 
 everywhere. Lady Roehampton says she 
 never has her way with her gardens. It is
 
 LOTH AIR. 115 
 
 110 use speaking to Lord St. Jerome, for 
 though he 'is afraid of nothing else, I am 
 sure he is afraid of Hawkins.' 
 
 The only way that Lady St. Jerome 
 could manage Hawkins was through Father 
 Coleman. Father Coleman, who kneAv every- 
 thing, knew a great deal aljout gardens ; 
 from the days of Le Notre to those of the 
 fine gentlemen who now travel about, and 
 when diseno'a2:ed deisin to oive us ad^-ice. 
 
 Father Coleman had only just entered 
 middle-age, was imperturbable and mild in 
 his manner. He passed his life very much 
 at Vauxe, and imparted a great deal of 
 knowledge to Mr. Hawkins, without appa- 
 rently being conscious of so doing. At the 
 bottom of his mind, Mr. Hawknis felt 
 assured that he had gained several disthi- 
 guishcd prizes, mainly through the hints 
 and guidance of Father Coleman; and thus, 
 though on the surface a little surly, he was 
 ruled 1)y Father Coleman, under the com- 
 bined influence of .<eli-iiiterest and superior 
 knowledge. 
 
 1 2
 
 116 LOTHAIE. 
 
 ' You find us in a garden without flowers,' 
 said Lady St. Jerome; 'but the siui, I think, 
 alway loves these golden yews.' 
 
 ' These are for you, dear uncle,' said 
 Clare Arundel, as she gave him a rich 
 cluster of violets. 'Just now the woods 
 are more fragrant than the gardens, and 
 these are the produce of our morning walk. 
 I could have brought you some primroses, 
 but I do not like to mix violets with any- 
 thing.' 
 
 ' They say primroses make a capital salad,' 
 said Lord St. Jerome. 
 
 ' Barbarian ! ' exclaimed Lady St. Jerome. 
 'I see you want luncheon; it must be ready;' 
 and she took Lothair's arm. ' I will show 
 you a portrait of one of your ancestors,' she 
 said; ' he married an Arundel.'
 
 LOTHAIR. 117 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 ' Xow, you know,' said Lady St. Jerome to 
 Lothair in a hushed voice, as they sate to- 
 gether in the evening, ' you are to be quite 
 free here ; to do exactly what you hlvC, and 
 we shall follow our ways. If you like to 
 have a clergyman of your own Church visit 
 you while you are with us, pray say so 
 \^dthout the slightest scruple. AVe have an 
 excellent gentleman in this parish ; he often 
 dines here ; and I am sure he would be 
 most happy to attend you. I know that 
 Holy Week is not wholly disregarded by 
 some of the Ano-licans.' 
 
 ' It is the anniversary of the greatest 
 event of time,' said Lothair; 'and I should 
 be sorry if any of my Church did not en- 
 tirely regard it, though they may show 
 that regard in a Avay different from your 
 
 own.'
 
 118 LOTH AIR. 
 
 ' Yes, yes,' murmured Lady St. Jerome ; 
 ' there should be no difference between our 
 Churches, if things were only properly 
 understood. I would accept all who really 
 bow to the name of Christ ; they will come 
 to the Church at last; they must. It is the 
 Atheists alone, I fear, Avho are now carry- 
 ing everything before them, and against 
 whom there is no comfort, except the rock 
 of St. Peter.' 
 
 Miss Arundel crossed the room, whispered 
 something to her aunt, and touched her 
 forehead ^Yith her hps, and then left the 
 apartment. 
 
 ' We must soon separate, I fear,' said 
 Lady St. Jerome ; ' we have an office to- 
 night of great moment ; the Tenebrai 
 commence to-night. You have, I think, 
 nothing like it ; but you have services 
 throughout this week.' 
 
 ' I am sorry to say I have not attended 
 them,' said Lothair. ' I did at Oxford ; but 
 I don't know how it is, but in London there 
 seems no reli^'ion. And vet, as vou some-
 
 LOTHAIR. 119 
 
 times «ay, religion is the great business of 
 life; I sometimes begin to think the only 
 business.' 
 
 ' Yes, yes,' said Lady St. Jerome, with 
 much interest, ' if you l^elieve that you are 
 safe. I wish you had " a clero-yman near 
 you while you are here. See Mr. Claugh- 
 ton if you like; I would; and if you do not, 
 there is Father Coleman. I cannot convey 
 to you how satisfactory conversation is with 
 him on religious matters. He is the holiest 
 of men, and yet he is a man of the world; 
 he Avill not invite you into any controversies. 
 He mil speak A\^th you only on points on 
 which we a^Tee. You know there are 
 many points on which we agree?' 
 
 ' Happily,' said Ldthair. ' And now about 
 the office to-night : tell me about these 
 Tenebra3. Is there anything in the Tene- 
 bra3 why I ought not to l)e present? ' 
 
 ' No ' reason whatever ; not a dogma 
 which you do nr)t 1)f'lic'vo; not a ceremony 
 of which you cannot npi)rove. There are 
 psalms, at the end of each of which a liirht
 
 120 LOTHAIR. 
 
 on the altar is extiiii^uished. There is the 
 Song of Moses, the Canticle of Zachary, 
 the Miserere — which is the 50th Psalm you 
 read and chant regularly in your church — 
 the Lord's Prayer in silence ; and then all 
 is darkness and distress — what the Church 
 was when our Lord suffered, what the whole 
 world is now except His Church.' 
 
 ' If you will permit me,' said Lothair, ' I 
 will accompany you to the Tenebrae.' 
 
 Altliough the chapel at Yauxe was, of 
 course, a private chapel, it was open to the 
 surrounding public, who eagerly availed 
 themselves of a permission alike politic and 
 gracious. 
 
 Nor was that remarkable. Manifold art 
 had combined to create this exquisite temple, 
 and to guide all its ministrations. But to- 
 nin-ht it Avas not the radiant altar and the 
 splendour of stately priests, the processions 
 and the incense, the divine choir and the 
 celestial harmonies resounding and linger- 
 ing in arched roofs, that attracted many a 
 neighbwu*. The altar was desolate, the
 
 LOTHAIR. 121 
 
 choir was dumb ; and while the services 
 proceeded in hushed tones of subdued sor- 
 row, and sometimes even of suppressed 
 anguish, gradually, with each psalm and 
 canticle, a light of the altar was extin- 
 guished, till at length the Miserere was 
 muttered, and all became darkness. A 
 sound as of a distant and rising wind was 
 heard, and a crash, as it were the fall of trees 
 in a storm. The earth is covered with dark- 
 ness, and the vail of the temple is rent. 
 But just at this moment of extreme woe, 
 when all human voices are silent, and when 
 it is forl)idden even to breathe 'Amen' — 
 when everything is symbolical of the con- 
 fusion and despair of the Church at the 
 loss of her expiring Lord — a priest brings 
 forth a concealed light of silvery flame 
 from a corner of the altar. This is the 
 light of the world, and aimounces the resur- 
 rection, and then all rise up and depart in 
 silence. 
 
 As Lothair rose, Miss Arundel passed 
 him with streaming eyes.
 
 122 LOTIIAIR. 
 
 ' There is iiotliing in this holy office,' said 
 Father Coleman to Lothair, ' to which every 
 real Christian niiij-ht not o-ive his assent.' 
 
 ' Nothino;,' said Lotliair, with great de- 
 cision.
 
 LOTH A II J. 123 
 
 CHAPTEPt XY. 
 
 There were Tenebrae on the following days, 
 Maundy Thursday and Good Friday; and 
 Lothair was present on both occasions. 
 
 ' There is also a great office on Friday,' 
 said Father Coleman to Lothair, 'which 
 perhaps you would not like to attend — the 
 mass of the Pre-sanctiiied. We bring back 
 the Blessed Sacrament to the desolate altar, 
 and imveil the Cross. It is one of our 
 highest ceremonies, the adoration of the 
 Cross, which the Protestants persist hi 
 calling idolatry, though I presume they 
 will give us leave to know the meanini'- of 
 our (jwn words and actions, and hope they 
 will believe us when we tell them tliat our 
 genuflexions and kissing of the Cross are no 
 more tlian exterior ex[)rcssions of that love 
 whicli we bear in our liearts to Jesus crn-
 
 J 24 LOTIIATR. 
 
 cified; and that the words adoration and 
 adore, as applied to the Cross, only signify 
 that respect and veneration due to things 
 immediately relating to God and His ser- 
 vice.' 
 
 'I see no idolatry in it,' said Lothair, 
 musingly. 
 
 ' No impartial person could,' rejoined 
 Father Coleman; 'but unfortunately all 
 these prejudices were imbibed when the 
 world was not so well-informed as at pre- 
 sent. A ffood deal of mischief has been 
 done, too, by the Protestant versions of the 
 Holy Scriptures; made in a hurry, and by 
 men imperfectly acquainted with the Eastern 
 tongues, and quite ignorant of Eastern man- 
 ners. All the accumulated research and 
 investigation of modern times have only 
 illustrated and justified the offices of the 
 Church.' 
 
 ' That is very interesting,' said Lothair. 
 
 ' Now, this question of idolatry,' said 
 Father Coleman, 'that is a fertile subject 
 of misconception. The house of Israel was
 
 LOTH AIR. 125 
 
 raised up to destroy idolatry, l^ecause idol- 
 atry then meant dark images of Moloch 
 openmg their arms by machinery, and 
 flinging the beauteous firstborn of the land 
 into their huge forms, which were furnaces 
 of fire ; or Ashtaroth, throned in moonlit 
 groves, and surrounded by orgies of ineffable 
 demoralisation. It required the declared 
 will of God to redeem man from such fatal 
 iniquity, which would have sapped the 
 human race. But to confound such deeds 
 with the commemoration of God's saints, 
 who are only pictured because their lives 
 are perpetual incentives to purity and holi- 
 ness, and to declare that the Queen of Hea- 
 ven and the Mother of God should be to 
 human feeling only as a sister of charity or 
 a gleaner in the fields, is to abuse reason 
 and to outrage the heart.' 
 
 ' We live in dark times,' said Lothair, 
 with an air of distress. 
 
 ' Not darker than before the deUigc,' ex- 
 claimed Father Coleman; 'not darker than 
 before the Nativity; not darker even than
 
 12G LOTH AIR. 
 
 when the samts became martyrs. There is 
 a Pharos m the world, and its light will 
 never be extinguished, however black the 
 clouds and wild the waves. Man is on his 
 trial now, not the Church; but in the ser- 
 vice of the Church his highest energies 
 may be developed, and his noblest qualities 
 proved.' 
 
 Lothair seemed plunged in thought, and 
 Father Coleman glided away as Lady St. 
 Jerome entered the gallery, shawled and 
 bonneted, accompanied by another priest, 
 Monsignore Catesby. 
 
 Catesby was a youthful member of an 
 ancient English liouse, which for many 
 generations had without a murmur, rather 
 in a spirit of triumph, made every worldly 
 sacrifice for the Church and Court of Iiome. 
 For that cause they had forfeited their 
 lives, broad estates, and all the honours of 
 a lofty station in their own land. Reginald 
 Catesby with considerable abilities, trained 
 with consummate skill, inherited their de- 
 termined will, and the traditionary beauty
 
 LOTHAIR. 127 
 
 of their form and countenance. His man- 
 ners were winnino- and he was as well 
 informed in the ways of the world as he 
 was in the works of the great casuists. 
 
 ' My Lord has ordered the char-a-banc, 
 and is going to drive us all to Chart, where 
 we will lunch,' said Lady St. Jerome; ' 'tis 
 a curious place, and was planted, only 
 seventy years ago, by my Lord's grand- 
 father, entirely with spruce firs, but with 
 so much care and skill, giving each plant 
 and tree ample distance, that they have 
 risen to the noblest proportions, with all 
 their green Ijranches far-spreading on the 
 ground like huo;e fiuis.' 
 
 It was only a drive of three or four 
 miles entirely in the park. This was u dis- 
 trict that had been added to the ancient 
 enclosure — a striking scene. It was u i'orest 
 of lirs, Ijut quite unlike such as might be 
 met Avitli ill the north of Eurojje or of 
 America. Every tree was ])crfcct — liuge 
 and complete, and full of massy grace. 
 Nothing else was permitted to grow there
 
 128 LOTHAIli. 
 
 except juniper, of which there were abound- 
 ing and wondrous groups, green and spiral; 
 the whole contrasting with the tall brown 
 fern of which there were quantities about 
 cut for the deer. 
 
 The turf was dry and mossy, and the air 
 pleasant. It was a balmy day. They sate 
 down by the great trees, the servants 
 opened the luncheon baskets, which were a 
 present from Balmoral. Lady St. Jerome 
 was seldom seen to greater advantage than 
 distributing her viands under such circum- 
 stances. Never was such gay and graceful 
 hospitality. Lothair was quite fascinated 
 as she playfully thrust a paper of lobster- 
 sandwiches into his hand, and enjoined 
 Monsignore Catesby to fill his tumbler 
 with Chablis. 
 
 ' I wish Father Coleman were here,' said 
 Lothair to Miss Arundel. 
 
 ' Why ? ' said Miss Arundel. 
 
 ' Because we were in the midst of a very 
 interesting conversation on idolatry and on 
 worship in groves, when Lady St. Jerome
 
 LOTHAIR. 129 
 
 summoned us to our drive. Tins seems a 
 grove where one might worship.' 
 
 ' Father Coleman ought to be at Eome,' 
 said Miss Arundel. ' He was to have 
 passed Holy Week there. I know not why 
 he changed his plans.' 
 
 ' Are you angry with him for it ? ' 
 
 ' No, not angry, but surprised ; surprised 
 that anyone might be at Rome, and yet be 
 absent from it.' 
 
 ' You like Eome ? ' 
 
 ' I have never been there. It is the 
 wish of my life.' 
 
 ' May I say to you what you said to me 
 just now — why ? ' 
 
 ' Naturally, because I woidd wish to 
 witness the ceremonies of the Church in 
 their most perfect form.' 
 
 ' But they are fulfilled in this country, 
 I have heard, with much splendour and 
 precision.' 
 
 Miss Arundel shook her head. 
 
 ' Oh ! no,' she said ; ' in this country we 
 are only just emerging from the catacombs. 
 
 VOL. T. K
 
 130 LOTH AIR. 
 
 If the ceremonies of the Church -were ade- 
 quately fulfilled m England, we should hear 
 very little of English infidelity.' 
 
 ' That is saying a great deal,' observed 
 Lothair enquiringly. 
 
 ' Had I that command of wealth of which 
 we hear so much in the present day, and 
 with which the possessors seem to know so 
 little what to do, I would purchase some of 
 those squalid streets in Westminster, which 
 are the shame of the metropolis, and clear 
 a great space and build a real cathedral, 
 where the worship of heaven should be 
 perpetually conducted in the full spirit of 
 the ordinances of tiie Church. I believe, 
 were this done, even this country might be 
 saved.'
 
 LOTIIAIR. 131 
 
 CHAPTER XVL 
 
 LoTiiAiR began to meditate on two great 
 ideas — the reconciliation of Cliristendom 
 and the influence of architecture on religion. 
 If the clifFerences between the Roman and 
 Anglican Churches, and between the Papacy 
 and Protestantism generally arose, as Father 
 Coleman assured him, and seemed to prove, 
 in mere misconception, reconciliation, though 
 difficult, did not seem impossible, and ap- 
 peared to be one of the most efficient modes 
 of defeating the Atheists. It was a result 
 which, of course, mainly depended on the 
 authority of Reason ; but the power of the 
 imagination might also be enlisted in the 
 good cause through the influence of the fine 
 arts, of which the great mission is to excite, 
 and at the same time elevate, the feelings of 
 the human family. Lothair found himself 
 
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 132 LOTHAIK. 
 
 frequently in a reverie over Miss Arundel's 
 ideal fane ; and feeling that lie had the power 
 of buying up a district in forlorn West- 
 minster, and raising there a temple to the 
 living God, which might influence the fu- 
 ture welfare of millions, and even effect 
 the salvation of his country, he began to 
 ask himself, whether he could incur the 
 responsibility of shrinking from the fulfil- 
 ment of this great duty ? 
 
 Lothair could not have a better adviser 
 on the subject of the influence of architec- 
 ture on religion than Monsignore Catesby. 
 Monsignore Catesby had been a pupil of 
 Pusin ; his knowled2:e of ecclesiastical 
 architecture was only equalled by his ex- 
 quisite taste. To hear him expound the 
 mysteries of symbolical art, and expatiate 
 on the hidden revelations of its beauteous 
 forms, reached even to ecstasy, Lothair 
 hung upon his accents like a neophyte. 
 Conferences with Father Coleman on those 
 points of faith on which they did not difl*er, 
 followed up by desultory remarks on those
 
 LOTH AIR. 133 
 
 jDoints of foith on which the}" ought not to 
 diiFer — critical discussions with Monsignore 
 Cateshy on cathedrals, their forms, their 
 purposes, and the instances in several 
 countries in which those forms were most 
 perfect and those purposes best secured — 
 occupied a good deal of time ; and yet these 
 engaging pm'suits were secondary in real 
 emotion to his frequent conversations with 
 Miss Arundel, in whose society every day 
 he took a strange and deeper interest. 
 
 She did not extend to him that ready 
 sympathy which was supplied by the two 
 priests. On the contrary, when he was apt 
 to indulge in those speculations which they 
 always encouraged, and rewarded l)y adroit 
 applause, she was often silent, throwing 
 on him only the scrutiny of those violet 
 eyes, whose glance was rather fascinating 
 than apt to captivate. And yet he was 
 irresistibly drawn to her, and once recal- 
 ling the ]Kjrtrait in the gallery, he ventured 
 to murmur that they were Idnsfolk. 
 
 'Oh! I liavc no kiii, no country,' said
 
 1B4 LOTIIAIR. 
 
 Miss Arunclel. ' These arc not times for 
 kin and country. I have given up all these 
 things for my Master ! ' 
 
 'But are our times so trying as that?' 
 enquired Lothair. 
 
 ' They are times for new crusades,' said 
 Miss Arundel, with energy, ' though it may 
 he of a different character from the old. If 
 I were a man I would draw my sword for 
 Christ. There are as great deeds to he 
 done as the siege of Ascalon, or even as the 
 freeing of the Holy Sepulchre.' 
 
 In the midst of a profound discussion 
 with Father Coleman on Mariolatry, Lothair 
 wrapt in reverie, suddenly introduced the 
 subject of Miss Arundel. 'I wonder what 
 will be her lot,' he exclaimed. 
 
 ' It seems to me to be settled,' said Father 
 Coleman. ' She will be the bride of the 
 Church.' 
 
 ' Indeed !' and he started, and even changed 
 colour. 
 
 ' She deems it her vocation,' gaid Father 
 Coleman .
 
 LOTH AIR. 135 
 
 ' And yet, with such gifts, to be immured 
 in a convent,' said Lothair. 
 
 ' That would not necessarily follow,' re- 
 plied Father Coleman. ' Miss Arundel may 
 occupy a position in which she may exercise 
 much influence for the great cause which 
 absorbs her being.' 
 
 ' There is a divine energy about her,' said 
 Lothair, almost speaking to himself. 'It 
 could not liave been given for little ends.' 
 
 ' If Miss Arundel could meet with a spirit 
 as exalted and as energetic as her own,' 
 said Father Coleman, ' her fate mi<xht be 
 different. She has no thouo'hts which are 
 not great, and no purposes which are not 
 sublime. But for the companion of her life 
 she would require no less than a Godfrey 
 de Bouillon.' 
 
 Lothair began to find the time pass very 
 rapidly at Yauxe. Easter week had nearly 
 vanished; Yauxe had l)ecn gay during the 
 last few days. Every day some visitors 
 came down from London; sometimes they 
 returned in tlio evening; sometimes they
 
 136 LOTIIAIK. 
 
 passed the night at Vauxe and returned to 
 town in the morning with large bouquets. 
 Lothair felt it was time for him to interfere, 
 and he broke his intention to Lady St. 
 Jerome; but Lady St. Jerome would not 
 hear of it. So he muttered somethinii; about 
 business. 
 
 'Exactly,' she said; ' everybody has busi- 
 ness, and I dare say you have a great deal. 
 But Vauxe is exactly the place for persons 
 who have business. You go up to town 
 by an early train, and then you return ex- 
 actly in time for dinner, and bring us all 
 the ncAVS from the Clubs.' 
 
 Lothair was beginning to say something, 
 but Lady St. Jerome, who, when necessary, 
 had the rare art of not listening without 
 offending the speaker, told him that they 
 did not intend themselves to return to toAvn 
 for a week or so, and that she knew Lord 
 St. Jerome would be greatly annoyed if 
 Lothair did not remain. 
 
 Lothair remained; and he went up to 
 town one or two mornings to transact busi-
 
 LOTHAIR. 137 
 
 ness; that is to say, to see a celebrated 
 architect, and to order plans for a cathedral, 
 in which all the purposes of those sublime 
 and exquisite structures were to be realised. 
 Tlie drawino-s A^-ould take a considerable 
 time to prepare, and these must be deeply 
 considered. So Lothair became quite domi- 
 ciUated at Vauxe : he went up to town in 
 the morning and returned, as it were, to 
 his home ; everybody delighted to welcome 
 him, and yet he seemed not expected. His 
 rooms were called after his name; and the 
 household treated him as one of the family.
 
 138 LOTH AIR. 
 
 CHAPTER XYIL 
 
 A FEW days before Lothair's visit was to 
 terminate, the Cardinal and Monsiimore 
 Berwick arrived at Yauxe. His Eminence 
 was received with much ceremony ; the 
 marshalled household, ranged in lines, fell 
 on their knees at his approach, and Lady 
 St. Jerome, Miss Arundel, and some other 
 ladies, scarcely less choice and fair, with 
 the lowest obeisance, touched, with their 
 honoured lips, his princely hand. 
 
 The Monsignore had made another visit 
 to Paris on his intended return to Rome, 
 but in consequence of some secret intelli- 
 gence wliich he had acquired in the French 
 capital, had thought fit to return to Eng- 
 land to consult with the Cardinal. There 
 seemed to be no doubt that the. Revolu- 
 tionarv i^artv in Italy, assured bv the
 
 LOTHAIK. 139 
 
 withdrawal of the French, troops from 
 Rome, were agam sth'ring. There seemed 
 also Httle doubt that London was the centre 
 of preparation, though the project and the 
 projectors were involved in much mystery. 
 ' They want money,' said the Monsignore ; 
 ' that we know, and that is now our best 
 chance. The Aspromonte expedition drained 
 their private resources; and as for fm'ther 
 aid, that is out of tlie cpaestion ; the gahmt- 
 uomo is bankrupt. But the Atheists are 
 desperate, and we must prepare for events.' 
 On the morning after their arrival, the 
 Cardinal invited Lothair to a stroll in the 
 park. ' There is the feeling of spring this 
 morning,' said his Eminence, ' though 
 scarcely jet its vision.' It was truly a 
 day of balm, and sweetness, and quickening 
 life ; a delicate mist hung about the huge 
 trees and the masses of more distant woods, 
 and seemed to clothe them witli that ful- 
 ness of foliao-e wliicli was not vet theirs. 
 The Cardinal discoursed nnich on forest 
 trees, and hap])ily. He recommended
 
 140 LOTH AIR. 
 
 Lotliair to read Evelyn's ' Sylva.' Mr. 
 Evelyn had a most accomplished mmd ; 
 mdeed, a character m every respect that 
 approached perfection. He was also a most 
 religions man. 
 
 ' I wonder,' said Lothair, ' how any man 
 who is religious can think of anything but 
 relifiion.' 
 
 ' True,' said the Cardinal, and looking at 
 him earnestly, ' most true. But all things 
 that are good and beautiful make us more 
 religious. They tend to the development 
 of the religious principle in us, which is 
 our divine nature. And, my dear young 
 friend,' and here his Eminence put his arm 
 easily and affectionately into that of Lo- 
 thair's, ' it is a most happy thing for you, 
 that you live so much with a really religious 
 family. It is a great boon for a young 
 man, and a rare one.' 
 
 ' I feel it so,' said Lothair, his face kind- 
 lino;. 
 
 ' Ah ! ' said the Cardinal, ' when we 
 remember that this country once consisted
 
 LOTIIAIE. 141 
 
 only of such families ! ' And then, with a 
 sigh, and as if speaking to himself, ' and 
 they made it so great and so beautifiil ! ' 
 
 'It is still great and beautiful,' said 
 Lothair, but rather in a tone of enquiry 
 than decision. 
 
 ' But the cause of its greatness and its 
 beauty no longer exists. It became great 
 and beautiful because it believed in God.' 
 
 ' But faith is not extinct?' said Lothair. 
 
 ' It exists in the Church,' replied the 
 Cardinal with decision. ' All without that 
 pale is practical atheism.' 
 
 ' It seems to me that a sense of duty is 
 natural to man,' said Lothair, 'and that 
 there can be no satisfaction in life without 
 attempting to fulhl it.' 
 
 ' Xoble words, my dear young friend ; 
 noble and true. And the highest duty of 
 man, especially in this age, is to vindicate 
 the principles of rehgion, without which 
 the world nuist soon become a scene of 
 universal desolation.' 
 
 ' I wonder if England will ever again
 
 142 LOTH AIR. 
 
 be a religious country,' said Lothair mil- 
 singly. 
 
 ' I pray for that daily,' said the Cardinal; 
 and he invited his companion to seat him- 
 self on the trmik of an oak that had been 
 lying there since the autumn fall. A slight 
 hectic flame played over the pale and 
 attenuated countenance of the Cardinal ; 
 he seemed for a moment in deep thought ; 
 and then, in a voice distinct yet somewhat 
 hushed, and at first rather faltering, he 
 said, ' I know not a grander, or a nobler 
 career, for a vouns: man of talents and 
 position in this age, than to be the cham- 
 pion and asserter of Divine truth. It is not 
 probable that there could be another con- 
 queror in our time. The world is wearied 
 of statesmen, whom democracy has de- 
 graded into politicians, and of orators who 
 have become what they call debaters. I do 
 not believe there could be another Dante, 
 even another Milton. The world is devoted 
 to physical science, because it believes these 
 discoveries will increase its capacity of
 
 LOTHAIR. 143 
 
 luxury and self-indulgence. But the pui'- 
 suit of science leads only to the insoluble. 
 When we arrive at that barren term, the 
 divine voice suip.mons man, as it summoned 
 Samuel ; all the poetry and passion and 
 sentunent of human nature are taking 
 refuge in religion ; and he, whose deeds 
 and words most nobly represent Divine 
 thouo-hts, will be the man of this centm'v.' 
 
 ' But who could be equal to such a task,' 
 murmured Lothair. 
 
 ' Yourself,' exclaimed the Cardinal, and 
 he threw his glittering eye upon his com- 
 panion. ' Anj'one with the necessary gifts, 
 who had implicit faitli in the Divine pur- 
 pose.' 
 
 ' But the Church is perplexed; it is am- 
 biguous, contradictory.' 
 
 ' No, no,' said the Cardinal ; ' not the 
 Church of Christ; it is never perplexed, 
 never ambiguous, never contradictory. 
 Why sliould it be ? J low could it be ? 
 The Divine persons are ever with it, 
 strenfrthenino; and ci-uidinii' it witli per-
 
 144 LOTIIAIE. 
 
 petual miracles. Perplexed cliurclies are 
 clmrclies made by Act of Parliament, not 
 by God.' 
 
 Lothair seemed to start, and looked at 
 liis guardian with a scrutinising glance. 
 And then he said, but not without hesi- 
 tation, ' I experience at times great de- 
 spondency.' 
 
 ' Naturally,' replied the Cardinal. ' Every 
 man must be despondent who is not a 
 Christian.' 
 
 ' But I am a Christian,' said Lothair. 
 
 ' A Christian estranged,' said the Car- 
 dinal ; ' a Christian without the consola- 
 tions of Christianity.' 
 
 ' There is something in that,' said Lothair. 
 ' I require the consolations of Christianity, 
 and yet I feel I have them not. Why is 
 this ? ' 
 
 ' Because what von call your relioion is 
 a thing apart from your life, and it ought 
 to be your life. Religion should be the 
 rule of life, not a casual incident of it. 
 There is not a duty of existence, not a joy
 
 LOTHAIR. 145 
 
 or sorrow wliicli the services of tlie Church 
 do not assert, or with which thej^ do not 
 sympathise. Tell me, now ; you have, 
 I was glad to hear, attended the services 
 of the Church of late, since you have been 
 under this admirable roof. Have you not 
 then found some consolation ? ' 
 
 ' Yes ; without doubt I have been often 
 solaced.' And Lothair sig'hed. 
 
 ' AVhat the soul is to man, the Church is 
 to the world,' said the Cardinal. ' It is the 
 link between us and the Divine nature. 
 It came from heaven complete ; it has never 
 changed, and it can never alter. Its cere- 
 monies are types of celestial truths ; its 
 ser\dces are suited to all the moods of man ; 
 they strengthen him m his wisdom and his 
 purity, and control and save him in the 
 hour of passion and temptation. Taken as 
 a whole, with all its 'ministrations, its or- 
 ders, its offices, and the divhie splendour 
 of its ritual, it secures us on cjirtli some 
 adumbration of that ineffiiljle glory whicli 
 awaits the faithful in heaven, where the 
 
 VOL. I. L
 
 146 LOTHAIR. 
 
 blessed Mother of God and ten thousand 
 saints perpetually guard over us with Di- 
 vine intercession.' 
 
 ' I was not taught these things in my 
 boyhood,' said Lothair. 
 
 ' And you might reproach me and reason- 
 ably, as your guardian, for my neglect,' said 
 the Cardinal. ' But my power was very 
 limited, and when my duties commenced, 
 you must remember that I was myself 
 estranged from the Church, I was myself 
 a Parliamentary Christian, till despon- 
 dency and study and ceaseless thought 
 and prayer, and the Divine will, brought 
 me to light and rest. But I at least saved 
 you from a Presbyterian University ; I at 
 least secured Oxford for you; and I can 
 assure you of my many struggles that was 
 not the least.' 
 
 ' It gave the turn to my mind,' said 
 Lothair, ' and I am grateful to you for it. 
 What it will all end in, God only knows.' 
 
 ' It will end in His glory and in yours,' 
 said the Cardinal. ' I have spoken, per-
 
 LOTHAIR. 147 
 
 haps, too much and too freely, but you 
 greatly mterest me, not merely because 
 you are my charge and the son of my 
 beloved friend, but because I perceive in 
 you gTeat qualities — qualities so great,' 
 continued the Cardmal with earnestness, 
 ' that, properly guided, they may consider- 
 ably affect the history of this country, and 
 perhaps even have a wider range.' 
 
 Lothair shook his head. 
 
 ' Well, well,' continued the Cardinal in a 
 lighter tone, ' we will pursue our ramble. 
 At any rate, I am not wrong in this, that 
 you have no objection to join in my daily 
 prayer for the conversion of this kingdom 
 
 to religious truth,' his Eminence added 
 
 after a pause. 
 
 ' Yes ; religious truth,' said Lothair, ' we 
 must all pray for that.' 
 
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 14S LOTHAIK. 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
 LoTHAiR returned to town excited and 
 agfitated. He felt that he was on the eve 
 of some great event in his existence, but its 
 precise character was not defined. One 
 conclusion, however, was indubitable : hfe 
 must be religion. When we consider what 
 is at stake, and that our eternal welfare de- 
 pends on our due preparation for the 
 future, it was folly to spare a single hour 
 from the consideration of the best means to 
 secure our readiness. Such a subject does 
 not admit of half measures or of halting 
 opinions. It seemed to Lothair that 
 nothino; could interest him in life that was 
 not symbolical of divine truths and an 
 adumbration of the celestial hereafter. 
 
 Could truth have descended from heaven 
 ever to be distorted, to be corrupted, mis-
 
 LOTHAIR. 149 
 
 apprehended, misunderstood ? Impossible ! 
 Such a behef would confound and contra- 
 dict all the attributes of the All-wise and 
 the All-mighty. There must be truth on 
 earth now as fresh and complete as it was 
 at Bethlehem. And how could it be pre- 
 served but by the influence of the Paraclete 
 acting on an ordained class ? On this head 
 his tutor at Oxford had fortified him; by a 
 conviction of the Apostolical succession of 
 the Enghsh bishops, which no Act of Parlia- 
 ment could alter or affect. But Lothair 
 was haunted by a feeling that the relations 
 of his Communion with the Blessed Virgin 
 were not satisfactory. They could not con- 
 tent either his heart or his intellect. Was 
 it becoming that a Christian should live as 
 regards the hallowed Mother of his God in 
 a condition of harsh estrangement ? Wliat 
 mediatorial influence more awfully appro- 
 priate than the consecrated agent of the 
 mighty mystery? Nor could he, even in 
 his early days, accept without a scruple the 
 frigid system that would class the lioly
 
 150 LOTIIAIR. 
 
 actors in tlie divine drama of tlie Redemption 
 as mere units in the categories of vanished 
 generations. Human beings who had been 
 in personal relation with the Godhead must 
 be different from other hmnan beini^s. 
 There must be some transcendent quality 
 in their lives and careers, in their very or- 
 ganisation, which marks them out from all 
 secular heroes. What was Alexander the 
 Great, or even Caius Julius, compared with 
 that apostle whom Jesus loved? 
 
 Restless and disquieted, Lothair paced 
 tlie long and lofty rooms which had been 
 secured for him in a London hotel which 
 rivalled the colossal convenience of Paris 
 and the American cities. Their tawdry 
 ornaments and then- terrible new furniture 
 would not do after the galleries and portraits 
 of Vauxe. Lothair sio-hed. 
 
 Why did that visit ever end ? Why did 
 the world consist of anything else but 
 Tudor palaces in ferny parks, or time be 
 other than a perpetual tloly Week ? He 
 never sighed at Yauxe. Why? He sup-
 
 LOTHAIR. 151 
 
 posed it was because there religion was his 
 life, and here — and he looked around him 
 with a shudder. The Cardinal was ria'ht : 
 it was a most happy thing for him to be 
 livino: so much with so truly a religious 
 family. 
 
 The door opened, and servants came in 
 bearing a large and magnificent portfolio. 
 It was of morocco and of prelatial purple 
 with broad bands of gold and alternate or- 
 naments of a cross and a coronet. A ser- 
 vant handed to Lothair a letter, which 
 enclosed the key that opened its lock. The 
 portfolio contained the plans and drawings 
 of the cathedral. 
 
 Lothair was lost in admiration of these 
 designs and their execution. But after the 
 first fever of investigation was over, lie re- 
 quired sympathy and also information. In 
 a truly religious famil}^ there would always 
 be a Father Coleman or a Monsjo-nore 
 Catesby to guide and to instruct, liut a 
 Protestant, if he wants aid or advice on am- 
 matter, can only go to lii.s solicitor. But as
 
 152 LOTHAIR. 
 
 he proceeded in his researches he sensibly 
 felt that the business was one above even 
 an Oratorian or a Monsignore. It required 
 a finer and a more intimate sympathy; a 
 taste at the same time more inspired and 
 more inspiring ; some one who blended with 
 divine convictions the graceful energy of 
 human feeling, and who would not only 
 animate him to effort but fascinate him to 
 its fulfilment. The counsellor he required 
 was Miss Arundel. 
 
 Lothair had quitted Yauxe one week, 
 and it seemed to him a year. During the 
 first four-and-twenty hours he felt hke a 
 child who had returned to school, and, the 
 day after, like a man on a desert island. 
 Various other forms of misery and misfor- 
 tune were suggested by his succeeding 
 experience. Town brought no distractions 
 to him ; he knew very few people, and these 
 lie had not yet encountered ; he had once 
 ventured to White's, but found only a group 
 of grey-headed men, who evidently did not 
 know him, and who seemed to scan him
 
 LOTH AIR. 153 
 
 ■with cynical nonchalance. These were not 
 the golden youth whom he had heen assured 
 by Bertram would greet him; so, after 
 readmg a newspaper for a moment upside 
 downwards, he got away. But he had no 
 harbour of refuge, and was obliged to ride 
 down to Richmond and dine alone and 
 meditate on symbols and celestial adum- 
 brations. Every day he felt how inferior 
 was this existence to that of a life in a truly 
 religious family. 
 
 But of all the members of the family 
 to which his memory recurred with such 
 unflagging interest none more frequently 
 enofaGfed his thouo-hts than Miss Arundel. 
 Her conversation, which stimulated his in- 
 telligence while it rather piqued his self- 
 love, exercised a great influence over him, 
 and he had omitted no opportunity of 
 enjoying her society. That society and its 
 animating power he sadly missed ; and now 
 that he had before him the very drawings 
 about which they had frequently talked, 
 and she was not by his side to suggest and
 
 154 LOTHAIR. 
 
 sympathise and criticise and praise, lie felt 
 unusually depressed. 
 
 Lotliair corresponded with Lady St. 
 Jerome, and was aware of her intended 
 movements. But the return of the family 
 to London had been somewhat delayed. 
 When this disappointment was first made 
 known to him his impulse was to ride 
 down to Vauxe; but the tact in which he 
 was not deficient assured him that he 
 ought not to reappear on a stage where 
 he had already figured for perhaps too 
 considerable a time, and so another week 
 had to be passed, softened, however, bv 
 visits fi:om the Father of the Oratory and 
 the Chamberlain of his Holiness, who came 
 to look after Lothair with much friendli- 
 ness, and with whom it was consolatory 
 and even delio'htful for him to converse on 
 sacred art, still holier things, and also ]\Iiss 
 Arundel. 
 
 At length, though it seemed impossible, 
 this second week elapsed, and to-morrow 
 Lothair was to lunch with Ladv St. Jerome
 
 LOTHAIR. 155 
 
 in St. James's Square, and to meet all liis 
 friends. He tliouo-ht of it all day, and lie 
 passed a restless night. He took an early 
 canter to rally his energies, and his fancy 
 was active in the splendour of the spring. 
 The chestnuts were in silver bloom, and 
 the pink May had flushed the thorns, and 
 banks of sloping turf were radiant with 
 plots of gorgeous flowers. The waters 
 glittered in the sun, and the air was fra- 
 grant witli that spell which only can be 
 found in metropolitan mignionette. It was 
 the hour and the season when heroic youth 
 comes to great decisions, achieves exploits, 
 or perpetrates scrapes. 
 
 Nothing could be more cordial, nothing 
 more winning, than the reception of Lo- 
 thair by Lady St. Jerome. She did not 
 conceal her joy at their being again together. 
 Even Miss Arundel, tliough still calm, 
 even a little demure, seemed glad to see 
 him: her eyes looked kind and })leased, and 
 she gave him her hand with graceful hearti- 
 ness. It was the sacred hour of two Avhen
 
 156 LOTHAIR. 
 
 Lotliair arrived, and they were silmmoned 
 to Innclieon almost immediately. Then 
 they Avere not alone; Lord St. Jerome was 
 not there, bnt the priests were present and 
 some others. Lothair, however, sate next 
 to Miss Arundel. 
 
 ' I have been thinking of you very often 
 since I left Vauxe,' said Lothair to his 
 neighbour. 
 
 ' Charitably, I am sure.' 
 
 ' I have been thinking of you every 
 day,' he continued, ' for I wanted your 
 advice.' 
 
 ' Ah ! but that is not a popular thing to 
 give.' 
 
 ' But it is precious — at least, yours is to 
 me — and I want it now very much.' 
 
 ' Father Coleman told me you had got 
 the plans for the cathedral,' said Miss 
 Arundel. 
 
 ' And I want to show them to you.' 
 
 ' I fear I am only a critic,' said Miss 
 Arundel, ' and I do not admire mere critics. 
 I was very free in my comments to you on
 
 LOTH AIR. 157 
 
 several subjects at Vauxe ; and I must now 
 say I thought you bore it very kmclly.' 
 
 ' I was enchanted,' said Lothair, ' and 
 desire nothing but to be ever subject to 
 such remarks. But this affair of the cathe- 
 dral, it is your own thought — I would fain 
 hope your own wish, for unless it were your 
 own wish I do not think I ever should be 
 able to accomplish it.' 
 
 ' And when the cathedral is built,' said 
 Miss Arundel, ' what then ? ' 
 
 ' Do you not remember tellhig me at 
 Vauxe that all sacred buildings should be 
 respected, for that in the long run they 
 generally fell to the professors of the true 
 faith?' 
 
 ' But when they built St. Peter's, they 
 dedicated it to a saint in heaven,' said Miss 
 Arundel. ' To whom is yours to be in- 
 scribed ? ' 
 
 ' To a saint in heaven and in earth,' said 
 Lothair, blushing; 'to St. Clare.' 
 
 But Lady St. Jerome and her guests 
 rose at this moment, and it is impossible to
 
 158 LOTHAIR. 
 
 say witli precision whether this last remark 
 of Lothair absohitely reached the ear of 
 Miss Arundel. She looked as if it had not. 
 The priests and the other guests dispersed. 
 Lothair accompanied the ladies to the draw- 
 ing-room : he lingered, and he was medita- 
 ting if the occasion served to say more. 
 
 Lady St. Jerome was writing a note, 
 Miss Arundel was arranging some work, 
 Lothair was affecting an interest in her 
 employment in order that he might be 
 seated by her and ask her questions, when 
 the groom of the chambers entered and en- 
 quired whether her Ladyship was at home, 
 and beino' answered in the affirmative re- 
 tired, and announced and ushered in the 
 Duchess and Lady Corisande.
 
 LOTIIAIR. 15 9 
 
 CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 It seemed that the Duchess and Lady 
 St. Jerome were intimate, for they called 
 each other by then- Christian names, and 
 kissed each other. The young ladies also 
 were cordial. Her Grace greeted Lothair 
 with heartiness ; Lady Corisande with some 
 reserve. Lothair thought she looked very 
 radiant and very proud. 
 
 It was some time since they had all met 
 — not since the end of the last season — so 
 there was a great deal to talk about. There 
 had been deaths and births and marriages, 
 which required a flying comment — all hn- 
 portant events : deaths wliich solved many 
 difficulties, heirs to estates which were not 
 expected, and weddings wliich surprised 
 everybody. 
 
 "And have you seen Selina?' enquired 
 Lady St. Jerome.
 
 1 60 LOTHAIl?^ 
 
 ' Not yet ; except mamma, this is our 
 first visit,' replied the Duchess. 
 
 ' Ah ! that is real friendship ! She came 
 down to Vauxe the other day, but I did not 
 think she was looking well. She frets her- 
 self too much about her boys ; she does not 
 know what to do with them. They will 
 not go into the Church, and they have no 
 fortune for the Guards.' 
 
 ' I understood that Lord Plantagenet was 
 to be a civil engineer,' said Lady Corisande. 
 
 ' And Lord Albert Victor to have a sheep- 
 walk in Australia,' continued Lady St. 
 Jerome. 
 
 ' They say that a lord must not go to 
 the bar,' said Miss Arundel. ' It seems to 
 me very unjust.' 
 
 ' Alfred Beaufort went the circuit,' said 
 Lady Corisande, ' but I believe they drove 
 him into Parliament.' 
 
 ' You will miss your friend Bertram at 
 Oxford,' said the Duchess, addressing Lo- 
 thair. 
 
 ' Indeed,' said Lothair, rather confused. 
 
 .1
 
 LOTHAIR. 161 
 
 for he was himself a defaulter in coUegiate 
 attendance. ' I was just going to write to 
 him to see whether one could not keep half 
 a term.' 
 
 ' Oh ! nothing will prevent his taking his 
 degree,' said the Duchess, ' but I fear there 
 must be some delay. There is a vacancy 
 for our county — Mr. Sandstone is dead, and 
 they insist upon returning Bertram. I 
 hope he will be of age before the nomina- 
 tion. The Duke is much opposed to it; he 
 wishes him to wait ; but in these days it is 
 not so easy for young men to get into Par- 
 liament. It is not as it used to be ; we 
 cannot choose.' 
 
 ' This is an important event,' said Lothair 
 to Lady Corisande. 
 
 ' I think it is ; nor do I believe Bertram 
 is too young for public life. These are not 
 times to be laggard.' 
 
 ' There is no doubt they are very serious 
 times,' said Lothair. 
 
 ' I have every confidence in Bertram — in 
 his aljility and his principles.' 
 
 VOL. I. M
 
 162 LOTHAIK. 
 
 The ladies began to talk about the ap- 
 proaching Drawing-room and Lady Cori- 
 sande's presentation, and Lothair thought it 
 riirht to make his obeisance and withdraw. 
 He met in the hall Father Coleman, who was 
 in fact looking after him, and would have 
 induced him to repair to the Father's room 
 and hold some interesting conversation, but 
 Lothair was not so congenial as usual. He 
 was even abrupt, and the Father, who never 
 pressed anytliing, assuming that Lothair 
 had some engagement, relinquished with 
 a serene brow, but not without chagrin, 
 what he had deemed might have proved a 
 golden opportunity. 
 
 And yet Lothair had no engagement, and 
 did not know where to go or what to do 
 with himself. But he wanted to be alone, 
 and of all persons in the world at that 
 moment, he had a sort of instinct that the 
 one he wished least to converse with was 
 Father Coleman. 
 
 ' She has every confidence in his princi- 
 ples,' said Lothair to himself as he mounted
 
 LOTHAIR. 16 
 
 Q 
 
 his horse, ' and his principles were mine six 
 months ago, when I was at Brentham. 
 Dehcious Brentham ! It seems hke a dream ; 
 but everything seems hke a dream: I 
 hardly know whether hfe is agony or bhss.' 
 
 M -2
 
 164 LOTHAIR. 
 
 CHAPTER XX. 
 
 The Duke was one of the few gentlemen in 
 London who lived in a palace. One of the 
 half dozen of those stately structures that 
 our capital boasts had fallen to his lot. 
 
 An heir apparent to the throne, in the 
 earher days of the present dynasty, had 
 resolved to be lodged as became a prince, 
 and had raised, amid gardens which he had 
 diverted from one of the royal parks, an 
 edifice not unworthy of Vicenza in its best 
 days, though on a far more extensive scale 
 than any pile that favoured city boasts. 
 Before the palace was finished the prince 
 died, and irretrievably in debt. His execu- 
 tors were glad to seU to the trustees of the 
 ancestors of the chief of the house of Bren- 
 tham the incomplete palace, which ought 
 never to have been commenced. The an-
 
 LOTHAIR. 165 
 
 cestor of the Duke was by no means so 
 strong a man as the Duke himself, and pru- 
 dent people rather murmured at the exploit. 
 But it was w^hat is called a lucky family — 
 that is to say, a family with a charm that 
 always attracted and absorbed heiresses; 
 and perhaps the splendour of Crecy House, 
 for it always retained its original title, 
 might have in some degree contributed to 
 fascinate the taste or imagination of the 
 beautiful women who, generation after 
 generation, brought their bright castles and 
 their broad manors to swell the state and 
 rent-rolls of the family who were, so kind 
 to Lothair. 
 
 The centre of Crecy House consisted of 
 a hall of vast proportion, and reaching to 
 the roof. Its walls commemorated, in 
 paintings by the most celebrated artists of 
 the age, the exploits of the Black Prince ; 
 and its coved ceiUng, in panels resplen- 
 dent with Venetian gold, contained the 
 forms and portraits of English heroes. A 
 corridor round this hall contained the most
 
 166 LOTHAIR. 
 
 celebrated private collection of pictures in 
 England, and opened into a series of sump- 
 tuous saloons. 
 
 It was a rather early hour when Lothair, 
 the morning after his meeting the Duchess 
 at Lady St. Jerome's, called at Crecy House ; 
 but it was only to leave his card. He 
 would not delay for a moment paying his re- 
 spects there, and yet he shrank from thrust- 
 ing himself immediately into the circle. 
 The Duke's brougham was in the court- 
 yard. Lothair was holding his groom's 
 horse, who had dismounted, when the hall- 
 door opened and his Grace and Bertram 
 came forth. 
 
 ' Halloa, old fellow ! ' exclaimed Bertram, 
 ' only think of your being here. It seems 
 an age since we met. The Duchess was 
 telling us about you at breakfast.' 
 
 ' Go in and see them,' said the Duke, 
 ' there is a large party at luncheon ; Au- 
 gusta Montairy is there. Bertram and I 
 are obliged to go to Lincoln's Inn, something 
 about his election.'
 
 LOTHAIR. 167 
 
 But Lothaii' murmured thanks and de- 
 clined. 
 
 ' What are you going to do with, your- 
 self to-day?' said the Duke. And Lo- 
 thair hesitating, his Grace continued : ' Well 
 then, come and dine with us.' 
 
 ' Of course you will come, old fellow. I 
 have not seen you since you left Oxford at 
 the beginning of the year. And then we 
 can settle about your term.' And Lothair 
 assenting, they drove away. 
 
 It was nine o'clock before they dined. The 
 days were getting very long, and soft, and 
 sweet; the riding parties lingered amid the 
 pink May and the tender twilight breeze. 
 The Montairys dined to-day at Crecy House, 
 and a charming married daughter without 
 her husband, and Lord and Lady Clan- 
 morne, who were near kin to the Duchess, 
 and themselves so good-looking and agree- 
 able that they were as good at a dinner- 
 party as a couple of firstrate entrees. There 
 was also Lord Carisbrooke, a young man of 
 distinguished air and appearance ; his own
 
 168 LOTHAIR. 
 
 master, with a large estate, and three years 
 or so older than Lothair. 
 
 They dined in the Chinese saloon, which 
 was of moderate dimensions, but bright with 
 fantastic forms and colours, briUiantly lit up. 
 It was the privilege of Lothair to hand the 
 Duchess to her seat. He observed that 
 Lord Carisbrooke was placed next to Lady 
 Corisande, though he had not taken her out. 
 
 ' This dinner reminds me of my visit to 
 Brentham,' said Lothair. 
 
 'Almost the same party,' said the Duchess. 
 
 ' The visit to Brentham was the happiest 
 time of my hfe,' said Lothair moodily. 
 
 ' But you have seen a great deal since,' 
 said the Duchess. 
 
 ' I am not so sure it is of any use seeing 
 things,' said Lothair. 
 
 V\^hen the ladies retired, there was some 
 talk about horses. Lord Carisbrooke was 
 breeding ; Lothair thought it was a duty 
 to breed, but not to go on the turf. Lord 
 Carisbrooke thought there could be no good 
 breeding without racing ; Lothair was of
 
 LOTHAIR. 169 
 
 opinion that races might fee confined to 
 one's own parks, with no legs admitted, 
 and immense prizes, which must cause 
 emulation. Then they joined the ladies, 
 and then, in a short time, there was music. 
 Lothair hovered about Lady Corisande, and 
 at last seized a happy opportunity of ad- 
 dressing her. 
 
 ' I shall never forget your singing at 
 Brentham,' he said ; ' at first I thought it 
 might be as Lady Montairy said, because I 
 was not used to fine singing ; but I heard 
 the Venusina the other day, and I prefer 
 your voice and style.' 
 
 ' Have you heard the Venusina ? ' said 
 Lady Corisande with animation ; ' I know 
 nothing that I look forward to with more 
 interest. But I was told she was not to 
 open her mouth until she appeared at the 
 Opera. Where did you hear her?' 
 
 ' Oh, I heard her,' said Lothair, ' at the 
 Roman Catholic Cathedral.' 
 
 ' I am sure I shall never hear her there,' 
 said Lady Corisande, looking very grave.
 
 170 LOTHAIR. 
 
 ' Do not you think music a powerful 
 accessory to religion?' said Lothair, but a 
 little embarrassed. 
 
 ' Within certain limits,' said Lady Cori- 
 sande, 'the limits I am used to; but I should 
 prefer to hear Opera singers at the Opera.' 
 
 'Ah! if all amateurs could sing like you,' 
 said Lothair, ' that would be unnecessary. 
 But a fine Mass by Mozart — it requires great 
 skill as well as power to render it. I admire 
 no one so much as Mozart, and especially 
 his Masses. I have been hearing a great 
 many of them lately.' 
 
 ' So we understood,' said Lady Corisande 
 rather dryly, and looking about her as if 
 she were not much interested, or at any 
 rate not much gratified, by the conversation. 
 
 Lothair felt he was not getting on, and 
 he wished to get on ; but he was socially 
 inexperienced, and his resources not much 
 in hand. There was a pause — it seemed to 
 him an awkward pause; and then Lady 
 Corisande walked away and addressed Lady 
 Clanmorne. 
 
 Some very fine singing began at this
 
 LOTHAIR. 171 
 
 1 
 
 moment ; the room was hushed, no one 
 moved, and Lothair, undisturbed, had the 
 opportunity of watching his late companion. 
 There was something in Lady Corisande 
 that to him was irresistibly captivating; 
 and as he was always thinking and analys- 
 ing, he employed himself in discovering the 
 cause. ' She is not particularly gracious,' 
 he said to himself, ' at least not to me ; she 
 is beautiful, but so are others ; and others, 
 like her, are clever — perhaps more clever. 
 But there is something in her brow, her 
 glance, her carriage, which intimate what 
 they call character, which interests me. 
 Six months ago I was in love with her, 
 because I thought she was like her sisters. 
 I love her sisters, but she is not the least 
 like them.' 
 
 The music ceased; Lothair moved away, 
 and he approached the Duke. 
 
 ' I have a favour to ask your Grace,' he 
 said. 'I have made up my mind tliat I 
 shall not go back to Oxford this term ; 
 would your Grace do me the great favour 
 of presenting me at the next Lev^e ? '
 
 172 LOTH AIR. 
 
 CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 One's life changes in a moment. Half a 
 month ago, Lothair, without an acquaint- 
 ance, was meditating his return to Oxford. 
 Now he seemed to know everybody who 
 was anybody. His table was overflowing 
 with invitations to all the fine houses in 
 town. First came the routs and the balls ; 
 then, when he had been presented to the 
 husbands, came the dinners. His kind 
 friends the Duchess and Lady St. Jerome 
 were the fairies which had worked this 
 sudden scene of enchantment. A single 
 word from them, and London was at 
 Lothair' s feet. 
 
 He liked it amazingly. He quite forgot 
 the conclusion at which he had arrived 
 respecting society a year ago, drawn fi:-om 
 his vast experience of the single party 
 which he had then attended. Feelings are
 
 LOTHAIR. 173 
 
 different when you know a great many 
 persons, and every person is trying to 
 please you ; above all, when there are indi- 
 \dduals whom you want to meet, and whom, 
 if you do not meet;, you become restless. 
 
 Town was beo^innins: to blaze. Brouf^h- 
 ams whirled and bright barouches glanced, 
 troops of social cavalry cantered and cara- 
 colled in morning rides, and the bells of 
 prancing ponies, lashed by delicate hands, 
 gingled in the laughing air. There were 
 stoppages in Bond Street, which seems to 
 cap the climax of civilisation, after crowded 
 clubs and swarming parks. 
 
 But the great event of the season was 
 the presentation of Lady Corisande. Truly 
 our bri<j;ht maiden of Brentham woke and 
 found herself famous. There are families 
 whom everybody praises, and famiUes who 
 are treated in a different way. Either mil 
 do ; all the sons and daughters of the first 
 succeed; all the sons and daughters of the 
 last are encouraged in perverseness by the 
 prophetic determination of society. Half
 
 174 LOTHAIR. 
 
 a dozen married sisters, wlio were the de- 
 lio:ht and ornament of their circles, in the 
 case of Lady Corisande were good precur- 
 sors of popularity ; but the world would 
 not be content with that : they credited her 
 with all their charms and winning quahties, 
 but also "w4th something grander and su- 
 preme ; and from the moment her fair cheek 
 was sealed by the gracious approbation of 
 Majesty, all the critics of the Court at once 
 recognised her as the C}Tiosure of the Empy- 
 rean. 
 
 Monsignore Catesby, who looked after 
 Lothair, and was always breakfasting with 
 him without the necessity of an invitation 
 — a fascinating man, and who talked upon 
 all subjects except High Mass — knew every- 
 thing that took place at Court without being 
 present there himself. He led the conver- 
 sation to the majestic theme, and while he 
 seemed to be busied m breaking an egg 
 with delicate precision, and hardly hstening 
 to the frank expression of opinions which 
 he carelessly encouraged, obtained a not in-
 
 LOTHAIR. 175 
 
 sufficient share of Lothair's views and im- 
 pressions of human beings and affairs in 
 general during the last few days, which had 
 witnessed a Levee and a Drawing-room. 
 
 ' Ah ! then you were so fortunate as to 
 know the beauty before her debut,' said the 
 Monsignore. 
 
 ' Intimately ; her brother is my friend. 
 I was at Brentham last summer. Dehcious 
 place ! and the most agreeable visit I ever 
 made in my life — at least, one of the most 
 agreeable.' 
 
 ' Ah ! ah ! ' said the Monsignore. ' Let 
 me ring for some toast.' 
 
 On the night of the Drawing-room, a 
 great ball was given at Crecy House to 
 celebrate the entrance of Corisande into the 
 world. It was a sumptuous festival. The 
 palace, resonant with fantastic music, blazed 
 amid illumined gardens rich with summer 
 warmth. 
 
 A prince of the blood was dancing with 
 Lady Corisande. Lothair was there vis-a- 
 vis with Miss Arundel.
 
 176 LOTHAIR. 
 
 ' I deliglit in this hall,' she said to Lothair ; 
 ' but how superior the pictured scene to the 
 reality ! ' 
 
 ' "What ! would you hke, then, to be in a 
 battle?' 
 
 ' I should hke to be with heroes, where - 
 ever they might be. What a fine character 
 was the Black Prince ! And they call those 
 days the days of superstition ! ' 
 
 The silver horns sounded a brave flourish. 
 Lothair had to advance and meet Lady 
 Corisande. Her approaching mien was full 
 of grace and majesty, but Lothair thought 
 there was a kind expression in her glance, 
 which seemed to remember Brentham, and 
 that he was her brother's friend. 
 
 A little later in the evening he was her 
 partner. He could not refrain from con- 
 gratulating her on the beauty and the suc- 
 cess of the festival. 
 
 ' I am glad you are pleased, and I am 
 glad you think it successful ; but, you 
 know, I am no judge, for this is my first 
 ball ! '
 
 LOTHAIE. 177 
 
 ' All ! to be sure ; and yet it seems im- 
 possible,' he continued, in a tone of mur- 
 muring admii'ation. 
 
 ' Oh ! I have been at little dances at my 
 sisters' — half behind the door,' she added, 
 with a shght smile. ' But to-night I am 
 present at a scene of which I have only 
 read.' 
 
 *And how do you hke balls?' said 
 Lothair. 
 
 ' I think I shall like them very much,' 
 said Lady Corisande; ' but to-night, I mil 
 confess, I am a little nervous.' 
 
 ' You do not look so.' 
 
 ' I am glad of that.' 
 
 ' Why ? ' 
 
 ' Is it not a sign of weakness ? ' 
 
 ' Can feeling be weakness ? ' 
 
 'Feeling mthout sufficient cause is, 1 
 should think.' And then, and in a tone of 
 some arclmess, she said, ' And how do 
 you like balls ? ' 
 
 'Well, I like them amazingly,' said 
 Lothair. ' They seem to me to have every 
 
 VOL. I. N
 
 178 LOTH AIR. 
 
 quality which can render an entertamment 
 agreeable: music, light, flowers, beautiful 
 faces, graceful forms, and occasionally 
 charming conversation.' 
 
 ' Yes; and that never lingers,' said Lady 
 Corisande, ' for see, I am wanted.' 
 
 When they were again undisturbed, 
 Lothair regretted the absence of Bertram, 
 who was kept at the House. 
 
 ' It is a great disappointment,' said Lady 
 Corisande ; ' but he will yet arrive, though 
 late. I should be most unhappy though, if 
 he were absent from his post on such an 
 occasion. I am sure if he were here I 
 could not dance.' 
 
 ' You are a most ardent politician,' said 
 Lothair. 
 
 ' Oh ! I do not care in the least about 
 common politics — parties and office and all 
 that ; I neither regard nor understand 
 them,' replied Lady Corisande. ' But when 
 wicked men try to destroy the country, 
 then I like my family to be in the front.' 
 
 As the destruction of the country medi-
 
 LOTHAIR. 179 
 
 tated this night by wicked men was some 
 chan2:e in the status of the Church of Eno-. 
 land, which Monsignore Catesby in the 
 mornino' had susfo-ested to Lothair as both 
 just and expedient and highly concihatory, 
 Lothair did not piu*sne the theme, for he 
 had a greater degree of tact than usually 
 falls to the lot of the ingenuous. 
 
 The bright moments flew on. Suddenly 
 there was a mysterious silence in the hall, 
 followed by a kind of suppressed stir. Every- 
 one seemed to be speaking with bated 
 breath, or, if moving, walkhig on tiptoe. 
 It was the supper hour — 
 
 Soft hour which wake.s the wish and melts the heart. 
 
 Royalty, followed by the imperial presence 
 of ambassadors, and escorted by a group of 
 dazzling duchesses and paladins of high 
 degree, was ushered with courteous pomp 
 by the host and hostess into a choice sa- 
 loon, hung with rose-coloured tapestry and 
 illumined by chandeliers of crystal, where 
 they were served from gold plate. But 
 
 N 2
 
 180 LOTHAIR. 
 
 the thousand less favoured were not badly 
 off, when they found themselves m the 
 more capacious chambers, mto which they 
 rushed with an eagerness hardly in keeping 
 with the splendid nonchalance of the pre- 
 ceding hours. 
 
 ' What a perfect family,' exclaimed Hugo 
 Bohun, as he extracted a couple of fat 
 little birds from their bed of aspic jeUy, 
 ' Everytliing they do m such perfect taste. 
 How safe you were here to have ortolans 
 for supper!' 
 
 All the little round tables, though their 
 nmnber was infinite, were full. Male 
 groups hmig about; some m attendance on 
 fair dames, some foraging for themselves, 
 some thoughtful and more patient and 
 awaiting a satisfactory future. Never was 
 such an elegant clatter. 
 
 'I wonder where Carisbrooke is,' said 
 Hugo Bohun. ' They say he is wonderfully 
 taken with the beauteous daughter of the 
 house.' 
 
 ' I will back the Duke of Brecon a^'amst
 
 LOTHAIR. 181 
 
 him,' said one of his companions. ' He 
 raved about her at White's yesterday.' 
 
 ' Hem ! ' 
 
 ' The end is not so near as aU that,' said 
 a third wassailer. 
 
 ' I do not know that,' said Hugo Bohun. 
 ' It is a family that marries off quickly. If 
 a fellow is obliged to marry, he always Hkes 
 to marry one of them.' 
 
 ' AMiat of this new star ? ' said liis friend, 
 and he mentioned Lothair. 
 
 ' Oh ! he is too young — not launched. 
 Besides he is gomg to turn Catholic, and 
 I doubt whether that would do in that 
 quarter.' 
 
 ' But he has a greater fortune than any 
 of them.' 
 
 ' Immense ! A man I know, who knows 
 
 another man " and then he be2:an a 
 
 long statistical story about Lothair's re- 
 sources. 
 
 'Have you got any room liere, Hugo?' 
 drawled out Lord St. Aldegonde. 
 
 ' Plenty, and here is my chair.'
 
 182 LOTllAIIi. 
 
 r 
 
 ' On no account ; half of it and some soup 
 will satisfy me.' 
 
 ' I should have thought you would have 
 been with the swells,' said Hugo Bohun. 
 
 ' That does not exactly suit me,' said 
 St. Aldegonde. ' I was ticketed to the 
 Duchess of Salop, but I got a lirstrate 
 substitute with the charm of novelty for 
 her Grace, and sent her in with Lothair.' 
 
 St. Aldegonde was the heir apparent of 
 the wealthiest, if not the most ancient, 
 dulvcdom in the United Kingdom. He was 
 spoiled, but he knew it. Had he been an 
 ordinary being, he would have merely sub- 
 sided into selfishness and caprice, but hav- 
 ing good abilities and a good disposition, 
 he was eccentric, adventurous, and senti- 
 mental. Notwithstanding the apathy which 
 had been engendered by premature experi- 
 ence, St. Aldegonde held extreme opinions, 
 especially on political affairs, being a re- 
 publican of the reddest dye. He was op- 
 posed to all privilege, and indeed to all 
 orders of men, except dukes, who were a
 
 LOTHAIR. 183 
 
 necessity. He was also strongly in favour 
 of the equal division of all property, except 
 land. Liberty depended on land, and the 
 greater the landowners, the greater the 
 liberty of a country. He would hold forth 
 on this topic even with energy, amazed at 
 anyone differing from him ; ' as if a fellow 
 could have too much land,' he w^ould urge 
 vnth. a voice and glance which defied con- 
 tradiction. St. Aldegonde had married for 
 love, and he loved his mfe, but he was 
 strongly in favour of woman's rights and 
 their extremest consequences. It was 
 thought that he had originaMy adopted 
 these latter views -udth the amiable inten- 
 tion of piquing Lady St. Aldegonde ; but 
 if so, he had not succeeded. Beaming with 
 brightness, with the voiee and airiness of a 
 bird, and a cloudless temper, Albertha St. 
 Aldegonde had, from the first hour of her 
 marriage, concentrated her intelligence, 
 which was not mean, on one object ; and 
 that was never to cross her husljand on 
 any conceivable topic. They had been
 
 184 LOTIIAIR. 
 
 married several years and she treated him 
 as a darlmg spoiled child. When he cried 
 for the moon, it was promised him imme- 
 diately; however irrational his proposition, 
 she always assented to it, though generally 
 by tact and vigilance she guided him in 
 the right direction. Nevertheless, St. Al- 
 degonde was sometimes in scrapes ; but 
 then he always went and told his best 
 friend, whose greatest delight was to ex- 
 tricate him from his perplexities and em- 
 barrassments.
 
 LOTHAIE. 185 
 
 CHAPTER XXIL 
 
 Although Lothair was not in the slightest 
 degree shaken in his con\dction, that hfe 
 should be entu'ely religious, he was per- 
 plexed by the ine\T.table obstacles which 
 seemed perpetually to oppose themselves 
 to the practice of his opinions. It was not 
 merely pleasure in its multiform appear- 
 ances that he had to contend against, but 
 business began imperiously to solicit his 
 attention. Every month brought liim 
 nearer to his majority, and the frequent 
 letters from Mr. Putney Giles now began 
 to assume the pressing shape of solicita- 
 tions for personal interviews. He had a 
 long conversation one morning with Father 
 Coleman on this subject, who greatly re- 
 heved him by tlie assurance that a per- 
 fectly rehgious life was one of which the
 
 186 LOTHAIE. 
 
 sovereign purpose was to upliold the in- 
 terests of the Church — of Christ, the 
 Father added after a momentary pause. 
 Business, and even amusement, were 
 not only compatible with such a purpose, 
 but might even be conducive to its ful- 
 filment. 
 
 Mr. Putney Giles reminded Lothair that 
 the attainment of his majority must be 
 celebrated, and in a becoming manner. 
 Preparation, and even considerable prepa- 
 ration, was necessary. There were several 
 scenes of action — some very distant. It 
 was not too early to contemplate arrange- 
 ments. Lothair really must confer with 
 his guardians. They were both noAV in 
 town, the Scotch uncle having come up to 
 attend Parliament. Could they be brought 
 together ? Was it indeed impossible ? If 
 so, who was to give the necessary instruc- 
 tions ? 
 
 It was much more than a year since 
 Lothair had met his uncle, and he did not 
 anticipate much satisfaction from the re-
 
 LOTHAIK. 187 
 
 newal of their intimacy ; but every feeling 
 of propriety demanded that it should be 
 recognised, and to a certain degree re- 
 vived. Lord Culloden was a black 
 Scotchman, tall and lean, with good 
 features, a hard red face and iron grey 
 hair. He Avas a man who shrank from 
 scenes, and he greeted Lothair as if they 
 had only parted yesterday. Lookmg at 
 him with his keen, misentimental, but not 
 unkind, eye, he said, ' Well, sir, I thought 
 }-ou would have been at Oxford.' 
 
 ' Yes, my dear uncle ; but circumstances 
 
 ' "Well, well, I don't want to hear the 
 cause. I am very glad you are not there ; 
 I believe you might as well be at Rome.' 
 
 And then in due course, and after some 
 talk of the past and old times, Lothair 
 referred to the suggestions of Mr. Giles, 
 and hinted at a meeting of his guardians 
 to confer and advise together. 
 
 ' No, no,' said the Scotch peer, sliaking 
 his head; ' I will have iiothing to do with
 
 188 LOTHAIli. 
 
 the Scarlet Lady. Mr. Giles is an able and 
 wortliy man ; lie may well be trusted to 
 draw np a programme for our considera- 
 tion, and indeed it is an affair in which 
 yourself should be most consulted. Let 
 all be done liberally, for you have a great 
 inheritance, and I would be no curmudgeon 
 in these matters.' 
 
 ' Well, my clear uncle, whatever is ar- 
 ranged, I hope you and my cousins will 
 honour and gratify me with your presence 
 throughout the proceedings.' 
 
 ' Well, well, it is not much in my way. 
 You will be havinsr balls and fine ladies. 
 There is no fool like an old fool, they say; 
 but I think, from what I hear, the young 
 fools will beat us in the present day. Only 
 think of young persons going over to the 
 Church of Rome. Why, they are just 
 naturals ! ' 
 
 The organising genius of Mr. Putney 
 Giles had rarely encountered a more fitting 
 theme than the celebration of the impend- 
 ing majority. There was place for all his
 
 LOTHAIR. 189 
 
 energy and talent and resources : a great 
 central inaugui'ation ; sympatlietical fes- 
 tivals and gatherings in half a dozen other 
 counties; the troth, as it were, of a sister 
 kingdom to be pledged ; a vista of balls 
 and banquets, and illuminations and ad- 
 dresses, of ceaseless sports and speeches, 
 and processions ahke endless. 
 
 ' What I wish to effect,' said Mr. Giles, 
 as he was giving his multifarious orders, 
 ' is to produce among all classes an im- 
 pression adequate to the occasion. I wish 
 the lord and the tenantry alike to feel 
 they have a duty to perform.' 
 
 In the meantime, Monsignore Catesby 
 was pressing Lothair to become one of the 
 patrons of a Roman Catholic Bazaar, where 
 Lady St. Jerome and Miss Arundel were 
 to preside over a stall. It was of im- 
 portance to show that charity was not the 
 })rivilege of any particular creed. 
 
 Between his lawyers, and liis monsig- 
 nores, and his arcliitects, Lothair began to 
 get a little harassed, lie was disturbed
 
 190 LOTHAlIi. 
 
 ill his own mind, too, on greater matters, 
 and seemed to feel every day that it 
 was more necessary to take a decided 
 step, and more impossible to decide upon 
 what it shonld be. He frequently saw the 
 Cardinal, who was very kind to him, but 
 who had become more reserved on religious 
 subjects. He had dined more than once 
 with his Eminence, and had met some dis- 
 tinguished prelates and some of his fellow 
 nobles who had been weaned from the 
 errors of their cradle. The Cardinal, 
 perhaps, thought that the presence of these 
 eminent converts would facilitate the pro- 
 gress, perhaps thS decision, of his ward ; 
 but something seemed always to happen to 
 divert Lothair in his course. It might be 
 sometimes apparently a very slight cause, 
 but yet for the time sufficient ; a phrase of 
 Lady Corisancle for example, whoj though 
 she never directly addressed him on the 
 subject, was nevertheless deeply interested 
 in his spiritual condition. 
 
 ' You ought to speak to him, Bertram,' 
 she said one day to her brother very in-
 
 LOTHAIR. 191 
 
 dignantly, as she read a fresh paragraph 
 alhidmg to an mipendmg conversion. ' Yon 
 are his friend. AVhat is the use of friend- 
 ship, if not in such a crisis as this ? ' 
 
 ' I see no use in speaking to a man 
 about love or rehgion,' said Bertram; 
 ' they are both stronger than friendship. 
 If there be any foundation for the para- 
 graph, my interference would be of no 
 avail ; if there be none, I should only 
 make myself ridiculous.' 
 
 Nevertheless, Bertram looked a little 
 more after his friend, and disturbmg the 
 Monsignore, avIio was at breakfast with 
 Lothair one morning, Bertram obstinately 
 outstayed the priest, and then said : ' I 
 tell }-ou what, old fellow, you are rather 
 liippish ; I wisli you were in the House of 
 Connnons.' 
 
 ' So do I,' sidd Lothair, with a sigh ; 
 'but I liave come into everytliing ready- 
 made. I begin to think it very unfor- 
 tunate.' 
 
 ' What arc you going to do with yourself 
 to-da}- ? If you be disengaged, I vote we
 
 192 LOTHAIR. 
 
 dine together at "White's, and then we will 
 go doT\Ti to the House. I mil take you to 
 the smoking-room and introduce you to 
 Bright, and we will trot liim out on 
 primogeniture . ' 
 
 At this moment the servant brought 
 Lothair two letters ; one was an epistle 
 from Father Coleman, meeting Lothair's 
 objections to becoming a patron of the 
 Roman Catholic Bazaar in a very unctuous 
 and exhaustive manner ; and the other 
 from his stud-groom at Oxford, detaihng 
 some of those disagTeeable things which 
 will happen with absent masters who will 
 not answer letters. Lothair loved his 
 stable, and felt particularly anxious to 
 avoid the threatened visit of Father Cole- 
 man on the morrow. His decision was 
 rapid. ' I must go do^m this afternoon to 
 Oxford, my dear fellow. My stable is in 
 confusion. I shall positively return to- 
 morrow and I will dine with you at 
 White's, and we will go to the House of 
 Commons together or go to the play.'
 
 LOTHAIR. 193 
 
 CPIAPTER XXIII. 
 
 Lothair's stables were about three miles 
 from Oxford. Tliey were a rather con- 
 siderable establishment, in which he had' 
 taken much interest, and ha\dng always 
 intended to return to Oxford in the early 
 part of the year, although he had occa,«= 
 sionally sent for a hack or two to London, 
 ]iis stud had been generally maintained. 
 
 The morning after his arrival, he rode 
 over to the stables, where he had ordered 
 his drag to be ready. About a quarter of 
 a mile before he reached his place of des- 
 tination he observed at some little dis- 
 tance a crowd in the road, and, hastening 
 on, perceived as he drew nearer a number 
 of men clustered round a dismantled 
 vehicle, and vainly endeavouring to ex- 
 
 VOL. I. o
 
 104 LOTIIAIR. 
 
 tricate and raise a fallen horse ; its com- 
 panion, panting and foaming, with broken 
 harness bnt apparently uninjured, stand- 
 ing aside and held by a boy. Somewhat 
 apart stood a lady alone. Lothair imme- 
 diately dismounted and approached her, 
 saying, ' I fear you are in trouble, madam. 
 Perhaps I may be of service ? ' 
 
 The lady was rather tall and of a sin- 
 gularly distinguished presence. Her air 
 and her costume alike intimated high 
 breeding and fashion. She seemed quite 
 serene amid the tumult and confusion, and 
 apparently the recent danger. As Lothair 
 spoke, she turned her head to him, which 
 had been at first a little averted, and he 
 beheld a striking countenance, but one 
 wliicli he instantly felt he did not see for 
 the first time. 
 
 She bowed witli dignity to Lothair, and 
 said in a low but distinct voice, ' You are 
 most courteous, sir. We have had a sad 
 accident, but a great escape. Our horses 
 ran away with us, and had it not been for
 
 LOTHAIPv. 195 
 
 that heap of stones I do not see how we 
 could have been saved.' 
 
 'Fortunately my stables are at hand,' 
 said Lothair, ' and I have a carriaice waitmo' 
 for me at this moment, not a (juarter of 
 a mile away. It is at your service, and I 
 will send for it,' and his groom, to whom 
 he gave directions, galloped off. 
 
 There was a shout as the fallen horse 
 was on his legs again, nmch cut, and the 
 carriage shattered and useless. A gentle- 
 man came from the crowd and approached 
 tlie lad}'. He was tall and fair and not 
 ill-favoured, with fine dark eyes and high 
 cheek bones, and still vouiio", thouii:h an 
 enormous beard at tlie first glance gave 
 him an impression of years the burthen 
 of which he really did not bear. His 
 dress, though not vulgar, was richer and 
 more showy than is usual in tliis country, 
 and altogether there was something in his 
 manner whicli, tliouirli calm and full of 
 self-respect, was diiferent from the conven- 
 tional refinement of En.uland. Yet lie 
 
 o 2
 
 196 LOTHAIE. 
 
 was apparently an Englishman, as he said 
 to the lady, ' It is a bad business, but we 
 must be thankful it is no worse. What 
 troubles me is how you are to get back. 
 It will be a terrible walk over these stony 
 roads, and I can hear of no conveyance.' 
 
 ' My husband,' said the lady, as with 
 dignity she presented the person to 
 Lothair. ' This gentleman,' she continued, 
 ' has most kindly offered us the use of his 
 carriage, which is almost at hand.' 
 
 ' Sir, you are a friend,' said the gentle- 
 man. ' I thought there were no horses 
 that I could not master, but it seems I am 
 mistaken. I bought these only yesterday ; 
 took a fancy to them as we were driving 
 about, and bought them of a dealer in the 
 road.' 
 
 ' That seems a clever animal,' said 
 Lothair, pointing to the one uninjured. 
 
 ' Ah ! you like horses ? ' said the gentle- 
 man., 
 
 ' Well, I have some taste that way.' 
 
 ' We are visitors to Oxford,' said the lady.
 
 LOTHAIR. 197 
 
 * Colonel Camplan, like all Americans, is 
 very interested in the ancient parts of 
 England.' 
 
 ' To-day we were going to Blenheim,' 
 said the Colonel, ' but I thought I would 
 try these new tits a bit on a by-road first.' 
 
 ' All's well that ends well,' said Lothair ; 
 ' and there is no reason why you should 
 not fulfil your intention of going to Blen- 
 heim, for here is my carriage, and it is 
 entirely at your service for the whole day, 
 and, indeed, as long as you stay at. Oxford.' 
 
 ' Sir, there requires no coronet on your 
 carriage to tell me you are a nobleman,' 
 said the Colonel. ' I like frank manners, 
 and I like vour team. I know few things 
 that would please me more than to try 
 them.' 
 
 They were four roans, highly bred, with 
 black manes and tails. They had iho, Arab 
 eye, witli arched necks, and seemed proud 
 of themselves and their master. 
 
 ' I do not see why we should not go to 
 Blenheim,' said the Colonel.
 
 198 LOTIIAIR, 
 
 ' Well, not to-day/ said the lady, ' I 
 think. "We have had an escape, but one 
 feels these things a little more afterwards 
 than at the time. I would rather go back 
 to Oxford and be c|uiet; and there is more 
 than one college which you have not yet 
 seen.' 
 
 ' My team is entirely at your service 
 wherever you go,' said Lothair; 'but I 
 cannot venture to drive you to Oxford, for 
 I am there in statu pupillari, and a proctor 
 might arrest us all. But perhaps,' and he 
 approached the lady, ' you will permit me 
 to call on you to-morrow, when I hope I 
 may find you have not suffered by this 
 misadventure.' 
 
 ' We have got a professor dining with us 
 to-day at seven o'clock,' said the Colonel, 
 ' at our hotel, and if you be disengaged and 
 would join the party you would add to the 
 favours which you know so well how to 
 confer.' 
 
 Lothair handed the lady into the car- 
 riasre, the Colonel mounted the box and
 
 LOTHAIR. 109 
 
 took the rIl)boiis like a master, and the 
 four roans trotted away with their precious 
 charo-e and their two i>i"ooms behind with 
 folded arms and imperturbahle counte- 
 nances. 
 
 Lothair watched the equipage until it 
 vanished in the distance. 
 
 ' It is impossiljle to forget that counte- 
 nance,' he said; ' and I fancy I did hear at 
 the time that she had married an American. 
 AVell, I shall meet her at dinner — that is 
 sometlnng.' And he sprang into his saddle.
 
 200 LOTIIAIR. 
 
 CHAPTER XXiy. 
 
 The Oxford Professor, who was the guest 
 of the American Colonel, was quite a young 
 man, of advanced opinions on all subjects, 
 religious, social, and political. He was 
 clever, extremely well-informed, so far as 
 books can make a man knowuig, but un- 
 able to profit even by his hmited expe- 
 rience of life from a restless vanity and 
 overflowing conceit, which prevented him 
 from ever observing or thinking of any- 
 thing but himself. He was gifted with a 
 great command of words, which took the 
 form of endless exposition, varied by sar- 
 casm and passages of ornate jargon. He 
 was the last person one would have ex- 
 pected to recognise in an Oxford professor ; 
 but we hve in times of transition. 
 
 A Parisian man of science, who had
 
 LOTHAIR. 201 
 
 passed liis life in alternately figliting at 
 barricades and discovering planets, had 
 given Colonel Canipian, who had lived 
 much in the French capital, a letter of 
 introduction to the Professor, whose in- 
 vectives against the principles of Enghsh 
 society were hailed by foreigners as repre- 
 sentative of the sentiments of venerable 
 Oxford. The Professor, who was not satis- 
 fied with his home career, and, like many 
 men of his order of mind, had dreams of 
 wild vanity which the New World, they 
 think, can alone realise, was very glad to 
 make the Colonel's acquaintance, which 
 might facilitate his future movements. So 
 he had lionised the distinguished visitors 
 during the last few days over the Uni- 
 versity, and had availed himself of plen- 
 teous opportunities for exhibiting to them 
 his celebrated powers of exposition, his 
 talent for sarcasm, which he deemed peer- 
 less, and several highly finished picturesque 
 passages, whicli were introduced A\ith ex- 
 temporary art.
 
 202 LOTiiAir.. ' 
 
 The Professor ^vas very mucli surprised 
 when he saw Lothair enter the si^iloon at 
 the hoteL He was the last person in 
 Oxford whom he expected to enconnter. 
 Like sedentary men of extreme opinions, 
 he was a social parasite, and instead of in- 
 dnlffinir in his nsual invectives a";ainst 
 peers and princes, finding himself nnex- 
 pectedly about to dine with one of that 
 class, he was content only to dazzle and 
 amuse him. 
 
 Mrs. Campian only entered the room 
 when dinner was announced. She greeted 
 Lothair with calmness but amenity, and 
 took his offered arm. 
 
 'Yon have not suffered, I hope?' said 
 Lothair. 
 
 ' Very little, and through your kindness.' 
 
 It was a peculiar voice, low and musical, 
 too subdued to call thrilling, but a pene- 
 trating voice, so that however ordinary 
 the observation it attracted and impressed 
 attention. But it was in harmony with 
 all her appearance and manner. Lothair
 
 LOTHAIR. 203 
 
 thoiio'lit he had never seen nnvone or any- 
 thing so serene; tlie serenity, however, 
 not of humbleness, nor of merely conscious 
 innocence; it was not devoid of a degree 
 of majesty; what one pictures of Olympian 
 repose. And the countenance was Olym- 
 pian : a Phidian face, with large grey eyes 
 and dark lashes; wonderful hair, abound- 
 ing without art, and gathered together by 
 Grecian fillets. 
 
 The talk was of Oxford, and was at first 
 chiefly maintained by the Colonel and the 
 Professor. 
 
 ' And do you share Colonel Campian's 
 feeling about Old England?' encpired 
 Lothair of his hostess. 
 
 ' The present interests me more tlian tlie 
 past,' said tlie lady, ' and tlic future more 
 than the ju'csent.' 
 
 ' The present seems to me as unintel- 
 ligil^le as the future,' said Lothair. 
 
 ' I think it is intelhgiljle,' said tlie lady, 
 with a faint smile. 'It lias many faults, 
 but not, I think, the want of clearness.'
 
 204 LOTHAIE. 
 
 * I am not a destructive,' said the Pro- 
 fessor, addressing the Colonel but speak- 
 ing loudly ; ' I would maintain Oxford 
 under any circumstances with the neces- 
 sary changes.' 
 
 ' And what are those, might I ask ? ' en- 
 quired Lothair. 
 
 ' In reality not much. I would get rid 
 of the religion.' 
 
 ' Get rid of the religion ! ' said Lothair. 
 
 ' You have got rid of it once,' said the 
 Professor. 
 
 ' You have altered, you have what people 
 call reformed it,' said Lothair, ' but you 
 have not abolished or banished it from the 
 University.' 
 
 ' The shock would not be greater, nor so 
 great, as the change from the Papal to 
 the Reformed Faith. Besides, LTniversities 
 have nothiug to do with religion.' 
 
 ' I thought Universities were universal,' 
 said Lothair, 'and had something to do 
 with everything,' 
 
 ' I cannot conceive any society of any 
 kind without religion,' said the lady.
 
 LOTHAIE. 205 
 
 Lothair glanced at her beautiful brow 
 -uith devotion as she uttered these words. 
 
 Colonel Campian began to talk about 
 horses. After that the Professor proved to 
 him that he was related to Edmund Campian 
 the Jesuit; and then he got to the Gun- 
 powder Plot, which, he was not sure, if 
 successful, might not have beneficially in- 
 fluenced the course of our history. Pro- 
 bably the Irish difficulty would not then 
 have existed. 
 
 'I dislike plots,' said the lady; 'they 
 always fail.* 
 
 ' And whatever their object, are they 
 not essentially immoral ? ' said Lothair. 
 
 ' I have more faith in ideas than in per- 
 sons,' said the lady. 'AVhen a truth is 
 uttered, it will sooner or later be recog- 
 nised. It is only an affair of time. It is 
 better that it should mature and naturally 
 germinate than be forced.' 
 
 ' You would reduce us to lotus-eaters,' 
 exclaimed the Professor. ' Action is natural 
 to man. And what, after all, are conspira-
 
 206 LOTHAIR. 
 
 cles and revolutions but great principles in 
 violent action ? ' 
 
 ' I think you must be an admirer of re- 
 pose,' said Lothair to the lady, in a Ioav 
 voice. 
 
 ' Because I have seen something of action 
 in my life,' said the lady, 'and it is an 
 experience of wasted energies and baffled 
 thouo-hts.' 
 
 When they returned to the saloon, the 
 Colonel and the Professor became interested 
 in the constitution and discipline of the 
 American Universities. Lothair huno; about 
 the lady, who was examining some views 
 of Oxford, and who Avas ascertainiug what 
 she had seen and what she had omitted to 
 visit. They Avere thinking of returning 
 home on the morrow. 
 
 ' Without seeimr Blenheim ? ' said Lo- 
 thair. 
 
 'Without seeing Blenheim,' said the 
 lady; 'I confess to a pang; but I shall 
 always associate with that name yo;ir great 
 kindness to us.'
 
 LOTHAIR. 207 
 
 ' But cannot Ave for once enter into a 
 conspiracy together,' said liOtliair, 'and 
 join in a liappy plot and contrive to go? 
 Besides I conld take you to the private 
 gardens, for the Duke has given me a per- 
 petual order, and they are really exquisite.' 
 
 The lady seemed to smile. 
 
 ' Theodora,' said the Colonel, speaking 
 from the end of the room, ' what have you 
 settled about your train to-morrow? ' 
 
 ' AVe Avant to stay another day here,' said 
 Theodora, ' and go to Blenheun.'
 
 208 LOTHAIE. 
 
 CHAPTER XXV. 
 
 They were in the private gardens at Blen- 
 heim. The sun was brilliant over the 
 ornate and yet picturesque scene. 
 
 ' Beautiful, is it not ? ' exclahned Lo- 
 tliair. 
 
 ' Yes, certainly beautiful,' said Theodora. 
 * But, do you know, I do not feel altogether 
 content in these fine gardens. The prin- 
 ciple of exclusion on which they are all 
 founded is to me depressing. I require in 
 all things sympathy. You would not agree 
 with me in this. The manners of your 
 country are founded on exclusion.' 
 
 ' But surely there are times and places 
 when one would like to be alone ? ' 
 
 ' Without doubt,' said the lady, ' only I 
 do not like artificial loneliness. Even your 
 parks, wliich all the world praises, do not
 
 LOTHAIR. 209 
 
 quite satisfy me. I prefer a forest where 
 all may go — even the wild beasts.' 
 
 * But forests are not at command,' said 
 Lothair. 
 
 ' So you make a solitude and call it peace,' 
 said the lady, with a slight smile. ' For 
 my part, my perfect life would be a large 
 and beautiful village. I admire nature, but 
 I require the presence of humanity. Life 
 in great cities is too exhausting; but in 
 my village there should be air, streams, and 
 beautiful trees, a picturesque scene, but 
 enough of my fellow-creatures to ensure 
 constant duty.' 
 
 ' But the fulfilment of duty and society 
 founded on what you call the principle of 
 exclusion, are not incompatible,' said Lo- 
 thair. 
 
 ' No, but difficult. What should be 
 natural Ijccomes an art; and in every art 
 it is only the few who can be first-rate.' 
 
 ' I have an ambition to be a first-rate 
 artist in that respect,' said Lothair thought- 
 fully. 
 
 VOL. I. I'
 
 210 LOTH AIR. 
 
 ' That does you much honour,' slie re- 
 plied, ' for you necessarily embark in a most 
 painful enterprise. The toiling multitude 
 have their sorrows which, I believe, will 
 some day be softened, and obstacles hard 
 to overcome; but I have always thought 
 that the feeling of satiety, almost inseparable 
 from large possessions, is a surer cause of 
 misery than ungratified desires.' 
 
 ' It seems to me that there is a great 
 deal to do,' said Lothair. 
 
 ' I think so,' said the lady. 
 
 ' Theodora,' said the Colonel, who was a 
 little in advance with the Professor, and 
 turning round his head, ' this reminds me 
 of Mirabel,' and he pointed to the undu- 
 latinsf banks covered with rare shrubs and 
 touching the waters of the lake. 
 
 ' And where is Mirabel ?' said Lothair. 
 
 ' It was a green island in the Adriatic,' 
 said the lady, ' which belonged to Colonel 
 Campian ; we lost it in the troubles. 
 Colonel Campian was very fond of it. I 
 try to persuade him that our home was of
 
 LOTHAIR. 211 
 
 volcanic origin, and has only vanished and 
 subsided into its native bed.' 
 
 ' And were not you fond of it ? ' 
 
 ' I never think of the past,' said the lady. 
 
 ' Oxford is not the first place where I 
 had the pleasure of meetmg you,' Lothair 
 ventured at length to observe. 
 
 ' Yes, we have met before, in Hyde Park 
 Gardens. Our hostess is a clever woman, 
 and has been very kind to some friends of 
 mine.' 
 
 ' And have you seen her lately ? ' 
 
 ' She comes to see us sometimes. We 
 do not live in London, but in the vicinity. 
 We only go to London for the Opera, of 
 which we are devotees. We do not at all 
 enter general society; Colonel Campian 
 only likes people who interest or amuse 
 him, and he is fortunate in having rather a 
 numerous acquaintance of that kind.' 
 
 ' Hare fortune ! ' said Lothair. 
 
 ' Colonel Campian lived a great deal at 
 Paris before we married,' said the lady, 
 ' and in a circle of considerable culture and 
 
 p 2
 
 212 LOTH AIR. 
 
 excitement. He is social, but not conven- 
 tional.' 
 
 ' And you — are you conventional? ' 
 ' Well, I live only for climate and the 
 affections,' said the lady. ' I am fond 
 of society that pleases me, that is, accom- 
 plished and natural and ingenious ; other- 
 wise I prefer being alone. As for atmo- 
 sphere, as I look upon it as the main source 
 of felicity, you may be surprised that I 
 should reside in your country. I should 
 myself like to go to America, but that 
 would not suit Colonel Campian ; and if we 
 are to live in Europe we must live in Eng- 
 land. It is not pleasant to reside in a country 
 where, if you happen to shelter or succour a 
 friend, you may be subject to a domiciliary 
 visit.' 
 
 The Professor stopped to deliver a lec- 
 ture or address on the villa of Hadrian. 
 Nothing could be more minute or pic- 
 turesque than his description of that cele- 
 brated pleasaunce. It was varied by 
 portraits of the Emperor and some of his
 
 LOTHAIR. 213 
 
 companions, and, after a rapid glance at 
 the fortunes of the imperial patriciate, 
 womid up with some conclusions favourable 
 to communism. It was really very clever, 
 and would have made the fortune of a lite- 
 rary society ^,, 
 
 ' I -wonder if they had gravel walks in 
 the villa of Hadrian,' said the Colonel. 
 ' What I admire most in your country, my 
 Lord, are your gravel walks, though that 
 lady would not agree with me in that 
 * mattej*.!, 
 
 ' You are against gravel walks,' said 
 — ^othairi., .-■ ^ » 
 
 ' Well, I,.cannot bring myself to believe 
 thi?f tl^^i^ad- gravel walks"^^ the garden 
 of Eden,' said the lady. 
 
 They had- -<i<: repast at AVoodstock, too 
 late for lunclieon, tod^arly for dirmer, but 
 which it was agrlmiL should serve as the 
 latter meal. 
 
 ' That suits me exactly,' said the lady ; 
 • I am a great foe to dinners, and indeed to 
 all meals. 1 thuik when the good time
 
 214 LOTHAIB. 
 
 comes we shall give up eating in public, 
 except perhaps fruit on a green bank with 
 music' 
 
 It was a rich twilight as they drove 
 home, the lady leaning back in the carriage 
 silent. Lothair sat opposite to her, and 
 gazed upon a countenance on which the 
 moon began to glisten, and which seemed 
 unconscious of all human observation. 
 
 He had read of such countenances in 
 Grecian dreams : in Corinthian temples, 
 in fanes of Ephesus, in the radiant shadow 
 of divine groves.
 
 LOTHAIR. 215 
 
 CHAPTER XXVI. 
 
 WuEN they had arrived at the hotel, Colo- 
 nel Campian proposed that they should 
 come in and have some coffee, but Theodora 
 did not enforce this suggestion, and Lothair 
 feeling that she might be wearied grace- 
 fully, though unwilhngly, waved the pro- 
 posal. Remembering that on the noon of 
 the morrow they were to depart, with a 
 happy inspiration, as he said farewell, he 
 asked permission to accompany them to 
 the station. 
 
 Lothair walked away with the Professor, 
 who seemed in a conservative vein, and 
 graciously disposed to make several con- 
 cessions to the customs of an ancient coun- 
 try. Though opposed to the land laws, he 
 \\'(->ukl o}:e:'ate gradually, and gave Lothair 
 
 Vol. r. * p 4
 
 216 LOTHAIR. 
 
 more than one receipt how to save the 
 aristocracy. Lothair would have preferred 
 talking about the lady they had just 
 quitted, but as he soon found the Professor 
 could really give him no information about 
 her he let the subject drop. 
 
 But not out of his own mind. He was 
 glad to be alone and brood over the last 
 two days. They were among the most 
 interesting of his life. He had encountered 
 a character different from any he had yet 
 met, had listened to new views, and his 
 intelligence had been stimulated by re- 
 marks made casually in easy conversation, 
 and yet to him pregnant with novel and 
 sometimes serious meaning. The voice, 
 too, lingered in his ear, so hushed and 
 deep and yet so clear and sweet. He 
 leant over his mantelpiece in teeming 
 reverie. 
 
 ' And she is profoundly religious,' he 
 said to himself ; ' she can conceive no kind 
 of society without religion. She has ar- 
 rived at the same conclusion as myself.
 
 LOTH AIR. 217 
 
 What a privilege it would be to speak to 
 her on such subjects ! ' 
 
 After a restless night the morrow came. 
 About eleven o'clock Lothair ventured to 
 call on his new friends. The lady was 
 alone ; she was standing !)}• the window 
 reading an Italian newspaper, which she 
 folded up and placed aside when Lothair 
 was announced. 
 
 ' We propose to walk to the station,' said 
 Theodora ; ' the servants have gone on. 
 Colonel Campian has a particular aversion 
 to moving with any luggage. He restricts 
 me to this,' she said, pointing to her satchel, 
 in whicli she had placed the foreign news- 
 paper, 'and for that he will not be respon- 
 sible.' 
 
 'It was most kind of you to permit me 
 to accompany you this morning,' said 
 Lothair ; ' I should have been grieved to 
 have parted abruptly last night.' 
 
 ' I. could not refuse such a request,' said 
 the lady ; ' but do you know I never like 
 to say farewell, even for four-and-twenty 
 hours. One .should vnnisli like a spirit.'
 
 218 LOTHAIR. 
 
 'Then I have erred,' said Lothair, 
 'against your rules and principles.' 
 
 ' Say my fancies,' said the lady, ' my 
 humours, my whims. Besides this is not 
 a farewell. You will come and see us. 
 Colonel Campian tells me you have pro- 
 mised to give us that pleasure.' 
 
 ' It will be the greatest pleasure to me,' 
 said Lothair ; ' I can conceive nothing 
 greater.' And then hesitating a little, and 
 a little blushing, he added, ' When do you 
 think I might come ? ' 
 
 ' Whenever you like,' said the lady, ' you 
 will always find me at home. My life is 
 this : I ride every day very early, and. far 
 into the country, so I return tamed some 
 two or three hours after noon, and devote 
 myself to my fi'iends. We are at home 
 every evening, except opera nights, and 
 let me tell you, because it is not the custom 
 generally among your compatriots, we are 
 always at home on Sundays.' 
 
 Colonel Campian entered tlie room ; the 
 moment of departure was at hand, Lothair
 
 '. LOTHAIE. 219 
 
 felt the consolation of being their com- 
 panion to the station. He had once hoped 
 it might be possible to be their companion 
 in the train : but he was not encouraged. 
 
 ' Railways have elevated and softened 
 the lot of man,' said Theodora, ' and Colonel 
 Campian views them with almost a re- 
 ligious sentiment. But I cannot read in a 
 railroad, and the human voice is distressing 
 to me amid the whirl and the whistling, 
 and the wild panting of the loosened me- 
 gatheria who drag us. And then those 
 terrible grottoes — it is quite a descent of 
 Proserpine ; so I have no resources but my 
 thoughts.' 
 
 ' And surely that is sufficient,' murmured 
 Lothair. 
 
 ' Not when the past is expelled,' said the 
 lady. 
 
 ' But the future ? ' said Lothair. 
 
 ' Yes, that is ever interesting, but so 
 vague that it sometimes induces slumber.' 
 ^ The bell sounded, Lothair handed the 
 lady to her compartment.
 
 220 LOTH AIR. 
 
 ' Our Oxford visit,' she said, ' has been a 
 great success, and mainly through you.' 
 
 The Colonel was profuse in his cordial 
 farewells, and it seemed they would never 
 have ended had not the train moved. 
 
 Lothair remained upon the platform 
 until it was out of sight, and then ex- 
 claimed, 'Is it a dream, or shall ] ever 
 see her again ?'
 
 LOTUAm. 221 
 
 CHAPTER XXVII. 
 
 LoTHAiR reached London late in the after- 
 noon. Among the notes and cards and 
 letters on his table was a long and pressing 
 despatch from Mr. Putney Giles awaiting 
 his judgment and decision on many points. 
 ' The central inauguration, if I may use 
 the term,' said Mr. Putney Giles, ' is com- 
 paratively easy. It is an affair of expense 
 and of labour — great labour ; I may say un- 
 remitting labour. But your Lordship -will 
 observe the other points are not mere 
 points of expense and labour. We have 
 to consult the feelings of several counties 
 where your Lordship cannot be present, 
 at least certainly not on this occasion, and 
 yet where an adequate recognition of those 
 sentiments which ought to exist between 
 the proprietor and all classes connected
 
 222 LOTH AIR. 
 
 with hiin ought to be secured. Then 
 Scotland : Scotland is a very difficult busi- 
 ness to manage. It is astonishing how the 
 sentiment lingers in that country connected 
 with its old independence. I really am 
 quite surprised at it. One of your Lord- 
 ship's most important tenants wrote to me 
 only a few days back, that great dissatisfac- 
 tion would prevail among your Lordship's 
 friends and tenantry in Scotland, if that 
 country on this occasion were placed on the 
 same level as a mere English county. It 
 must be recognised as a kingdom. I almost 
 think it would be better if we could per- 
 suade Lord Culloden not to attend the 
 English inauguration, but remain in the 
 kingdom of Scotland, and take the chair 
 and the lead throughout the festal cere- 
 monies. A peer of the realm, and your 
 Lordship's guardian, would impart some- 
 thing of a national character to the pro- 
 ceedings, and this with a judicious em- 
 blazoning on some of the banners of the 
 royal arms of Scotland might have a con-
 
 1.0TIIAIR. 223 
 
 ciliatory effect. One should always con- 
 ciliate. But your Lordship on all these 
 points, and especially with reference to 
 Lord Culloden, must be a much better 
 judge than I am.' 
 
 Lothair nearly gave a groan. ' I almost 
 wish,' he thought, ' my minority would 
 never end. I am quite satisfied with 
 things as they are. What is the kingdom 
 of Scotland to me, and all these counties? 
 I almost begin to feel that satiety which she 
 said was inseparable from vast possessions.' 
 
 A letter from Bertram reminding him 
 that he had not dined at White's as he had 
 promised, and suggesting some new ar- 
 rangement, and another from Monsignore 
 Catesby earnestly urging him to attend a 
 most peculiar and solemn function of the 
 Church next Sunday evening, where the 
 Cardinal would officiate and preach, and in 
 which Lady St. Jerome and Miss Arundel 
 were particularly interested, did not re- 
 store his equanimity. 
 
 A diimer at White's ! He did not think
 
 224 LOTH AIR. 
 
 he could stand a dinner at ^Miite's. In- 
 deed he was not sure that he could stand 
 any dinner anywhere, especially in this hot 
 weather. There was a good deal in what 
 she said : ' One ought to eat alone.' 
 
 The ecclesiastical function was a graver 
 matter. It had been long, contemplated, 
 often talked about, and on occasions looked 
 forward to by him even with a certain 
 degree of eagerness. He wished he had 
 had an opportunity of speaking with her 
 on these matters. She was eminently re- 
 ligious; that she had voluntarily avowed. 
 And he felt persuaded that no light or 
 thoug-htless remark could fall from those 
 lips. He wondered to what Church she 
 belonged ? Protestant or Papal ? Her 
 husband, being an American, was probably 
 a Protestant, but he was a gentleman of 
 the South and with nothing puritanical 
 about him. She was a European, and 
 probably of a Latin race. In all likelihood 
 she was a Roman Catholic. 
 
 It was Wednesday evening, and his valet
 
 LOTHAIK. 225 
 
 reminded hiin that he was engaged to dine 
 with Lord and Lady Montairy. 
 
 Lothair sighed. He was so absorbed 
 by his new feelings, that he shrunk from 
 society with a certain degree of aver- 
 sion. He felt it quite out of liis power to 
 fulfil his engagement. He sent an excuse. 
 It was Lothair's first excuse. In short, he 
 ' threw over ' the Montairys, to whom he 
 was so much attached, whom he so much 
 admired, and whose society he had hitherto 
 so highly prized. 
 
 To ' throw over ' a host is the most 
 heinous of social crimes. It ouglit never 
 to be pardoned. It disjoints a party, often 
 defeats the combinations which miii'lit af- 
 feet the results of a season, and generally 
 renders the society incoherent and unsatis- 
 factory. If the outrage could ever be con- 
 doned it miglit be in the instance of a 
 young man very inexperienced, the victim 
 of some unexpected condition of nervous 
 feelings over which the defaulter has really 
 no control. 
 
 VOL. I. Q
 
 226 LOTHAIR. 
 
 It was evening, and the restless Lotliair 
 walked forth without a purpose, and in a 
 direction which he rarely visited. ' It is a 
 wonderful place,' said he, 'this London; a 
 nation, not a city; with a population greater 
 than some kingdoms, and districts as dif- 
 ferent as if they were under different go- 
 vernments and spoke diiferent languages. 
 And what do I know of it? I have been 
 living here six months, and my life has 
 been passed in a park, two or three squares, 
 and half a dozen streets ! ' 
 
 So he walked on and soon crossed Ox- 
 ford Street, like the Rhine a natural boun- 
 dary, and then got into Portland Place, 
 and then found himself in the New Road, 
 and then he hailed a cruising Hansom, 
 which he had previously observed was 
 w^ell-horsed. 
 
 "Tis the gondola of London,' said Lo- 
 tliair as he sprang in. 
 
 ' Drive on till I tell you to stop.' 
 
 And the Hansom drove on, throuo'Ii 
 endless boulevards, some bustling, somo
 
 LOTH AIR. 227 
 
 t 
 
 
 
 dino'v, some tawdry and flarino;. some me- 
 lanclioly and mean ; rows of garden gods, 
 planted on the Avails of yards full of vases 
 and divinities of concrete, huge railway 
 halls, monster hotels, dissenting chapels in 
 the form of Gothic churches, quaint ancient 
 almshouses that were once built in the 
 fields, and tea-gardens and stingo houses 
 and knackers' yards. They were in a dis- 
 trict far beyond the experience of Lothair, 
 which indeed had been exhausted when he 
 had passed Eustonia, and from that he had 
 been long separated. The way was broad 
 but ill-lit, with houses of irregular size but 
 generally of low elevation, and sometimes 
 detached in smoked-dried gardens. The 
 road was becoming a bridge which crossed 
 a canal, with barges and wharves and tim- 
 ber yards, when their progress Avas arrested 
 by a crowd. It seemed a sort of proces- 
 sion; there was a banner, and the lamp- 
 light fell upon a religious emblem. Lo- 
 tliair was interested, and desired the driver 
 not to endeavour to advance. The proces- 
 
 U 2
 
 228 LOTHAIR. 
 
 sion was crossing the road and entering a 
 building. 
 
 ' It's a Roman Catholic chapel,' said a 
 bystander in answer to Lothair. ' I be- 
 lieve it is a meeting about one of their 
 schools. They always have banners.' 
 
 ' I think I Avill get out,' said Lothair to 
 his driver. ' This I suppose will pay your 
 fare.' 
 
 The man stared with delight at the sove- 
 reign in his astonished pahn, and in grati- 
 tude suggested that he should remain and 
 wait for the gentleman, but the restless 
 Lothair declined the proposal. 
 
 ' Sir, sir,' said the man, leaning down his 
 head as low as possible from his elevated 
 seat, and speakmg in a hushed voice, ' you 
 are a real gentleman. Do you know what 
 all this is ? ' 
 
 ' Yes, yes; some meeting about a Roman 
 Catholic school.' 
 
 The man shook his head. ' You are a 
 real gentleman, and I will tell you the 
 truth. They meet about the schools of the
 
 LOTHAIR. 229 
 
 order of St. Joseph — over the left — it is a 
 Fenian meeting.' 
 
 * A Fenian meetins: ! ' 
 
 'Ay, ay, and you cannot enter that 
 place without a ticket. Just you try ! How- 
 ever, if a gentleman like you wants to go, 
 you shall have my ticket,' said the cab- 
 driver ; ' and here it is. And may I di'ive 
 to-morrow as true a gentleman as I have 
 driven to-day.' 
 
 So saying he took a packet from his 
 breast pocket, and opening it offered to 
 Lothair a green shp of paper which was 
 willingly accepted. ' I should like above 
 all things to go,' he said, and he blended 
 with the rear of those who were entering the 
 building. The collector of the tickets stared 
 at Lothair and scrutinised his pass, but all 
 was in order, and Lothair was admitted. 
 
 He passed through a house and a yard, 
 at the bottom of which was a ratlier spa- 
 cious building. When he entered it, he 
 saw in an instant it was not a chapel. It 
 was what is called a temperance hall, a
 
 230 LOTHAIR 
 
 room to be liired for j^iiblic assemblies, 
 with a raised platform at the end, on which 
 were half a dozen men. The hall was 
 tolerably full, and Lothair came in among 
 the last. There were some children sittinc; 
 on a form placed against the wall of the 
 room, each with a bun which kept them 
 quiet ; the banner belonged to this school, 
 and was the banner of St. Joseph. 
 
 A man dressed like a priest, and knoAvn as 
 Father O'Molloy, came forward. He was 
 received with signs of much sjinpathy, suc- 
 ceeded by complete silence. He addressed 
 them in a popular and animated style on 
 the advantages of education. Thev knew 
 what that was, and then they cheered. 
 Education taught them to know their 
 rights. But what was the use of knowing 
 their rights unless they enforced them? 
 That was not to be clone by prayer books 
 but by something else, and something else 
 wanted a subscription. 
 
 This was the object of the meeting and 
 the burthen of all the speeches which
 
 LOTHAIR. 231 
 
 followed, and which were progressively 
 more outspoken than the adroit introduc- 
 tory discourse. The Saxon was denounced, 
 sometimes with coarseness, but sometimes 
 in terms of j)icturesque passion ; the vast 
 and extending organisation of the brotlier- 
 hood was enlarged on, the great results 
 at hand intimated ; the necessity of imme- 
 diate exertion on the part of every in- 
 dividual pressed with emphasis. All these 
 "^dews and remarks received from the audi- 
 ence an encouraging response; and when 
 Lothair observed men going round with 
 boxes, and heard the clink of coin, he felt 
 very embarrassed as to what he should do 
 when asked to contribute to a fund raised 
 to stimulate and support rebellion against 
 his Sovereign. He regretted the rash 
 restlessness which had involved him in such 
 a position. 
 
 The collectors approached Lothair, who 
 was standing at the end of the room o])[)o- 
 site to the platform, where the space Avas 
 not crowded.
 
 232 LOTHAIR. 
 
 ' I should like to speak to Father O'Mol- 
 loy,' said Lothair ; ' he is a priest and will 
 understand my views.' 
 
 ' He is a priest here,' said one of the 
 collectors with a sardonic laugh, ' but I am 
 giad to say you will not find his name in 
 the du-ectory. Father O'Molloy is on the 
 platform and engaged.' 
 
 ' If you want to speak to the Father, 
 speak from where you are,' said the other 
 collector. ' Here, silence ! a gentleman 
 wants to address the meeting.' 
 
 And there was silence, and Lothair felt 
 extremely embarrassed, but he was not 
 wanting, though it was the first time in 
 his life that he had addressed a pubhc 
 meeting. 
 
 ' Gentlemen,' said Lothair, ' I really had 
 no wish to intrude upon you; all I desired 
 was to speak to Father O'Molloy. I wished 
 to tell him that it would have given me 
 pleasure to subscribe to these schools. I 
 am not a Roman Catholic, but I respect 
 the Roman Catholic religion. But I can
 
 LOTHAIR. 233 
 
 do nothing that "\^'ill unply the shghtest 
 sanction of the opinions I have lieard 
 expressed this evening. For yonr own 
 
 sakes ' bnt here a yell arose which for 
 
 ever dro"\vned his voice. 
 
 ' A spy, a spy ! ' was the general excla- 
 mation. ' AVe are betrayed ! Seize him ! 
 Knock him over ! ' and the whole meeting 
 seemed to have turned their backs on the 
 platform and to be advancing on the un- 
 fortunate Lotliah'. Two of the leaders on 
 the platform at the same time leapt down 
 from it, to direct as it were the enraired 
 populace. 
 
 But at this moment a man who had 
 been in the lower part of the hall, in the 
 vicinity of Lothair and standing alone, 
 pushed forward, and by his gestures and 
 general mien arrested somewhat the crowd, 
 so that the two leaders who leapt from the 
 platform and bustled through the crowd 
 came in contact with him. 
 
 The stranger was evidently not of the 
 class or country of the rest assembled. He
 
 234 LOTH AIR. 
 
 had a military appearance, and spoke with 
 a foreiirn accent when he said, ' This is no 
 spy. Keep yonr people off.' 
 
 ' And who are yon ? ' cnqnired the leader 
 thns addressed. 
 
 ' One accnstomecl to be obeyed,' said the 
 stranger. 
 
 ' Yon may be a spy yourself,' said the 
 leader. 
 
 ' I will not undertake to say that there 
 are no spies in this room,' said the stranger, 
 ' but this person is not one, and anybody 
 \A\o touches this person will touch this per- 
 son at his peril. Stand off, men ! ' And 
 they stood off. The wave retreated back- 
 ward, leaving the two leaders in - front. 
 A couple of hundred men, a moment before 
 apparently full of furious passion and 
 ready to take refuge in the violence of fear, 
 were cowed by a single human being. 
 
 ' Why, you are not afraid of ong man ? ' 
 said the leaders, ashamed of their following. 
 ' Wliatever l^etides, no one unknown shall 
 leave this room, or it will be Bow Street 
 to-morrow morninij:.'
 
 LOTHAIR. 2o5 
 
 ' Nevertheless,' said tlie stranger, ' two 
 iinkno"UTi men will leave tins room and 
 with general assent. If anvone touches this 
 person or myself I will shoot him dead,' and 
 he drew out his revolver, ' and as for the 
 rest, look at that,' he added, giving a paper 
 to the leader of the Fenian Lodge, ' and 
 then give it me back again,' 
 
 The leader of tlie Fenian Lodge glanced 
 at the paper; he grew pale, then scarlet, 
 folded the paper with great care and re- 
 turned it reverentially to the stranger, then 
 looking round to the assembly and waving 
 his hand he said, ' All right, the gentlemen 
 are to go.' 
 
 ' Well, you have got out of a scrape, 
 young sir,' said the stranger to Lotliair when 
 they had escaped from the hall. 
 
 ' And how can I express my gratitude to 
 you?' Lothair replied. 
 
 ' Poh ! ' said the stranger, ' a mere affair 
 of common duty. l>ut what surprises me 
 is how you got your ])ass ticket.' 
 
 Lothair told him all.
 
 236 LOTHAIR. 
 
 i 7 
 
 They manage their affairs in general 
 wonderfully close,' said the stranger, 'but 
 I have no opinion of them. I have just 
 returned from Ireland, where I thought I 
 would go and see what they really are 
 after. No real business in them. Their 
 treason is a fairy tale, and their sedition a 
 child talking in its sleep.' 
 
 They walked together about half a mile, 
 and then the stranger said, ' At the end of 
 this we shall get into the City Road, and the 
 land agam of omnibus and pubhc convey- 
 ances, and I shall wish you good night.' 
 
 ' But it is distressing to me to part thus,' 
 said Lothair. ' Pray let me call and pay 
 my respects to my benefactor.' 
 
 ' No claim to any such title,' said the 
 stranger; ' I am always glad to be of use. 
 I will not trouble you to call on me, for, 
 frankly, I have no wish to increase the 
 circle of my acquaintance. So, good night ; 
 and as you seem to be fond of a little life, 
 take my advice and never go about un- 
 armed.'
 
 LOTHAIR. 237 
 
 CHAPTER XXYIII. 
 
 The Fenian adventure furnished tlie dis- 
 traction -wliich Lotliaii' required. It broke 
 that absorbing spell of sentiment which is 
 the delicious but enervating privilege of 
 the youthful heart; yet when Lothair woke 
 in the morning from his well-earned slum- 
 l)ers, the charm returned, and he fell at 
 once into a reverie of Behnont, and a 
 speculation when he miglit really pay his 
 first visit there. Not to-day — that was 
 clearly out of the question. They had 
 separated only yesterday, and yet it seemed 
 an age, and the adventure of another world. 
 There are moods of feeling which defy 
 alike time and space. 
 
 But on the morrow, Friday, lie miglit 
 venture to go. But then would to-morrow 
 ever come ? It seemed impossible. How
 
 238 LOTH AIR. 
 
 were the intervening hours to pass? The 
 world, however, was not so void of re- 
 sources as himself, and had already ap- 
 propriated his whole day. And, first, 
 Monsignore Catesby came to breakfast with 
 him, talking of everythmg that was agree- 
 able or interesting, but in reality bent on 
 securing his presence at the unpending 
 ecclesiastical ceremony of high import, 
 where his guardian was to officiate, and 
 where the foundation was to be laid of the 
 reconcihation of all Churches in the bosom 
 of the true one. Then in the afternoon 
 Lothair had been long engaged to a match 
 of pigeon shooting, in which pastime Ber- 
 tram excelled. It seemed there was to be 
 a most exciting sweepstakes to-day, in 
 which the floAver of England were to com- 
 pete ; Lothair among them, and for the 
 first time. 
 
 This great exploit of arms was to be 
 accomplished at the Castle in the Air, a 
 fantastic villa near the banks of the 
 Thames, belonsrinir to the Duke of Brecon. 
 
 / CD Cj
 
 LOTHAIE. 239 
 
 His Grace had been ofFended by the con- 
 duct or the comments of the outer world, 
 wliich hi his pastime had thwarted or dis- 
 pleased him in the free life of Battersea. 
 The Duke of Brecon was a gentleman 
 easily ofFended, but not one of those who 
 ever confined their sense of injury to mere 
 words. He prided himself on ' putting 
 down ' any individual or body of men who 
 chose to come into collision with him. 
 And so in the present instance he formed a 
 club of pigeon shooters, and lent them his 
 A'illa for their rendezvous and enjoyment. 
 The society was exquisite, exclusive, and 
 OTeatlv souo'ht after. And the fine ladies, 
 tempted of course by the beauty of the 
 scene, honoured and inspired the compe- 
 ting confederates by their presence. 
 
 The Castle in the Ah* was a colossal 
 thatched cottage, bidlt b}^ a favourite of 
 Kmg George the Fourtli. It was full of 
 mandarins and })agodas and green dragons, 
 and ])apered witli l)irds of many colours 
 and witli vast tails. The ii;ardens were
 
 240 LOTHAIR. 
 
 pretty, and the grounds park-like, with 
 some noble cedars and some huge walnut 
 
 trees. 
 
 The Duke of Brecon was rather below 
 the middle size, but he had a singularly 
 athletic frame not devoid of symmetry. 
 His head was well placed on his broad 
 shoulders, and his mien was commanding. 
 He was narrow-minded and prejudiced, 
 but acute, and endowed with an unbending 
 will. He was an eminent sportsman, and 
 brave even to brutality. His boast was 
 that he had succeeded in everything he 
 had attempted, and he would not admit the 
 possibihty of future failure. Though still 
 a very young man he had won the Derby, 
 training his own horse; and he successfiiUy 
 managed a fine stud in defiance of the 
 ring, whom it was one of the secret objects 
 of his life to extirpate. Though his man- 
 ner to men was peremptory, cold, and hard, 
 he might be described as popular, for there 
 existed a superstitious behef in his judg- 
 ment, and it was known that in some in-
 
 LOTHAIR. 241 
 
 stances when he had been consulted he 
 had given more than advice. It could not 
 be said that he was beloved, but he was 
 feared and highly considered. Parasites 
 were necessary to him, though he despised 
 them. 
 
 The Duke of Brecon was an avowed 
 admirer of Lady Corisande, and was in- 
 timate with her family. The Duchess 
 liked him much, and was often seen at ball 
 or assembly on his arm. He had such 
 excellent principles, she said; was so 
 straightforward, so true and firm. It was 
 whispered that even Lady Corisande had 
 remarked that the Duke of Brecon was the 
 only young man of tlie time who liad 
 ' character.' The truth is the Duke, though 
 absolute and hard to men, could be soft 
 and deferential to women, and such an 
 exception to a general disposition has a 
 charm. It was said also that he had, when 
 requisite, a bewitching smile. 
 
 If there were any thing or any person 
 in the world that St. Aldcgonde hated more 
 
 VOL. I. R
 
 2-12 LOTH AIR. 
 
 than another it was the Duke of Brecon. 
 Why St. Aldegonde hated him was not 
 very clear, for they had never crossed each 
 other, nor were the reasons for his detesta- 
 tion, which he occasionally gave, entirely 
 satisfactory : sometimes it was because the 
 Duke drove piebalds ; sometimes because he 
 had a large sum in the Funds, which St. 
 Aldegonde thought disgraceful for a Duke ; 
 sometimes because he wore a particular 
 hat, though, with respect to this last allega- 
 tion, it does not follow that St. Aldegonde 
 was justified in his criticism, for in aU these 
 matters St. Aldegonde was hunself very 
 deficient, and had once strolled up St. 
 James's Street with his dishevelled locks 
 cro^\^led with a wide-awake. Whatever 
 might be the cause, St. Aldegonde generally 
 wound up — ' I tell you what, Bertha, if 
 Corisande marries that fellow I have made 
 up my mmd to go to the Indian Ocean. 
 It is a country I never have seen, and Pinto 
 tells me you cannot do it well under five 
 years.'
 
 LOTHAIR. 243 
 
 ' I hope you will take me, Granville, with 
 you,' said Lady St. Aldegonde, 'because 
 it is highly probable Corisande will many 
 the Duke ; mamma, you know, hkes him so 
 much.' 
 
 'Why cannot Corisande marry Caris- 
 brooke,' said St. Aldegonde, pouting; ' he is 
 a really good fellow, much better lookmg, 
 and so far as land is concerned, which after 
 all is the only thing, has as large an estate 
 as the Duke.' 
 
 ' Well, these things depend a httle upon 
 taste,' said Lady St. Aldegonde. 
 
 ' No, no,' said St. Aldegonde; ' Corisande 
 must marry Carisbrooke. Your father 
 would not like mj^ gohig to the Lidian Ar- 
 chipelago and not returning for iiA'e years, 
 perhaps never returning. Why should 
 Corisande break up our society? — why are 
 people so selfish ? I never conld go to Bren- 
 tham again if the Duke of Brecon is always 
 to be there, giving his opinion, and being 
 what your mother calls, "straightforAvard" — 
 I hate a straightforward fellow. As Pinto
 
 244 LOTHAIR. 
 
 says, if every man were straightforward in 
 his opinions, there would be no conversa- 
 tion. The fun of talk is to find out what a 
 man really thinks, and then contrast it with 
 the enormous lies he has been telhng all 
 dinner, and, perhaps, all his life.' 
 
 It was a favourable day for the Castle 
 in the Air ; enough, but not too much sun, 
 and a gentle breeze. Some pretty feet, hot 
 alone, were sauntering in the gardens, some 
 pretty lips lingered in the rooms sipping 
 tea ; but the mass of the fair visitors, mar- 
 vellously attired, were assembled at the 
 scene of action, seated on chairs and in 
 groups, which assumed something of the 
 form of an amphitheatre. There were 
 many gentlemen in attendance on them, or 
 independent spectators of the sport. The 
 field was large, not less than forty com- 
 petitors, and comprising many of the best 
 shots in England. The struggle, therefore, 
 was long and ably maintained ; but, as the 
 end approached, it was evident that the 
 contest would be between Bertram, Lothair, 
 and the Duke of Brecon.
 
 LOTH AIR. '^-irt 
 
 Lady St. Aldegonde and Lady ]\Iontairy 
 were there and their unmarried sister. The 
 married sisters were liighly excited in 
 •favour of their brother, but Lady Corisande 
 said nothing. At last Bertram missed a 
 bird, or rather his bird, which he had hit, 
 escaped, and fell beyond the enclosure. 
 Lothau- was more successful, and it seemed 
 that it might be a tie between him and the 
 Duke. His Grace, when called, advanced 
 with confident composure, and apparently 
 killed both his birds, when, at this moment, 
 a doer rushed forward and chased one of the 
 mortally struck pigeons. The blue-rock, 
 which was content to die by the hand of a 
 Duke, would not deign to be worried by a 
 dog, and it frantically moved its expiring 
 ■vvings, scaled the paling, and died. So 
 Lothair won the prize. 
 
 * Well,' said Lady Montairy to Lothair, 
 'as Bertram was not to win I am glad it 
 
 was you.' 
 
 ' And you will not congratulate me?' said 
 Lothair to Lady Corisande.
 
 246 LOTIIAIR. 
 
 She rather shook her head. ' A touma- 
 ment of doves,' she said. ' I would rather 
 see you all m the lists of Ashby.' 
 
 Lothair had to dine this day with one of 
 the vanquished. This was Mr. Brancepeth, 
 celebrated for his dinners, still more for his 
 guests. Mr. Brancepeth was a grave young 
 man. It was supposed that he was always 
 meditating over the arrangement of his 
 menus, or the skilful means by which he 
 could assemble together the right persons 
 to partake of them. Mr. Brancepeth had 
 attained the highest celebrity in his pecu- 
 liar career. To dine with Mr. Brancepeth 
 was a social incident that was mentioned. 
 Koyalty had consecrated his banquets, and a 
 youth of note was scarcely a graduate of 
 society who had not been his guest. There 
 was one person however who, in tliis re- 
 spect, had not taken his degree, and, as 
 always happens under such circumstances, 
 he was the individual on whom Mr. Bran- 
 cepeth was most desirous to confer it; and 
 this was St. Aldegonde. In vain Mr.
 
 LOTHAIR. 247 
 
 Brancepeth had approached him with vast 
 cards of invitation to hecatombs, and with 
 insinuating little notes to dinners sans 
 fagon; proposals which the presence of 
 princes might ahnost construe into a com- 
 mand, or the presence of some one even 
 more attractive than princes must invest 
 with irresistible charm. It was all in vain. 
 ' Not that I dislike Brancepeth,' said St. 
 Aldegonde ; ' I rather like him : I like a 
 man who can do only one thing, but does 
 that well. But then I hate dinners.' 
 
 But the determined and the persevering 
 need never despair of gaining their object in 
 this world. And this very day, riding 
 home from the Castle in the Air, Mr. Bran- 
 cepeth overtook St. Aldegonde, who was 
 lounging about on a rough Scandina\ian 
 cob, as dishevelled as himself, listless and 
 groomless. After riding togetlier for 
 twenty minutes, St. Aldegonde informed 
 Mr. Brancepeth, as was his general custom 
 with his companions, that he was bored 
 to very extinction, and that he did not
 
 248 LOTHAIR. 
 
 know what he should do with himself for 
 the rest of the day. ' If I could only get 
 Pinto to go with me, I think I would run 
 down to the Star and Garter or perhaps 
 to Hampton Court.' 
 
 ' You will not be able to get Pinto to- 
 day,' said Mr. Brancepeth, 'for he dines 
 with me.' 
 
 'What an unlucky fellow I am!' ex- 
 claimed St. Aldegonde, entirely to himself. 
 ' I had made up my mind to dine with 
 Pinto to-day.' 
 
 ' And why should you not ? Why not 
 meet Pinto at my house?' 
 
 ' Well, that is not in my way,' said St. 
 Aldegonde, but not in a decided tone. 
 ' You know I do not like strangers, and 
 crowds of wine-glasses, and what is called 
 all the delicacies of the season.' 
 
 ' You will meet no one that you do not 
 know and like. It is a little dinner I made 
 for ' and he mentioned Lothair. 
 
 ' I like Lothair,* said St. Aldegonde, 
 dreamily. ' He is a nice boy.'
 
 LOTHAIE. 249 
 
 ' Well, you will have him and Pinto to 
 yourself.' 
 
 The large fish languidly rose and swal- 
 lowed the bait, and the exultmg Mr. 
 Brancepeth cantered off to Hill Street to 
 give the necessary instructions. 
 
 Mr. Pinto was one of the marvels of 
 English society; the most sought after of 
 all its members, though no one could tell 
 you exactly why. He Avas a little oily 
 Portuguese, middle-aged, corpulent, and 
 somewhat bald, with dark eyes of sympathy, 
 not unmixed -with humour. No one knew 
 who he was, and in a country the most 
 scrutinising as to personal details, no one 
 enquired or cared to know. A quarter of 
 a century ago an English noble had caught 
 liim in his travels, and brought him young 
 to England, where he had always remained. 
 From the favourite of an individual he had 
 become the oracle of a circle, and tlicn the 
 idol of society. All this time his manner 
 remained unchanii^ed. He was never at 
 any time either humble or pretentious.
 
 250 LOTHAIR. 
 
 Instead of being a parasite, everybody 
 flattered him; and instead of being a 
 hanger-on of society, society hung on 
 Pinto. 
 
 It must have been the combination of 
 many pleasing qualities, rather than the 
 possession of any commanding one, that 
 created his influence. He certainly Avas 
 not a wit, yet he was always gay, and 
 always said things that made other people 
 merry. His conversation was sparkling, 
 interesting, and fluent, yet it was ob- 
 served he never gave an opinion on any 
 subject and never told an anecdote. In- 
 deed, he would sometimes remark, when 
 a man fell into his anecdotage it was a 
 sign for him to retire from the Avorld. And 
 yet Pinto rarely opened his mouth without 
 everybody being stricken with mirth. He 
 had the art of vie^ving common things in a 
 fanciful light, and the rare gift of raillery 
 which flattered the self-love of those whom 
 it seemed sportively not to spare. Some- 
 times those who had passed a fascinating
 
 LOTHAIR. 251 
 
 evening with Pinto would try to remember 
 on the morrow what he had said and could 
 recall nothing. He was not an intellectual 
 CrcEsus, but his pockets were full of six- 
 pences. 
 
 One of the ingredients of his social spell 
 w^as no doubt his manner, which was tran- 
 quil even when he was droll. He never 
 laughed except with his eyes, and delivered 
 himself of his most eccentric fancies in an 
 unctuous style. He had a rare gift of 
 mimicry, which he used with extreme 
 reserve, and therefore was proportionately 
 effective when displayed. Add to all this, 
 a sweet voice, a soft hand, and a disposition 
 botli soft and sweet, like his own Azores. 
 It was understood that Pinto was easy 
 in his circumstances, though no one knew 
 where these circumstances were. His equi- 
 page was worthy of his position, and in his 
 little house in May Fair he sometimes gave 
 a dinner to a fine lady, who was as proud 
 of the event as the Queen of Shcba of her 
 visit to Solomon the Great.
 
 252 LOTHAIR. 
 
 When St. Aldegonde arrived in Hill 
 Street, and slouched into the saloon with as 
 uncouth and graceless a general mien as a 
 handsome and naturally graceful man could 
 contrive to present, his keen though listless 
 glance at once revealed to him that he was, 
 as he described it at dinner to Hugo Bohun, 
 in a social jungle, in which there was a 
 great herd of animals that he particularly 
 disliked, namely, w^hat he entitled ' swells.' 
 The scowl on his distressed countenance at 
 first intimated a retreat ; but after a sur- 
 vey, courteous to his host and speaking 
 kindly to Lothair as he passed on, he made 
 a rush to Mr. Pinto, and, cordially em- 
 bracing him, said, ' Mind we sit together*' 
 
 The dinner was not a failure, though an 
 exception to the polished ceremony of the 
 normal Brancepeth banquet. The host 
 headed his table, Avith the Duke of Brecon 
 on his right and Lothair on his left hand, 
 and ' swells ' of cahbre in their vicinity; but 
 St. Aldegonde sat far away, next to Mr. 
 Pinto, and Hugo Bohun on the other side
 
 LOTHAIR. 253 
 
 of that gentleman. Hugo Bohun loved 
 swells, but he loved St. Aldegonde more. 
 The general conversation in the neighbour- 
 hood of Mr. Brancepeth did not flag : they 
 talked of the sport of the morning, and 
 then, by association of ideas, of every other 
 sport. And then from the sports of Eng- 
 land they ranged to the sports of every 
 other country. There were several there 
 who had caught salmon in Norway and 
 killed tigers in Bengal, and visited those 
 countries only for that purpose. And then 
 they talked of horses, and then they talked 
 of women. 
 
 Lothair was rather silent; for in this 
 society of ancients, the youngest of whom 
 was perhaps not less than five-and-twenty, 
 and some with nearly a lustre added to that 
 mature period, he felt the awkward modesty 
 of a freshman. The Duke of Brecon talked 
 much, but never at length. He decided 
 everything, at least to his own satisfaction; 
 and if liis ophiion were challenged, re- 
 mained unshaken, and did not conceal it.
 
 254 LOTHAIR. 
 
 All this time a different scene was enact- 
 ing at the other end of the table. St. Alde- 
 gonde, with his back turned to his other 
 neighbour, hung upon the accents of Mr. 
 Pinto, and Hugo Bohun imitated St. Alde- 
 gonde. What Mr. Pinto said or was say- 
 ing was quite inaudible, for he always 
 spoke low, and in the present case he was 
 invisible, like an ortolan smothered in 
 vineleaves ; but every now and then St. 
 Aldegonde broke into a frightful shout, and 
 Hugo Bohun tittered immensely. Then St. 
 Aldegonde, throwing himself back in his 
 chair, and talking to himself or the ceiling, 
 would exclaim, ' Best thing I ever heard,' 
 while Hugo nodded sympathy -with a beam- 
 ing smile. 
 
 The swells now and then paused in their 
 conversation and glanced at the scene of 
 disturbance. 
 
 * They seem highly amused there,' said 
 Mr. Brancepeth. ' I msh they would pass 
 it on.' 
 
 ' I think St. Aldegonde,' said the Duke
 
 LOTH AIR. 255 
 
 of Brecon, ' is the least couventional man of 
 my acquaintance.' 
 
 Notwithstanding this stern sneer, a prac- 
 tised general like Mr. Brancepeth felt he 
 had won the day. All his guests would 
 disperse and tell the world that they had 
 dined with him and met St. Aldegonde, 
 and to-morrow there would l3e a blazoned 
 paragraph in the journals commemorating 
 the event, and written as if by a herald. 
 What did a httle disturb his hospitable 
 mind was that St. Aldegonde literally tasted 
 nothiuij^. He did not care so much for his 
 occasionally leaning on the table with both 
 liis elbows, but that he should pass by every 
 dish was distressing. So Mr. Brancepeth 
 whispered to his own valet — a fine gentle- 
 man, who stood by his master's chair and 
 attended on no one else except, when requi- 
 site, his master's immediate neighbour — 
 and desired him to suggest to St. Alde- 
 gonde whether the side table might not 
 pro\ide, under the difficulties, some sus- 
 tenance. St. Aldegonde seemed quite gra-
 
 256 LOTHAIK. 
 
 tilled by the attention, and said lie should 
 like to have some cold meat. Now that 
 was the only thing the side table, boun- 
 teous as was its disposition, could not pro- 
 vide. All the joints of the season were 
 named in vain, and pies and preparations of 
 many climes. But nothing would satisfy 
 St. Aldegonde but cold meat. 
 
 ' Well, now I shall begin my dinner,' he 
 said to Pinto, when he was at length served. 
 ' What surprises me most in you is your 
 English. There is not a man who speaks 
 such good English as you do.' 
 
 ' English is an expressive language,' said 
 Mr. Pinto, ' but not difficult to master. Its 
 range is limited. It consists, as far as I 
 can observe, of four words : " nice," "jolly," 
 " charming," and "bore; " and some gram- 
 marians add " fond." ' 
 
 When the guests rose and returned to 
 the saloon, St. Aldegonde was in high 
 spirits, and talked to every one, even to the 
 Duke of Brecon, whom he considerately 
 reminded of his defeat in the morning,
 
 LOTH AIR. 257 
 
 adding that from what he had seen of his 
 Grace's guns he had no opinion of them, 
 and that he did not beheve that breach - 
 loaders suited pigeon-shooting. 
 
 Finally, when he bade farewell to his 
 host, St. Aldegonde assured him that he 
 ' never in his life made so good a dinner, 
 and that Pinto had never been so rich.' 
 
 When the party broke up, the majority 
 of the guests went, sooner or later, to a 
 ball that was given this evening by Lady 
 St. Jerome. Others, who never went to 
 balls, looked forward with refined satis- 
 faction to a niglit of unbroken tobacco. St. 
 Aldegonde went to play whist at the house 
 of a lady who lived out of to^^i. 'I like 
 the drive home,' he said; ' the morning air 
 is so refreshing when one has lost one's 
 money.' 
 
 A ball at St. Jerome House was a rare 
 event, but one highly appreciated. It was 
 a grand mansion, -with a real suite of state 
 apartments, including a genuine ball-room 
 in the Venetian style, and lighted with 
 
 VOL. I. s
 
 258 LOTHAIR. 
 
 chandeliers of rock crystal. Lady St. 
 Jerome was a woman of taste and splendour 
 and romance, who could do justice to the 
 scene and occasion. Even Lord St. Jerome, 
 quiet as he seemed, in these matters was 
 popular with young men. It was known 
 that Lord St. Jerome gave at his ball sup- 
 pers the same champagne that he gave at 
 his dinners, and that was of the highest 
 class. Li short, a patriot. We talk with 
 wondering execration of the great poisoners 
 of past ages, the Borgias, the inventor of 
 aqua tofana, and the amiable Marchioness 
 de Brinvilliers ; but Pinto was of opinion 
 that there were more social poisoners about 
 in the present day than in the darkest and 
 the most demorahsed periods, and then 
 none of them are punished ; which is so 
 strange, he would add, as they are all found 
 out. 
 
 Lady St. Jerome received Lothair, as 
 Pinto said, with extreme unction. She 
 looked in his eyes, she retained his hand, 
 she said that what she had heard had made
 
 LOTHAIR. 259 
 
 her so happy. And then, when he was re- 
 tiring, she beckoned him back and said she 
 must have some tea, and, taking his arm, 
 they walked away together. ' I have so 
 much to tell you,' she said, ' and everything 
 is so interesting. I think we are on the 
 eve of great events. The Monsignore told 
 me your heart was Tvdth us. It must be. 
 They are your own thoughts, your own 
 wishes. We are realising your own ideal. 
 I think next Sunday mil be remembered 
 as a great day in English history ; the 
 commencement of a movement that may 
 save everything. The Monsignore, I know, 
 has told you all.' 
 
 Not exactly; the Oxford visit had de- 
 ranged a httle the plans of the Monsignore, 
 but he had partially communicated the vast 
 scheme. It seems there was a new society 
 to be instituted for the restoration of Chris- 
 tendom. The change of name from Chris- 
 tendom to Europe had proved a failure and 
 a disastrous one. ' And what wonder ? ' said 
 Lady St. Jerome. ' Europe is not even a 
 
 S 2
 
 260 LOTHAIR. 
 
 quarter of the globe as the philosophers 
 pretended it was. There is already a fifth 
 division, and probably there will be many 
 more as the philosophers announce it im- 
 possible.' The Cardinal was to inaugurate 
 the institution on Sunday next at the 
 Jesuits' Church by one of his celebrated 
 sermons. It was to be a function of the 
 highest class. All the faithful of considera- 
 tion were to attend, but the attendance was 
 not to be limited to the faithful. Every 
 sincere adherent of Church principles who 
 was m a state of prayer and preparation 
 was sohcited to be present and join in the 
 holy and common work of restormg to the 
 Divine Master his kingdom upon earth with 
 its rightful name. 
 
 It was a briUiant ball. All the ' nice ' 
 people in London were there. All the 
 young men who now will never go to balls 
 were present. This was fi'om respect to 
 the high character of Lord St. Jerome. 
 Clare Arundel looked divine, dressed in a 
 wondrous white robe garlanded with violets,
 
 LOTHAIR. 261 
 
 just arrived from Paris, a present from her 
 godmother the Duchess of Lorrain-Schu- 
 lenbourg. On her head a violet wreath, 
 deep and radiant as her eyes, and which 
 admirably contrasted with her dark golden 
 brown hair. 
 
 Lothair danced with her and never ad- 
 mired her more. Her manner towards hun 
 was changed. It was attractive, even al- 
 luring. She smiled on him, she addressed 
 him in tones of sjTiipathy, even of tenderness. 
 She seemed interested in all he was doing, 
 she flattered him by a mode which is said 
 to be irresistible to a man, by talking only of 
 himself. When the dance had finished he 
 offered to attend her to the tea-room. She 
 accepted the invitation even with cordiality. 
 
 ' I think I must have some tea,' she said, 
 ' and I like to go ^vith my kinsman.' 
 
 Just before supper was announced. Lady 
 St. Jerome told Lothair, to his surprise, 
 that he was to attend Miss Arundel to the 
 great ceremony. ' It is Clare's ball,' said 
 Lady St. Jerome, ' given in her honour, and 
 you are to take care of her.'
 
 262 LOTHAIR. 
 
 ' I am more than honoured,' said Lotliair. 
 ' But does Miss Arundel wish it, for, to 
 tell you the truth, I thought I had rather 
 abused her induk-ence this evenine:.' 
 
 ' Of course she wishes it,' said Lady St. 
 Jerome. 'Who should lead her out on 
 such an occasion — her o^vn ball — than the 
 nearest and dearest relation she has in the 
 world except ourselves ? ' 
 
 Lothair made no reply to this unanswer- 
 able logic, but was as surprised as he was 
 gratified. He recalled the hour when the 
 kinship was at the best but coldly recog- 
 nised, the inscrutable haughtiness, even dis- 
 trust, with which Miss Arundel listened to 
 the exposition of his views and feehngs, and 
 the contrast which her past mood presented 
 to her present brilliant sympathy and cor- 
 dial greeting. But he yielded to the magic 
 of the flowing hour. Miss Arundel seemed 
 indeed quite a changed being to-night, full 
 of vivacity, fancy, feeling — almost fun. 
 She was witty and humorous and joyous 
 and fascinating. As he fed her with cates
 
 LOTHAIR. 263 
 
 as delicate as her lips, and manufactured 
 for her dainty beverages which would not 
 outrage their purity, Lothair at last could 
 not refrain from intimating his sense of her 
 unusual but charming joyousness. 
 
 'No,' she said, turnmg round with ani- 
 mation, ' my natural disposition, always re- 
 pressed because I have felt overwhelmed 
 by the desolation of the world. But now I 
 have hope; I have more than hope, I have 
 joy. I feel sure this idea of the resto- 
 ration of Christendom comes from Heaven. 
 It has restored me to myself, and has given 
 me a sense of happiness in this life which I 
 never could contemplate. But what is the 
 climax of my joy is, that you, after all my 
 own blood, and one in whose career I have 
 ever felt the deepest interest, should be or- 
 dained to lay, as it were, the first stone of 
 this temple of divine love.' 
 
 It was break of day when Lothair jumped 
 mto his brougham. ' Thank heavens,' he 
 exclaimed, ' it is at last Friday ! '
 
 264 LOTH AIR. 
 
 CHAPTER XXIX. 
 
 There is something very pleasant in a 
 summer suburban ride in the valley of the 
 Thames. London transforms itself into 
 bustling Knightsbridge and airy Brompton 
 brightly and gracefully, hngers cheerfully 
 in the long, miscellaneous, well-watered 
 K.ing's Road, and only says farewell when 
 vou come to an abounding river and a pic- 
 turesque bridge. The boats were bright 
 upon the waters when Lothair crossed it, 
 and his dark chestnut barb, proud of its 
 resplendent form, curvetted with joy when 
 it reached a green common, studded occa- 
 sionally with a group of pines and well- 
 bedeckecl with gorse. After this he pur- 
 sued the puljlic road for a couple of miles 
 until he observed on his left hand a gate 
 on which was written ' private road,' and
 
 LOTHAIR. 265 
 
 here he stopped. The gate was locked, 
 but when Lothair assured the keeper that 
 he was about to ^'isit Belmont, he was 
 permitted to enter. 
 
 He entered a green and winding lane, 
 fringed with tall elms and dim with fra- 
 grant shade, and after proceeding about 
 half a mile came to a lono- low-built lodg-e 
 with a thatched and shehing- roof and sur- 
 rounded by a rustic colonnade covered with 
 honeysuckle. Passing through the gate 
 at hand, he found himself in a road winding 
 through gently undulatmg banks of ex- 
 quisite turf studded with rare shrubs and 
 occasionally rarer trees. Suddenly the con- 
 fined scene expanded : wide lawns spread 
 out before him, shadowed with the dark 
 forms of many huge cedars and blazing 
 "svitli flower-beds of every hue. The house 
 was also apparent, a stately mansion of 
 liewn stone, with wings and a portico of 
 Corinthian columns, and backed by deep 
 woods. 
 
 Tliis was Belmont, built by a favourite
 
 266 LOTHAIR. 
 
 Minister of State to whom a grateful and 
 gracious sovereign had granted a sHce of a 
 royal park whereon to raise a palace and 
 a garden and find occasionally Tusculan 
 repose. 
 
 The lady of the mansion was at home, 
 and though Lothair was quite prepared for 
 this his heart beat. The inner hall was 
 of noble proportion, and there were ranged 
 in it many Roman busts and some ancient 
 slabs and altars of marble. These had 
 been collected some century ago by the 
 Minister ; but what immediately struck 
 the eye of Lothair were two statues by an 
 American artist, and both of fame, the 
 Sybil and the Cleopatra. He had heard of 
 these, but had never seen them, and could 
 not refrain from hno;erino; a moment to 
 gaze upon their mystical and fascmating 
 beauty. 
 
 He proceeded through two S23acious and 
 lofty chambers, of which it was evident the 
 furniture was new. It was luxurious and 
 rich and full of taste, but there was no
 
 LOTHAIR. 267 
 
 attempt to recall the past in the details : 
 uo cabinets and clocks of French kings or 
 tables of French queens, no chairs of 
 Venetian senators, no candelabra that had 
 illummed Doges of Genoa, no ancient por- 
 celam of rare schools and ivory carvings 
 and choice enamels. The walls were huns: 
 mth masterpieces of modern art, chiefly 
 of the French school, Ingres and Dela- 
 roche and Scheffer. 
 
 The last saloon led into a room of smaller 
 dimensions opening on the garden, and 
 which Lothair at first thought must be a 
 fernery it seemed so full of choice and 
 expanding specimens of that beautiful and 
 multiform plant; but when his eye had 
 become a little accustomed to the scene and 
 to the order of the groups, he perceived 
 they were only the refreshing and profuse 
 ornaments of a regularly furnislied and 
 inhabited apartment. In its centre was a 
 table covered with writing materials and 
 books and some music. There was a chair 
 before the table so placed as if some
 
 268 LOTH AIR. 
 
 one had only recently quitted it, a book 
 was open but turned upon its face with an 
 ivory cutter by its side. It would seem 
 that the dweller m the chamber might not 
 be far distant. The servant invited Lothair 
 to be seated, and saying that Mrs. Campian 
 must be in the garden, proceeded to inform 
 his mistress of the arrival of a guest. 
 
 The room opened on a terrace adorned 
 with statues and orange trees, and descend- 
 ing gently into a garden in the Italian 
 style, in the centre of which was a marble 
 fountain of many figures. The grounds 
 were not extensive, but they were only 
 separated from the royal park by a wire 
 fence, so that the scene seemed alike rich 
 and illimitable. On the boundary was a 
 summerhouse in the shape of a classic 
 temple, one of those pavihons of pleasure 
 which nobles loved to raise in the last 
 century. 
 
 As Lothair beheld the scene with grati- 
 fication, the servant reappeared on the 
 steps of the terrace and invited him to
 
 LOTHAIR. 269 
 
 descend. Guiding him tlirougli tlie garden, 
 the servant retired as Lothair recogiiised 
 Mrs. Campian approachmg them. 
 
 She gave her hand to Lothair and wel- 
 comed him cordially but with serenity. 
 They mutually exchanged hopes that 
 their return to to^vn had been ao-reeable. 
 Lothah' could not refrahi from expressing 
 how pleased he was with Belmont. 
 
 ' I am glad you api)rove of our hired 
 home,' said Theodora; ' I think we were 
 fortunate in finding one that suits our 
 tastes and habits. We love pictures and 
 statues and trees and flowers, and yet we 
 love our friends, and our fi'iends are people 
 who live in cities.' 
 
 ' I think I saw two statues to-day of 
 which I have often heard,' said Lothair. 
 
 ' The Sibyl and Cleopatra ? Yes, Colonel 
 Campian is rather proud of possessing 
 them. He collects onlv modern art, for 
 which I believe there is a great future, 
 though some of our friends think it is yet 
 ui its cradle ? '
 
 270 LOTHAIR. 
 
 ' I am very sorry to say,' said Lothair, 
 ' that I know very little about art, or 
 indeed anything else, but I admire what is 
 beautiful. I know something about archi- 
 tecture, at least church architecture.' 
 
 ' Well, religion has produced some of our 
 finest buildings ; ' said Theodora, ' there is 
 no question of that ; and as long as they are 
 adapted to what takes place in them they 
 are admirable. The fault I find in modern 
 churches in this country is, that there is 
 little relation between the ceremonies and 
 the structure. Nobody seems now con- 
 scious that every true arcliitectural form 
 has a purpose. But I think the climax of 
 confused ideas is capped when dissenting 
 chapels are built like cathedrals.' 
 
 ' Ah ! to build a cathedral,' exclaimed 
 Lothair, ' that is a great enterprise. I wish 
 I might show you some day some drawings 
 I have of a projected cathedral.' 
 
 ' A projected cathedral ! ' said Theodora. 
 ' Well, I must confess to you I never could 
 comprehend the idea of a Protestant cathe- 
 dral.'
 
 LOTH AIR. 271 
 
 ' But I am not quite sure,' said Lothair 
 l)lusliing and agitated, ' that it will be a 
 Protestant cathedral. I have not made 
 up my mind about that.' 
 
 Theodora glanced at him, unobserved, 
 with her wonderful grey eyes; a sort of 
 supernatural light seemed to shoot from 
 beneath their long dark lashes and read 
 his inmost nature. They were all this 
 time returning, as she had suggested, to 
 the house. Rather suddenly she said, 
 ' By the bye, as you are so fond of art, I 
 ought to have asked you whether you 
 would like to see a work by the sculptor of 
 Cleopatra which arrived when we were at 
 Oxford. We have placed it on a pedestal 
 in the temple. It is the Genius of Freedom. 
 I may say I was assisting at its inaugur- 
 ation when your name was announced to 
 me.' 
 
 Lothair caught at this proposal, and they 
 turned and approached the temple. Some 
 workmen were leaving the building as they 
 entered, and one or two lingered.
 
 272 LOTHAIR. 
 
 Upon a pedestal of porphyry rose the 
 statue of a female in marble. Though 
 veiled with drapery which might have be- 
 come the Goddess of Modesty, admirable 
 art permitted the contour of the perfect 
 form to be traced. The feet were with- 
 out sandals, and the undulating breadth of 
 one shoulder, where the drapery was fes- 
 tooned, remained uncovered. One expected 
 with such a shape some divine visage. 
 That was not wanting; but humanity was 
 asserted in the transcendent brow, which 
 beamed with sublune thought and profound 
 enthusiasm. 
 
 Some would have sighed that such 
 beings could only be pictured in a poet's 
 or an artist's dream, but Lothair felt that 
 what he beheld with rapture was no ideal 
 creation, and that he was m the presence 
 of the inspiring origmal. 
 
 ' It is too like ! ' he murmured. 
 
 ' It is the most successful recurrence to 
 the true principles of art in modern sculp- 
 ture,' said a gentleman on his right hand.
 
 LOTHAIE. 273 
 
 This person "was a young man, though 
 more than ten years older than Lothau-. 
 His appearance was striking. Above the 
 middle height, his form, athletic though 
 lithe and symmetrical, was crowned by 
 a countenance aquiline l)ut delicate, and 
 from many circumstances of a remarkable 
 radiancy. The lustre of his complexion, 
 the fire of his eye, and his chestnut hair in 
 profuse curls, contributed much to this 
 dazzling effect. A thick but small moustache 
 did not conceal his curved lip or the scorn- 
 ful pride of his distended nostril, and his 
 beard, close but not long, did not veil tlie 
 singular beauty of his mouth. It was an 
 arrogant fiice, daring and vivacious, }ct 
 weighted with an expression of deep and 
 haughty thouglit. 
 
 The costume of this gentleman was rich 
 and picturesque. Such extravagance of 
 form and colour is sometimes encountered 
 in the adventurous toilette of a countr^' 
 house, Init rarely experienced in what 
 
 VOL. I. T
 
 274 LOTHAIK. 
 
 might still be looked upon as a morning 
 visit in tlie metropolis. 
 
 ' Yon know Mr. Phcebus?' asked a low 
 clear voice, and turning round Lothair was 
 presented to a person so famous that even 
 Lothair had heard of him. 
 
 Mr. Phoebus was the most successful, 
 not to say the most eminent, painter of the 
 age. He was the descendant of a noble 
 family of Gascony that had emigrated to 
 England from France in the reign of Louis 
 XIV. Unquestionably they had mixed 
 their blood frequently durmg the interval 
 and the vicissitudes of their various life ; 
 but in Gaston PhoelDus nature, as is some- 
 times her wont, had chosen to reproduce 
 exactly the original type. He was the 
 Gascon noble of the sixteenth century, 
 with all his brilliancy, bravery, and boast- 
 fulness, equally vain, arrogant, and eccentric, 
 accomphshed in all the daring or the grace- 
 ful pursuits of man, yet nursed in the 
 philosophy of our times. 
 
 ' It is presumption in my talking about
 
 LOTHAIE. 275 
 
 such things,' said Lothair; 'but might I 
 venture to ask what you may consider the 
 true principles of art? ' 
 
 'Aryan principles,' said Mr. Phoebus; 
 ' not merely the study of natm'e, but of 
 beautiful nature ; the art of design in a 
 country mhabited by a iirstrate race, and 
 where the laws, the manners, the customs, 
 are calculated to maintain the health and 
 beauty of a firstrate race. In a greater or 
 less degree, these conditions obtained from 
 the age of Pericles to the a2;e of Hadrian 
 in pure Aryan communities, but Semitism 
 began then to prevail, and ultimately 
 triumphed. Semitism has destroyed art; 
 it taught man to despise his own body, and 
 the essence of art is to honour the human 
 frame.' 
 
 ' I am afraid I ought not to talk about 
 such things,' said Lothair ; ' but if by Semi- 
 tism you mean religion, surely tlie Italian 
 painters inspired by Semitism did some- 
 thing.' 
 
 ' Great things,' said ^Ir. Phoebus; ' some 
 
 T 2
 
 276 LOTH AIR. 
 
 of the greatest. Semitism gave them 
 subjects, but the Renaissance gave them 
 Aryan art, and it gave that art to a purely 
 Aryan race. But Semitism' raUiecI in the 
 shape of the Reformation, and swept all 
 away. When Leo the Tenth was pope, 
 popery was pagan ; popery is now Christian 
 and art is extinct.' 
 
 ' I cannot enter into such controversies,' 
 said Lothair. ' Every day I feel, more and 
 more, I am extremely ignorant.' 
 
 ' Do not regret it,' said Mr. Phoebus. 
 ' What you call ignorance is your strength. 
 By ignorance you mean a want of know- 
 ledge of books. Books are fatal ; they are 
 the curse of the human race. Nine -tenths 
 of existing books are nonsense, and the 
 clever books are the refutation of that non- 
 sense. The greatest misfortune that ever 
 befel man was the invention of printing. 
 Printing has destroyed education. Art is 
 a great thing, and Science is a great thing ; 
 but all that art and science can reveal can 
 be taught by man and by his attributes —
 
 lOTHAIR. 277 
 
 his voice, his hand, his eye. The essence 
 of education is the education of the body. 
 Beauty and health are the chief sources 
 of happiness. Men should live in the air ; 
 their exercises should be regular, varied, 
 scientific. To render his body strong and 
 supple is the first duty of man. He should 
 develop and completely master the Avhole 
 muscular system. What I admire in the 
 order to which you belong is that they do 
 live in the air; that they excel in athletic 
 sports; that they can only speak one 
 language ; and that they never read. This 
 is not a complete education, but it is the 
 highest education since the Greek.' 
 
 ' What you say I feel encouraging,' said 
 Lothair, repressing a smile, 'for I myself 
 live very much in the air, and am fond 
 of all sports; but I confess I am often 
 ashamed of being so poor a linguist, and 
 was seriously thinking that 1 ouglit to 
 read.' 
 
 ' No doubt every man should combine an 
 intellectual with ;i pliysical tniiiiing,' re-
 
 278 LOTHAIR. 
 
 plied Mr. Phoebus ; ' but the popular con- 
 ception of the means is radically wrong. 
 Youth should attend lectures on art and 
 science by the most illustrious professors, 
 and should converse too-ether afterwards on 
 what they have heard. They should learn 
 to talk; it is a rare accomplishment, and 
 extremely healthy. They should have 
 music always at their meals. The theatre, 
 entirely remodelled and reformed, and, 
 under a minister of state, should be an 
 important element of education. I should 
 not object to the recitation of lyric poetry. 
 That is enough, I would not have a book 
 in the house, or even see a newspaper.' 
 
 ' These are Aryan principles ? ' said 
 Lothair. 
 
 ' They are,' said Mr. Phoebus ; ' and of 
 such principles, I believe, a great revival 
 is at hand. We shall both live to see 
 another Renaissance.' 
 
 'And om' artist here,' said Lothair, 
 pointing to the statue, ' you are of opinion 
 that he is asserting these principles ? '
 
 LOTHAIE. 279 
 
 ' Yes; because lie has produced tlie 
 Aryan form by studying the Aryan form. 
 Phidias never had a finer model, and he 
 has not been unequal to it.' 
 
 ' I fancied,' said Lothair in a lower and 
 enquiring tone, though Mrs. Campian had 
 some tune before glided out of the pavilion 
 and was giving directions to the work- 
 men — 'I fancied I had heard that Mrs. 
 Campian was a Roman.' 
 
 ' The Romans were Greeks,' said Mr. 
 Phoebus, ' and in this instance the Phidian 
 type came out. It has not been thrown 
 away. I believe Theodora has inspired as 
 many painters and sculptors as any Aryan 
 goddess. I look upon her as such, for I 
 know nothing more divine.' 
 
 ' I fear the Phidian type is very rare,' 
 said Lothair. 
 
 ' In nature and in art there nmst always 
 be surpassing instances,' said Mr. Phoebus. 
 *It is a law, and a wise one; but, dopcud 
 upon it, so strong and perfect a type as 
 the original Aryan must be yet abundant
 
 280 LOTHAIR. 
 
 among the millions, and may be developed. 
 But for this you want great changes in 
 your laws. It is the first duty of a state 
 to attend to the frame and health of the 
 subject. The Spartans understood this. 
 They permitted no marriage the probable 
 consequences of which might be a feeble 
 progeny; they even took measures to se- 
 cure a vio:orous one. The Romans doomed 
 the deformed to immediate destruction. 
 The union of the races concerns the wel- 
 fare of the commonwealth much too nearly 
 to be entrusted to individual arrangement. 
 The fate of a nation will ultimately depend 
 upon the strength and health of the popu- 
 lation. Both France and England should 
 look to this; they have cause. As for our 
 mighty engines of war in the hands of a 
 puny race, it will be the old story of the 
 lower empire and the Greek fire. Laws 
 should be passed to secm'e all this, and 
 some day they vnll be. But nothing can 
 be done until the Aryan races are extri- 
 cated from Semitism.'
 
 LOTHAIR. 281 
 
 CHAPTER XXX. 
 
 LoTHAiR returned to town in a not alto- 
 gether satisfactory state of mind. He was 
 not serene or content. On the contrary, 
 he was rather agitated and perplexed. He 
 could not say he regretted his visit. He 
 had seen her, and he had seen her to great 
 advantai>'e. He had seen mucli too that 
 ^vas pleasing, and liad heard also many 
 tilings that, if not pleasing, were certainly 
 full of interest. And yet, when he can- 
 tered back over the common, tlie world 
 somehow did not seem to liim so briirht 
 and exliilaratin<>: as in the aml)linL!; morn. 
 AV^is it because she was not alone ? And 
 yet why should he expect she should be 
 alone? She had many friends, and she 
 was as accessible to them as to himself 
 And vet a conversation with her, as in the
 
 282 LOTH AIR. 
 
 gardens of Blenheim, would liave been de- 
 lightful, and he had rather counted on it. 
 Nevertheless, it was a great thing to know 
 men like Mr. Phoebus, and hear their views 
 on the nature of things. Lothair was very 
 young, and was more thoughtful than 
 studious. His education hitherto had been, 
 according to Mr. Phoel^us, on the right 
 principle, and chiefly in the open air ; but 
 he was intelligent and susceptible, and 
 in the atmosphere of Oxford, now stirred 
 with many thoughts, he had imbibed some 
 particles of knowledge respecting the pri- 
 maeval races which had permitted him to 
 follow the conversation of Mr. Phoebus not 
 absolutely in a state of hopeless perplexity. 
 He determined to confer with Father Cole- 
 man on the Aryan race and the genius of 
 Semitism. As he returned throuo:h the 
 park, he observed the Duchess and Lady 
 Corisande in their barouche, restiuiii: for a 
 moment in the shade, with Lord Caris- 
 brooke on one side and the Duke of Brecon 
 on the other.
 
 LOTHAIR. 283 
 
 As he was dressing for dinner, con- 
 stantly brooding on one thought, the cause 
 of his feeling of disappointment occurred to 
 hun. He had hoped in this visit to have 
 established some basis of intimacy, and to 
 have ascertained his prospect and his means 
 of occasionally seemg her. But he had 
 done nothing of the kind. He could not 
 well call again at Belmont under a week, 
 but even then Mr. Phoebus or some one 
 else might be there. The world seemed 
 dark. He mshed he had never gone to 
 Oxford. However a man may plan his life 
 he is the creature of circumstances. The 
 unforeseen happens and upsets everything. 
 We are mere puppets. 
 
 He sat next to an agreeable woman at 
 dinner, who gave him an interesting ac- 
 count of a new singer slie had lieard the 
 night before at the Opera — a fair Scandi- 
 navian, fresh as a Jily and sweet as a 
 nightingale. 
 
 ' I was resolved to go and boar licr,' said 
 the lady ; ' my sister Fcodore, at Paris,
 
 284 LOTHAIR. 
 
 had written to me so much about her. Do 
 you know, I have never been to the Opera 
 for an age ! That alone was quite a treat 
 to me. I never go to the Opera, nor to 
 the play, nor to anything else. Society 
 has become so large and so exacting, that 
 I have found out one never gets any 
 amusement.' 
 
 ' Do you know, I never was at the 
 Opera,' said Lothair. 
 
 ' I am not at all surprised; and when 
 you go — which I suppose you will some 
 day — what will most strike you is, that 
 you will not see a single person you ever 
 saw in your life.' 
 
 ' Strange ! ' 
 
 ' Yes; it shows what a mass of wealth 
 and taste and refinement there is in this 
 wonderful metropolis of ours, quite irre- 
 spective of the circles in which we move, 
 and which we once thought entirely en- 
 grossed them.' 
 
 After the ladies had retired, Bertram, 
 who dined at the same house, moved up to
 
 LOTHAIK. 285 
 
 liim; and Hugo Boliiin came over and took 
 tlie vacant seat on his other side. 
 
 ' Wliat have you been doing with your- 
 self? ' said Hugo. ' We have not seen you 
 for a week.' 
 
 ' I went down to Oxford about some 
 horses,' said Lothair. 
 
 ' Fancy gomg down to Oxford about 
 some horses in the heart of the season,' said 
 Hugo. ' I believe you are selling us, and 
 that, as the " Scorpion " announces, you 
 are ^'oinn; to be married.' 
 
 'To whom?' said Lothair. 
 
 ' Ah ! that is the point. It is a dark 
 horse at present, and we want you to 
 tell us.' 
 
 'AVhy do not you marry, Hugo?' said 
 Bertram. 
 
 ' I respect tlic institution,' said Hugo, 
 ' which is admitting somctliing in these 
 days; and I liavc always thought tliat 
 every woman should marry, and no man.' 
 
 ' It makes a woman and it mars a man, 
 you think?' said Lothair.
 
 286 LOTHAIE. 
 
 * But I do not exactly see how your view 
 would work practically,' said Bertram. 
 
 ' Well, my view is a social problem,' said 
 Hugo, ' and social problems are the fashion 
 at present. It would be solved through 
 the exceptions, which prove the principle. 
 In the first place, there are your swells who 
 cannot avoid the halter — you are booked 
 when you are born ; and then there are 
 moderate men like myself, who have their 
 weak moments. I would not answer for 
 myself if I could find an affectionate family 
 with good shooting and firstrate claret.' 
 
 ' There must be many families with such 
 conditions,' said Lothair. 
 
 Hugo shook his head. ' You try. Some- 
 times the wine is good and the shooting 
 bad ; sometimes the reverse ; sometimes 
 both are excellent, but then the temxpers 
 and the manners are equally bad.' 
 
 ' I vote we three do something to-mor- 
 row,' said Bertram. 
 
 ' What shall it be ? ' said Hugo. 
 
 'I vote we row down to Richmond at
 
 LOTHAIR. 287 
 
 sunset and dine, and then drive our teams 
 up by moonlight. What say you, Lo- 
 thair ? ' 
 
 ' I cannot, I am engaged. I am engaged 
 to go to the Opera.' 
 
 ' Fancy going to the Opera in this 
 sweltering weather ! ' exclaimed Bertram. 
 
 ' He must be going to be married,' said 
 Hugo. 
 
 And yet on the follo^dng evenmg, though 
 the Aveather was quite as sultry and he 
 was not going to be married, to the Opera 
 Lothair Avent. While the agreeable lady 
 the day before was dilating at dinner on 
 this once famous entertainment, Lothair 
 remembered that a certain person went 
 there every Saturday evening, and he re- 
 solved that he shoidd at least have the 
 satisfaction of seeing her. 
 
 It was altogether a ncAv scene for Lothair, 
 and being much affect \ ])y music lie 
 found the general influence so fascinating 
 that some little time elapsed Ijefore lie was 
 sufficiently master of himself to recur to
 
 288 LOTIIAIR. 
 
 the principal purpose of his presence. His 
 box was on the first tier, where he could 
 observe very generally and yet himself 
 be sufficiently screened. As an astronomer 
 surveys the starry heavens until his search- 
 ing sight reaches the desired planet, so 
 Lothair's scrutinising vision wandered till 
 his eye at length lighted on the wished-fbr 
 orb. In the circle above his o^vn, opposite 
 to him but nearer the stage, he recognised 
 the Campians. She had a star upon her 
 forehead, as when he first met her some 
 six months ago ; it seemed an age. 
 
 Now what should he do ? He was quite 
 unlearned in the social habits of an opera- 
 house. He was not aware that he had the 
 privilege of paying the lady a visit in her 
 box, and had he been so, he was really so 
 shy in little things that he never could 
 have summoned resolution to open the 
 door of his own box and request an at- 
 tendant to show him that of Mrs. Campian. 
 He had contrived to get to the Opera for 
 the first time in his life, and the effort
 
 LOTHAiE. 289 
 
 seemed to have exhausted his social enter- 
 prise. So he remained still, mth his glass 
 fixed very constantly on Mrs. Campian, 
 and occasionally giving himself up to the 
 scene. The performance did not sustain 
 the first impression. There were rival 
 prima -donnas, and they indulged in com- 
 petitive screams; the choruses were coarse, 
 and the orchestra much too noisy. But 
 the audience were absorbed or enthusiastic. 
 AVe may be a musical nation, but our taste 
 would seem to require some refinement. 
 
 There was a stir in Mrs. Campian's box ; 
 a gentleman entered and seated himself. 
 Lothair concluded he was an invited guest, 
 and envied him. In about a quarter of an 
 liour the gentleman bowed and retired, and 
 another person came in, and one whom 
 Lothair recognised as a young man who 
 liad been sitting during the first act in a 
 stall beneatli lihn. The system of paying 
 visits at the (Jpera tlien flaslied upon liis 
 intelligence, as some discovery in science 
 upon a painful observer. Why should lie 
 
 VOL. I. u
 
 200 LOTIIAIK. 
 
 not pay a visit too ? But how to do it ? 
 At last he was bold enough to open the 
 door of his o^m. box and go forth, but he 
 could find no attendant, and some persons 
 passing his open door, and nearly appro- 
 priating his lodge, in a fit of that nervous 
 embarrassment which attends inexperience 
 in little things, he secured his rights by 
 returning bafiled to his post. 
 
 There had been a change in Mrs. Cam- 
 pian's box in the interval. Colonel Cam- 
 pian had quitted it, and Mr. Phoebus oc- 
 cupied his place. Whether it were dis- 
 appointment at his own failure or some 
 other cause, Lothair felt annoyed. He was 
 hot and cold by turns ; felt awkward and 
 blundering ; fancied people were looking at 
 him ; that in some inexplicable sense he 
 was ridiculous ; wished he had never gone 
 to the Opera. 
 
 As time, and considerable time, elapsed, 
 he became even miserable. Mr. Phoebus 
 never moved, and Mrs. Campian frequently 
 conversed with him. More than one visi-
 
 LOTHAIR. 291 
 
 tor had in the interval paid their respects 
 to the ladv, but Mr. Phoebus never moved. 
 They did not stay, perhaps because Mr. 
 Phoebus never moved. 
 
 Lothair never liked that fellow from the 
 first. Sympathy and antipathy share our 
 being as day and darkness share our lives. 
 Lothair had felt an antipathy for Mr. 
 Phoebus the moment he saw him. He had 
 arrived at Belmont yesterday before Lo- 
 thair, and he had outsta}'ed him. These 
 might be Aryan principles, but they were 
 not the principles of good breeding. 
 
 Lothair determined to go home and 
 never to come to the Opera again. He 
 opened the door of his box witli firmness, 
 and slammed it with courage ; he liad 
 quite lost his shyness, was indeed ready to 
 run a muck with anyone wlio crossed ]iim. 
 The slannnhig of the door sunnnoned a 
 scudding attendant from a distant post, 
 who with breathless dc\'otion enquired 
 whether Lothair wanted an) thing. 
 
 o 2
 
 292 LOTHAIK. 
 
 * Yes, I want you to show me the way 
 to Mrs. Campian's box.' 
 
 ' Tier above, No. 22,' said the box- 
 keeper. 
 
 ' Ay, ay ; but conduct me to it,' said 
 Lothair, and he presented the man with 
 an overpowering honorarium. 
 
 ' Certainly, my Lord,' said the attendant. 
 
 ' He knows me,' thought Lothair ; but it 
 was not so. When the British nation is at 
 once grateful and enthusiastic, they always 
 call you ' my Lord.' 
 
 But in his progress to ' No. 22, tier above,* 
 all his valour evaporated, and when the 
 box-door was opened he felt very much like 
 a convict on the verge of execution ; he 
 changed colour, his legs tottered, his heart 
 beat, and he made his bow with a confused 
 vision. The serenity of Theodora some- 
 ^vhat reassured him, and he seated himself, 
 and even saluted Mr. Phoebus. 
 
 The conversation was vapid and con- 
 ventional — remarks about the Oj^era and 
 its performers — even the heat of the
 
 LOTflAlE. 293 
 
 weather was mentioned. Lotliair had come, 
 and he had nothing to say. Mrs. Campian 
 seemed much interested in the performance ; 
 so, if he had had anything to say, there 
 was no opportunity of expressing it. She 
 had not appeared to be so engrossed with 
 the music before his arrival. In the mean- 
 time that Phoebus would not move ; a 
 quarter of an hour elapsed, and that Phoe- 
 bus would not move. Lothair could not 
 stand it any longer ; he rose and bowed. 
 
 ' Are you going ? ' said Theodora. ' Colo- 
 nel Campian will be here in a moment ; 
 he will be quite grieved not to see you.' 
 
 But Lothair was inflexible. ' Perhaps,' 
 she added, ' we may see you to-morrow 
 night ? ' 
 
 ' Xever,' said Lotliair to himself, as he 
 clenched his teeth ; ' my visit to iiolmont 
 was my first and my last. The dream is 
 over.' 
 
 He hurried to a club in which he had 
 been recently initiated, and of whicli tlie 
 chief purpose is to ])rove to mankind iliat
 
 294 LOTIIAIR. 
 
 iiioht to a wise man has its resources a 
 well as gaudy day. Here striplings mature 
 their minds in the mysteries of whist, and 
 stimulate their intelligence by playing at 
 stakes which would make their seniors look 
 pale ; here matches are made, and odds are 
 settled, and the cares or enterprises of life 
 are soothed or stimulated by fragrant 
 cheroots or beakers of Badminton. Here, 
 in the society of the listless and freakish 
 St. Aldegonde, and Hugo Bohun, and Ber- 
 tram, and other congenial spirits, Lothair 
 consigned to oblivion the rival churches 
 of Christendom, the Aryan race, and the 
 genius of Semitism. 
 
 It was an hour past duvm when he 
 strolled home. London is often beautiful 
 in summer at that hour, the architectural 
 lines clear and defined in the smokeless 
 atmosphere, and ever and anon a fragrant 
 gale from gardened balconies wafted in the 
 blue air. Nothing is stirring except wa- 
 gons of strawberries and asparagus, and no 
 one visible except a policeman or a Member
 
 LOTHAIR. 295 
 
 of Parliament returning from a late divi- 
 sion, wliere they have settled some great 
 question that need never have been asked. 
 Eve has its spell of calmness and consola- 
 tion, but Da^^ai brings hope and joy. 
 
 But not to Lothair. Young, sanguine, and 
 susceptible, he had, for a moment, yielded 
 to the excitement of the recent scene, but 
 Avith his senses stilled by the morning air, and 
 free from the influence of Bertram's ready 
 sympathy, and Hugo Bohun's gay com- 
 ments on human life, and all the wild and 
 amusing caprice, and daring wilfulness, 
 and grand affectation that distiriguisli and 
 inspire a circle of patrician youth, there 
 came over hhn tlie consciousness that to 
 him something dark liad occurred, some- 
 thing bitter and disappohiting and liu- 
 miliating, and that the breaking morn would 
 not bring to him a day so bright and 
 liopeful as his former ones. 
 
 At first he fell iiiLu profound sluml)er: 
 it was the inevitable result of tlie Badmin- 
 ton and the late liour. Tlicre was a certain
 
 296 LOTIIAll?. 
 
 degree of pliysical exhaustion which com- 
 manded repose. But the shimber was not 
 long", and his iirst feeling, for it could not 
 be called thought, was that some great 
 misfortune had occurred to him ; and then 
 the thought following the feeling brought uj) 
 the form of the hated Phoebus. After that 
 he had no real sleep, but a sort of occa- 
 sional and feverish doze Avith intervals of 
 infinite distress, waking always to a con- 
 sciousness of inexpressible mortification 
 and despair. 
 
 About one o'clock, relinquishing all hope 
 of real and refreshing slumber, he rang his 
 bell, and his valet appearing informed him 
 that Father Coleman had called, and the 
 Monsignore had called, and that now the 
 Cardinal's secretary had just called, but 
 the valet had announced that his lord was 
 indisposed. There was also a letter from 
 Lady St. Jerome. This news brought a 
 new train of feeling, Lothair remembered 
 that this was the day of the great ecclesias- 
 tical function, under the personal auspices
 
 LOTHAIR. 297 
 
 of tlie Cardinal, at which indeed Lothair 
 had never positively promised to assist, his 
 presence at which he had sometimes thought 
 they pressed unreasonably, not to say even 
 indelicately, but at Avhich he had per- 
 haps led them, not without cause, to believe 
 that he would be present. Of late the 
 Monsignore had assumed that Lothair had 
 promised to attend it. 
 
 Why should he not? The world w\as all 
 vanity. Never did he feel more convinced 
 than at this moment of the truth of his 
 conclusion, that if religion were a real 
 thing, man should live for it alone; but 
 then came the question of the Churches. 
 He could not bring himself witliout a pang 
 to contemplate a secession from the Church 
 of his fathers. He took refuge in the wild 
 but beautiful thought of a reconciliation 
 between Rome and England. If the con- 
 secration of the whole of his fortune to that 
 end could assist in effecting the purpose, he 
 would cheerfully m;ike the sacrifice. He 
 would then go on a pilgrimage to tlic Holy
 
 298 LOTHAIE. 
 
 Sepulchre, and probably conclude liis days 
 in a hermitage on Mount Athos. 
 
 In the meantime he rose, and, invigorated 
 by his bath, his thoughts became in a slight 
 degree more mundane. They recurred to the 
 events of the last few days of his life, but 
 in a spu-it of self-reproacli and of conscious 
 vanity and weakness. Why, he had not 
 kno"\vn her a week ! This was Sunday 
 morning, and last Sunday he had attended 
 St. Mary's and offered up his earnest sup- 
 })lications for the unity of Christendom. 
 That was tlien his sovereign hope and 
 thought. Singular that a casual acquaint- 
 ance ^Yith. a stranger, a look, a glance, a 
 word, a nothing, should have so disturbed 
 his s})irit and distracted his mind. 
 
 And yet 
 
 And then he fell into an easy-chair, "with 
 a hairbrush in either hand, and conjured 
 up in reverie all that had passed since that 
 wondrous morn when he addressed her by 
 the roadside, until the last dark hour when 
 they parted — and for ever. There was
 
 LOTHAIK. 299 
 
 not a word she had uttered to hmi, or to 
 anyone else, that he did not recall ; not a 
 glance, not a gesture — her dress, her coun- 
 tenance, her voice, her hair. And what 
 scenes had all this passed in ! What re- 
 fined and stately loveliness ! Blenheim, and 
 Oxford, and Belmont ! They became her. 
 Ah ! why could not life consist of the per- 
 petual society of such delightful people in 
 such delightful places ? 
 
 His valet entered and informed him that 
 the Monsignore had returned, and would, 
 not be denied. Lothair roused himself 
 from his delicious reverie, and his coun- 
 tenance became anxious and disquieted. 
 He would have strufj^'led ao-ainst the in- 
 trusion, and was murnuu'ing resistance to 
 his hopeless attendant, who shook his head, 
 when the Monsiiiiiore li'lided hito the room 
 without permission, as the valet disap- 
 peared. 
 
 It was a wonderful performance : the 
 Monsignore had at the same time to make 
 a reconnaissance and to take up a position
 
 300 LOTIIAIR. 
 
 — to find out what Lothair intended to do, 
 and yet to act and speak as if he was ac- 
 quainted with those intentions, and was 
 not only aware of, but approved them. He 
 seemed hurried and yet tranquil, almost 
 breathless ^^dth solicitude and yet conscious 
 of some satisfactory consummation. His 
 tones were at all tmies hushed, but to-day 
 he spoke in a whisper, though a whisper of 
 emphasis, and the dark eyes of his deli- 
 cate aristocratic visage peered into Lo- 
 thair, even when he was making a remark 
 which seemed to require no scrutiny. 
 
 ' It is one of the most important days 
 for England that have happened in our time,' 
 said the Monsignore. ' Lady St. Jerome 
 thinks of nothing else. All our nobility 
 will be there — the best blood in England — 
 and some others who sympathise mth the 
 unity of the Church, the real question. 
 Nothing has ever gratified the Cardinal 
 more than your intended presence. He 
 sent to you this morning. He would have 
 called himself, but he has much to go
 
 LOTHAIR. 301 
 
 through to-day. His Eminence said to 
 me : " It is exactly what I want. What- 
 ever may be our diiFerences, and they are 
 really slight, what I want is to show to the 
 world that the sons of the Church will unite 
 for the cause of Divine truth. It is the 
 only course that can save society.'' When 
 Lady St. Jerome told him that you were 
 coming this evening, his Eminence was so 
 affected that ' 
 
 ' But I never said I was coming this 
 evening,' said Lothair, rather dryly, and 
 resolved to struggle, ' either to i^ady St. 
 Jerome or to anyone else. I said I would 
 think of it.' 
 
 ' But for a Christian to think of duty is 
 to perform it,' said the Monsignorc. ' To 
 be ignorant of a duty is a sin, but to 
 be aware of duty, and not to fulfil it, is 
 heinous.' 
 
 'J^>ut is it a dut\'?' said Lothair, ratlicr 
 doggedly. 
 
 ' What ! to serve God and save society? 
 Do vou doubt it ? Have you read the
 
 302 LOTHAIR. 
 
 *' Declaration of Geneva? " They have de- 
 clared war agamst the Church, the State, and 
 the domestic principle. All the great truths 
 and laws on which the family reposes are de- 
 nounced. Have you seen Garibaldi's letter? 
 When it was read, and spoke of the religion 
 of God being propagated throughout the 
 world, there was a universal cry of " No, 
 no ! no religion ! " But the religion of God 
 was soon so explained as to allay all their 
 fears. It is the religion of science. Instead 
 of Adam, our ancestry is traced to the most 
 grotesque of creatures, thought is phos- 
 phorus, the soul complex nerves, and our 
 moral sense a secretion of sugar. Do you 
 want these views in England ? Kest as- 
 sured they are commg. And how are we 
 to contend against them? Only by Divine 
 truth. And where is Divine truth ? In 
 the Church of Christ — in the gospel of order, 
 peace, and purity.' 
 
 Lothair rose, and paced the room with 
 his eyes on the ground. 
 
 ' I wish I had been born in the middle
 
 LOTHAIK. 303 
 
 ages,' he exclaimed, ' or on the shores of 
 the Sea of Galilee, or in some other planet : 
 anywhere, or at any time, but in this 
 country and in this age ! ' 
 
 ' That thought is not worthy of you, my 
 Lord,' said Catesby. ' It is a great privi- 
 lege to live in this country and in this age. 
 It is a great privilege, in the mighty con- 
 test between the good and the evil principle, 
 to combat for the righteous. They stand 
 face to face now, as they have stood before. 
 There is Christianity which, by revealing 
 the truth, has limited the license of human 
 reason; there is that human reason which 
 resists revelation as a bondaii^e — which in- 
 sists upon being atheistical, or polytheis- 
 tical, or pantheistical — which looks upon the 
 requirements of obedience, justice, truth, 
 and purity, as limitations of human free- 
 dom. It is to the Church that God has 
 committed the custody and execution of 
 His trutli and law. The Churcli, as Avitness, 
 teacher, and judge, contradicts and offeuds 
 the spirit of license to the quick. This is
 
 304 LOTHAIR. 
 
 why it is hated; this is why it is to be de- 
 stroyed, and why they are preparing a 
 future of rebelUon, tyranny, falsehood, and 
 degrading debauchery. The Church alone 
 can save us, and you are asked to suppli- 
 cate the Almighty to-night, under circum- 
 stances of deep hope, to favour the union 
 of churchmen, and save the human race 
 from the impending deluge.' 
 
 Lothair threw himself again into his seat 
 and sighed. ' I am rather indisposed to- 
 day, my dear Monsignore, which is unusual 
 with me, and scarcely equal to such a 
 theme, doubtless of the deepest interest 
 to me and to all. I myself wish, as you 
 well know, that all mankind were praying 
 under the same roof. I shall continue in 
 seclusion this mornhig. I*erliaps you will 
 permit me to think over what you have 
 said with so much beauty and force.' 
 
 ' I had for2:otten that I had a letter to 
 deliver to you,' said Catesby; and he drew 
 from his breast-pocket a note which he 
 handed to Lothair, who opened it quite
 
 LOTHAIR. 305 
 
 unconscious of the piercing and even ex- 
 cited observation of his companion. 
 
 Lothair read the letter with a chano-ino^ 
 countenance, and then he read it again 
 and blushed deeply. The letter was from 
 Miss Arundel. After a slight pause, with- 
 out looking up, he said, ' Nine o'clock is 
 the hour, I believe.' 
 
 ' Yes,' said the Monsignore rather eagerly, 
 ' but were I you, I would be earlier than 
 that. I would order my carriage at eight. ." 
 If you will permit me, I will order it for 
 you. You are not quite well. It will 
 save you some little trouble, people coming 
 into the room and all that, and the Car- 
 dinal will be there by eight o'clock.' ; 
 
 ' Thank you,' said Lothair ; ' have the 
 kindness then, my dear Monsignore, to order 
 my brougham for me at half- past eight, and ^ 
 just say I can see no one. Adieu ! ' 
 
 And the priest glided away. 
 
 Lothair remained the wliole morning in 
 a most troubled state, pacing his rooms, 
 leaning sometimes with his arm upon the 
 
 VOL. I. X
 
 306 LOTHAIR. 
 
 mantelpiece and his face buried in his 
 arm, and often he sighed. About half-past 
 five he rang for his valet and dressed, and 
 in another hour he broke his fast — a little 
 soup, a cutlet, and a glass or two of claret. 
 And then he looked at his watch; and he 
 looked at his watch every five minutes for 
 the next hour. 
 
 He was in deep reverie, when the ser- 
 vant announced that his carriage was 
 ready. He started as fi'om a dream, then 
 pressed his hand to his eyes, and kept it 
 there for some moments, and then, exclaim- 
 ing 'Jacta est alea,' he descended the 
 stairs. 
 
 ' Where to, my Lord?' enquired the ser- 
 vant wdien he had entered the carriage. 
 
 Lothair seemed to hesitate, and then he 
 said, ' To Belmont.'
 
 LOTH AIR. 307 
 
 CHAPTER XXXI. 
 
 ' Belmont is the only house I know that is 
 properly lighted,' said Mr. Phoebus, and he 
 looked with complacent criticism round the 
 brilliant saloons. ' I would not visit any- 
 one who had gas in his house; but even in 
 palaces I find lamps — it is too dreadful. 
 When they came here first, there was an 
 immense chandelier suspended in each of 
 these rooms, pulling doAvn the ceilings, 
 dwarfing the apartments, leaving the guests 
 all in darkness, and throwing all the light 
 on the roof. The chandelier is tlie great 
 abomination of furniture ; it makes a noble 
 apartment look small. And then tliey say 
 you cannot liglit rooms witliout chande- 
 liers! Look at these — need aiiytliing ])C 
 more brilUant? And all the liglit in the 
 rischt place — on tliose who are in the cham-
 
 308 LOTHAIK. 
 
 ber. All light should come from the side 
 of a room, and if you choose to have can- 
 delabra like these you can always secure 
 sufficient.' 
 
 Theodora was seated on a sofa in con- 
 versation with a lady of distinguished mien 
 and with the countenance of a Roman em- 
 press. There were various groups in the 
 room, standing or seated. Colonel Campian 
 was attending a lady to the piano where 
 a celebrity presided, a gentleman mth 
 cropped head and a long black beard. The 
 lady was of extraordinary beauty — one of 
 those faces one encounters in Asia Minor, 
 rich, glowing, with dark fringed eyes of tre- 
 mulous lustre ; a figure scarcely less striking, 
 of voluptuous symmetry. Her toilette was 
 exquisite — perhaps a httle too splendid for 
 the occasion, but abstractedly of fine taste — 
 and she held, as she sang, a vast bouquet 
 entirely of white stove flowers. The voice 
 was as sweet as the stephanopolis, and the 
 execution faultless. It seemed the perfec- 
 tion of chamber- singing — no shrieks and
 
 LOTHAIR. 309 
 
 no screams, none of those agonising ex- 
 periments which result from the fatal com- 
 petition of rival prima -donnas. 
 
 She was singing when Lothair was ushered 
 in. Theodora rose and greeted him with 
 friendliness. Her glance was that of gra- 
 tification at his arrival, but the performance 
 prevented any conversation save a few 
 kind remarks interchanged in a hushed 
 tone. Colonel Campian came up : he 
 seemed quite delighted at renewing his 
 acquaintance with Lothair, and began to 
 talk rather too loudly, which made some of 
 the gentlemen near the piano turn round 
 ■with glances of wondering reproach. This 
 embarrassed his newly-arrived guest, wlio 
 in his distress caught the bow of a lady 
 who recognised him, and whom he mstantly 
 remembered as Mrs. Putney Giles. There 
 was a vacant chair by her side, and he was 
 glad to occupy it. 
 
 ' Who is that lady? ' enquired Lothair of 
 his companion when the singing ceased. 
 
 ' That is Madame Phoebus,' said ^Irs. 
 Giles.
 
 310 LOTHAIR. 
 
 ' Madame Phoebus ! ' exclaimed Lotliair, 
 with an unconscious feeling of some relief. 
 ' She is a very beautiful Avoman. Who 
 was she ? ' 
 
 ' She is a Cantacuzene, a daughter of 
 the famous Greek merchant. The Canta- 
 cuzenes, you know, are great people, de- 
 scendants of the Greek Emperors. Her 
 uncle is prince of Samos. Mr. Cantacu- 
 zene was very much opposed to the match, 
 but I think quite wrong. Mr. Phoebus is a 
 most distinguished man, and the alliance 
 is of the happiest. Never was such mutual 
 devotion.' 
 
 ' I am not surprised,' said Lothair, won- 
 derfully relieved. 
 
 * Her sister Euphrosyne is in the room,' 
 continued Mrs. Giles, 'the most extraor- 
 dinary resemblance to her. There is just 
 the difference between the matron and the 
 maiden; that is all. They are nearly of 
 the same age, and before the marriage 
 might have been mistaken for each other. 
 The most charming thmg in the world is
 
 LOTHAIE. 311 
 
 to hear the two sisters smg together. I 
 hope they may to-night. I know the family 
 very well. It was Mrs. Cantacuzene wlio 
 introduced me to Theodora. You know it 
 is quite en regie to call her Theodora. All 
 the men call her Theodora ; " the divine 
 Theodora " is, I believe, the right thing.' 
 
 ' And do you call her Theodora? ' asked 
 Lothair, rather dryly. 
 
 ' Wliy, no,' said Mrs. Giles, a little con- 
 fused. ' We are not intimate, at least not 
 very. Mrs. Campian has been at my 
 house, and I have been here two or three 
 times; not so often as I could wish, for 
 Mr. Giles, you see, does not like servants 
 and horses to be used on Sundays — and no 
 more do I — and on week days he is too 
 much engaged or too tired to come out this 
 distance; so you see ' 
 
 The singing had ceased, and Theodora 
 approached tliem. Addressing Lothair, 
 she said, ' Tlie Princess of Tivoli -wishes 
 that you should be presented to Iier.' 
 
 The Princess of Tivoli was a Poman
 
 312 LOTHAIR. 
 
 dame of one of the most illustrious houses, 
 but who now Uyed at Paris. She had in 
 her time taken an active part in Itahan 
 poHtics, and had sacrificed to the cause to 
 which she was devoted the larger part of 
 a large fortune. What had been spared, 
 however, permitted her to live in the 
 French capital mth elegance, if not with 
 splendour ; and her saloon was the gather- 
 ing roof, in Paris, of almost everyone who 
 was celebrated for genius or accomphsh- 
 ments. Though reputed to be haughty and 
 capricious, she entertained for Theodora an 
 even passionate friendship, and now visited 
 England only to see her. 
 
 ' Madame Campian has been telhng me 
 of all the kind things you did for her at 
 Oxford,' said the Princess. ' Some day 
 you must show me Oxford, but it must be 
 next year. I very much admire the free 
 University life. Tell me now, at Oxford 
 you still have the Protestant religion ? ' 
 
 Lothair ventured to bow assent. 
 
 ' Ah ! that is well,' continued the Prin-
 
 LOTHAIR. 313 
 
 cess. ' I advise you to keep it. If Ave had 
 only had the Protestant religion in Italy, 
 thinirs would have been very different. 
 You are fortunate in this country in 
 ha^ano' the Protestant reliodon and a real 
 nobihty. Tell me now, in your constitu- 
 tion, if the father sits in the upper chamber, 
 the son sits in the lower house — that I 
 know; but is there any majorat attached to 
 his seat ? ' 
 
 ' Not at present.' 
 
 ' You sit in the lower house of com-se ? ' 
 
 ' I am not old enough to sit in either 
 house,' said Lothair, ' but when I am of 
 affe, which I shall be when I have the 
 honour of showing Oxford to your Higli- 
 ness, I must sit in the upper house, for I 
 have not the blessing of a living father.' 
 
 ' Ah ! that is a great thing in your 
 country,' exclahned the Princess, 'a iiiau 
 being his o^Aai master at so early an age.' 
 
 ' ] thought it was a " heritage of woe," ' 
 said Lotliair. 
 
 'No, no,' said the Princess; 'the only
 
 314 LOTHAIK. 
 
 tolerable thing in life is action, and action 
 is feeble without youth. What if you do 
 not obtain your immediate object? — you 
 always think you will, and the detail of 
 the adventure is full of rapture. And thus 
 it is the blunders of youth are preferable to 
 the triumphs of manhood, or the successes 
 of old a2;e.' 
 
 ' Well, it mil be a consolation for me to 
 remember this when I am in a scrape,' said 
 Lothau'. 
 
 ' Oh ! you have many, many scrapes 
 awaiting you,' said the Princess. ' You 
 may look forward to at least ten years of 
 blunders — that is, illusions — that is, hap- 
 piness. Fortunate young man ! ' 
 
 Theodora had, without appearing to in- 
 tend it, relinquished her seat to Lothair, 
 who continued his conversation with the 
 Prmcess, whom he liked, but who, he was 
 sorry to hear, was about to leave England, 
 and immediately — that very night. ' Yes,' 
 she said, ' it is my last act of devotion. 
 You know in my country we have samts
 
 LOTHAIE, 315 
 
 and sliriiies. All Italians, they say, are 
 fond, are superstitious ; my pilgrimage is 
 to Theodora. I must come and worship 
 her once a year.' 
 
 A gentleman bowed lowly to the Prin- 
 cess, who returned his salute with pleased 
 alacrity. ' Do you know who that is ? ' 
 said the Princess to Loth air. ' That is 
 Baron Gozelius, one of our great reputa- 
 tions. He must have just arrived. I will 
 present you to him; it is always agTeeable 
 to know a great man,' she added — ' at 
 least Goethe says so ! ' 
 
 The philosopher, at her invitation, took 
 a chair opposite the sofa. Though a pro- 
 found man, he had all the ^ivacity and 
 passion which are generally supposed to be 
 peculiar to the superficial. He had remark- 
 able conversational power, which he never 
 spared. Lothair was captivated by liis 
 elocpience, his striking ol)servations, liis 
 warmth, and the flashing of his southern 
 eye. 
 
 ' Baron Gozelius agrees with your celc-
 
 316 LOTHAIR. 
 
 brated pastor, Dr. Gumming,' said Theodora, 
 •with a tinge of demure sarcasm, ' and beheves 
 that the end of the world is at hand.' 
 
 ' And for the same reasons ? ' inquired 
 Lothair. 
 
 ' Not exactly,' said Theodora, ' but in 
 this instance science and revelation have 
 arrived at the same result, and that is what 
 all desire.' 
 
 ' All that I said was,' said Gozelius, ' that 
 the action of the sun had become so irre- 
 gular that I thought the chances were in 
 favour of the destruction of our planet. 
 At least, if I were a public office, I would 
 not insure it.' 
 
 ' Yet the risk would not be very great 
 under those circumstances,' said Theodora. 
 
 ' The destruction of this world is fore- 
 told,' said Lothair; 'the stars are to fall 
 from the sky ; but while I credit, I cannot 
 bring my mind to comprehend, such a 
 catastrophe.' 
 
 'I have seen a world created and a 
 world destroyed,' said Gozelius. ' The
 
 LOTHAIR. 317 
 
 last was flickering ten years, and it went 
 out as I was watching it.' 
 
 ' And the first ? ' enquired Lothair 
 anxiously. 
 
 ' Disturbed space for half a century — a 
 great pregnancy. William Herschel told 
 me it would come when I was a boy, and I 
 cruised for it through two-thnds of my hfe. 
 It came at last, and it repaid me.' 
 
 There was a stir. Euphrosyne was 
 going to sing ^^dth her sister. They swept 
 by Lothair in their progress to the instru- 
 ment, like the passage of sultanas to some 
 kiosk on the Bosphorus. It seemed to 
 him, that he had never beheld anything so 
 resplendent. Tlie air was perfumed by 
 their movement and the rustling of their 
 wondrous robes. ' They must be of the 
 Aryan race,' thouglit Lothair, ' thougli not 
 of the Pliidian type.' They sang a Greek 
 air, and their sweet and touching voices 
 blended with exquisite harmony. Every- 
 one was silent in the room, because every- 
 one was entranced. Then they gave their
 
 318 LOTIIAIR. 
 
 friends some patriotic lay which required 
 a chorus, the sisters in turn singing a 
 stanza. Mr. Phoebus arranged the chorus 
 in a moment, and there clustered round 
 the piano a number of gentlemen almost 
 as good-looking and picturesque as himself. 
 Then, ^yhile Madame Phoebus was sing- 
 ing, Euphrosyne suddenly and with quick- 
 ness moved away and approached Theo- 
 dora, and whispered something to her, but 
 Theodora slightly shook her head and 
 seemed to decline. 
 
 Euphrosyne regained the piano, whis- 
 pered something to Colonel Campian, who 
 was one of the chorus, and then com- 
 menced her OAvn part. Colonel Campian 
 crossed the room and spoke to Theodora, 
 who instantly, without the slightest demur, 
 joined her friends. Lothair felt agitated, 
 as he could not doubt Theodora was going 
 to sing. And so it was ; when Euphrosyne 
 had finished, and the chorus she had in- 
 spired had died away, there rose a deep 
 contralto sound, Avliicli, though without
 
 LOTHAIFv. 319 
 
 effort, seemed to Lotliair the most thrill- 
 ing tone he had ever listened to. Deeper 
 and richer, and richer and deeper, it 
 seemed to become, as it womid with ex- 
 quisite facility through a symphony of de- 
 licious sound, until it ended in a passionate 
 burst, which made Lothair's heart beat so 
 tmnultuously that for a moment he thought 
 he should be overpowered. 
 
 ' I never heard anything so fine in my 
 life,' said Lothair to the French philo- 
 sopher. 
 
 ' Ah ! if you had heard that woman sing 
 the Marseillaise, as I did once, to three 
 thousand people, then you ^vould know 
 what was fine. Not one of us who would 
 not have died on the spot for her ! ' 
 
 The concert was over. The Princess of 
 Tivoli had risen to say farewell. She 
 stood apart with Theodora, liolding hoth 
 her hands, and speaking witli earnestness. 
 Then slie pressed Iier lips to Theodora's 
 forehead and said, ' Adieu, my best beloved j 
 the spring will return.'
 
 320 LOTHAIE. 
 
 The Princess had disappeared, and Ma- 
 dame Phoebus came up to say good night 
 to her hostess. 
 
 ' It is such a dehcious night,' said Theo- 
 dora, ' that I have ordered our strawberries 
 and cream on the terrace. You must not go.' 
 
 And so she mvited them all to the 
 terrace. There was not a breath of air, 
 the garden was flooded mth moonlight in 
 which the fountain glittered, and the at- 
 mosphere was as sweet as it was warm. 
 
 ' I think the moon w^ill melt the ice to- 
 nio'ht ' said Theodora as she led Madame 
 Phoebus to a table covered with that inno- 
 cent refreshment in many forms, and pyra- 
 mids of strawberries, and gentle drinks 
 which the fancy of America could alone 
 devise. 
 
 ' I wonder we did not pass the whole 
 evening on the terrace,' said Lothair. 
 
 ' One must sing in a room,' said Euphro- 
 syne, ' or the nightingales would ecHpse 
 us.' 
 
 Lothair looked quickly at the speaker,
 
 LOTHAIR. 321 
 
 and caught the glance of a pecuhar coun- 
 tenance — mockery blended "with Ionian 
 splendom'. 
 
 ' I think strawberries and cream the 
 most popular of all food,' said Madame 
 Phoebus, as some touched her beautiful 
 lips. 
 
 ' Yes ; and one is not ashamed of eating 
 it,' said Theodora. 
 
 Soon there was that stir which precedes 
 the breaking up of an assembly. Mrs. 
 Giles and some others had to return to 
 to^Am. Madame Phoebus and Euphros}Tie 
 were near neighbours at Tiochampton, 
 but their carriage had been for some time 
 waiting. Mr. Phoebus did not accompany 
 them. He chose to walk home on sucli a 
 night, and descended into the garden witli 
 his remaining friends. 
 
 ' They are going to smoke,' said Theo- 
 dora. ' Is it your habit ? ' 
 
 ' Not yet.' 
 
 ' I do not dislike it in tlic air niid at a 
 
 VOL. T. Y
 
 322 LOTHAIR. 
 
 distance ; but I banish them the terrace. 
 I think smoking must be a great consola- 
 tion to a soldier; ' and as she spoke, she 
 moved, and, without formally inviting him, 
 he found himself walking by her side. 
 
 Rather abruptly he said, ' You wore last 
 night at the Opera the same ornament as 
 on the first time I had the pleasure of 
 meeting you.' 
 
 She looked at him with a smile, and a 
 little surprised. ' My solitary trinket ; I 
 fear you will never see any other.' 
 
 ' But you do not despise trinkets ? ' said 
 Lothair. 
 
 ' Oil ! no, they are very well. Once I 
 was decked with jewels and ropes of pearls, 
 like Titian's Queen of Cyprus. I sometimes 
 regret my pearls. There is a reserve about 
 pearls which I like — something soft and 
 dim. But they are all gone, and I ought 
 not to regret them, for they went in a 
 good cause. I kept the star, because it 
 was given to me by a hero, and once we 
 flattered ourselves it was a symbol.'
 
 LOTHAIE, 323 
 
 ' I wish I were a hero,' said Lothair. 
 
 ' You may yet prove one.' 
 
 ' And if I do, may I give you a star ? ' 
 
 ' If it be symbohcaL' 
 
 'But of what?' 
 
 ' Of an heroic purpose.' 
 
 ' But what is an heroic purpose ? ' ex- 
 claimed Lothair. ' Instead of beino- here 
 to-night, I ought perhaps to have been pre- 
 sent at a religious function of the highest and 
 deepest import, wdiich might have influenced 
 my destiny and led to something heroic. 
 But my mind is uncertain and unsettled. 
 I speak to you without reserve, for my heart 
 always entirely opens to you, and I have 
 a sort of unlimited confidence in your 
 judgment. Besides, I have never forgotten 
 what you said at Oxford about religion — 
 that you could not conceive society witliout 
 religion. It is what I feel myself, and 
 most strongly; and yet there novor was ;i 
 period when religion Avas so assailed. Tlici-e 
 is no doubt the Atheists an; b(»l<hi-, are 
 more completely organised, both as to intel- 
 
 Y 2
 
 324 LOTHAIR. 
 
 lectual and even physical force, than ever was 
 known. I have heard that from the highest 
 authority. For my own part, I think I am 
 prepared to die for Divine truth. I have 
 examined myself severely, but I do not 
 think I should falter. Indeed, can there 
 be for man a nobler duty than to be the 
 champion of God? But then the question 
 of the Churches interferes. If there were 
 only one Church, I could see my way. 
 Withovit a Church there can be no true 
 religion, because otherwise you have no 
 security for the truth. I am a member 
 of the Church of England, and when I was 
 at Oxford I thought the Anglican view 
 might be sustained. But of late I have 
 given my mind deeply to these matters, for 
 after all they are the only matters a man 
 should think of; and I confess to you the 
 claim of Rome to orthodoxy seems to me 
 irresistible.' 
 
 ' You make no distinction, then, between 
 rehgion and orthodoxy,' said Theodora. 
 
 ' Certainly I make no difference.'
 
 LOTH AIR. 325 
 
 ' And vet what is orthodox at Dover is 
 not orthodox at Calais or Ostend. I should 
 be sorry to think that, because there was 
 no orthodoxy in Belgium or France, there 
 was no religion.' 
 
 ' Yes,' said Lothair, ' I thuik I see what 
 you mean.' 
 
 ' Then again, if we go further,' continued 
 Theodora, ' there is the whole of the East; 
 that certainly is not orthodox according to 
 your \T.ews : you may not agree with all 
 or any of their opinions, but you could 
 scarcely maintain that, as communities, they 
 are irreligious.' 
 
 ' Well, you could not certainly,' said 
 Lothair. 
 
 ' So you see,' said Theodora, ' what is 
 called orthodoxy has very little to do Avitli 
 religion ; and a person may be very religious 
 without holding the same dogmas as your- 
 self, or, as some think, without holding 
 any.' 
 
 ' According to you, tlien,' said Lothair, 
 ' the Anglican view might be maintained.'
 
 326 LOTHAIR. 
 
 ' I do not know what the Anglican view 
 is,' said Theodora. ' I do not belong to 
 the Roman or to the Ano-lican Church.' 
 
 ' And yet you are very religious,' said 
 Lothair. 
 
 ' I hope so ; I try to be so ; and when I 
 fail in any duty, it is not the fault of my 
 religion. I never deceive myself into that ; 
 I know it is my own fault.' 
 
 There was a pause ; but they walked on. 
 The soft splendour of the scene and all its ac- 
 cessories, the moonlight, and the fragrance, 
 and the falhng waters, wonderfully be- 
 witched the spirit of the young Lothair. 
 
 ' There is nothing I would not tell you,' 
 he suddenly exclaimed, turning to Theo- 
 dora, ' and sometimes I think there is 
 nothing you would not tell me. Tell me 
 then, I entreat you, what is your religion ? ' 
 
 ' The true religion, I think,' said Theodora. 
 ' I worship in a church where I believe God 
 dwells, and dwells for my guidance and ray 
 good — my conscience.'
 
 LOTHAIR. 327 
 
 ' Your conscience may be divine,' said ' 
 Lotliair, 'and I believe it is; but the con- 
 sciences of other persons are not divine, 
 and what is to guide them, and what is to 
 ])revent or to mitigate the evil they would 
 perpetrate ? ' 
 
 ' I have never heard from priests,' said 
 Theodora, ' any truth which my conscience 
 had not revealed to me. They use different 
 language from what I use, but I find after 
 a time that we mean the same thino-. 
 What I call time they call eternity; when 
 they describe heaven, they give a picture 
 of earth; and beings whom they style 
 divine they invest mth all the attributes 
 of humanity.' 
 
 ' And yet is it not true,' said Lothau', 
 that ' 
 
 But at til is moment tliere were tlic 
 sounds of merriment and of ;i]i])rn;icliiiig 
 footsteps; the form of Mr. Plidhiis ;i|)|)eared 
 ascending the steps of tlie terrace, ibllowcd 
 by others. The smokers li;i<l ft i Killed 
 their task. There were farewells, and bows,
 
 328 LOTHAIR. 
 
 and good-niglits. Lothair had to retire 
 with the others, and as he threw himself 
 into his brougham he exclaimed, ' I perceive 
 that life is not so siinple an affair as I 
 once supposed.' 
 
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 INDEX. 
 
 AcTOs'R Modem CooVcrj- 
 
 A LCoCK's Rcjiflf nee in Japan 
 
 Allies un lortnutiuu of Chriatendoin .... 
 
 Alpin Guidc(The) 
 
 Althaus on Mediial Klcctricity 
 
 AnbrF-WS's Life o1 Olivir Cromwell 
 
 ABXOI.u's Manual of Knsli:*'! Literature .. 
 
 Arnott's Elements of Physics 
 
 Arundine^ C'ami 
 
 Autumn Holidays of r Country Parson 
 
 ATRK'a Treasury of Bible Knowledee 
 
 Bacon's Essays, by WnATELY 
 
 Life and I,etterH. Iiy SpedIiING .. 
 
 Works, eilitiMi l)y SPKniiiNO 
 
 Bain s Mental and Moral Science 
 
 on tin- Emotions and Will 
 
 -on the Sen^e■. and Intellect, 
 -on the Siuiiy of Chaiaeter . 
 
 Ball's Aini' e Guide 
 
 Baksahd's Drawine from Nature 
 
 Bayliion's Kents and Tilla.'Cs 
 
 B aten Tracks 
 
 Bf.cKP.R's Chari'lc" an'/ Oitllus 
 
 BENFF.Y'.-i San'<krit Dictionary 
 
 Black's I'realise on Brewing 
 
 Blackley'h Word-Gi>ssip 
 
 _ GcrmBn-Krii;lish Dic'ionary .. 
 
 BLAINK'S Kural -[MTtB 
 
 Veterinary Art 
 
 Boi'ltNK on Screw Propeller 
 
 Bni'RXF.'s C'ltecldsni of the Steam Encine . 
 
 Jlandbook nf stCRin Engine 
 
 ]miiroVfnient« in the .steam 
 
 Knu'ine 
 
 . Treatise on the Steam KiiL'tne .. 
 
 Kxamples I'f M'Klern Kiicines .. 
 
 BowiiLKii's 1 amily SilAKSPKAitK 
 
 Branuk's Dictionary of .'■cience, Li eia- 
 
 t ore. and Art ■ 
 
 Brav'hiC.i Kdneation of the Fee Inirs .... 
 
 Hhil'uophy of Neoei»ity 
 
 on force. 
 
 BnoWNK'tt Exn 'nil on of the ."JS -Vrtielcs 
 
 BiCKLK's Hi.tory of Civilizati.'n 
 
 Bull's lliiitj to .Mothers .. ........ 
 
 Mati'initl .Mann.ement of Children 
 
 BcxsES s (Baron I Amicnt F:jyiit 
 
 fjoi! in Ilistory 
 
 Menioirri 
 
 Bu.NKV.N (E Dkioo Ap crypho 
 
 's Key- iif St. Peter 
 
 BURKK'S iri,-iiude«of I ainilies 
 
 BVUTOX'K < li i-lian Chunli 
 
 Vikrnm and the Vami.lre 
 
 2* I 
 21 ' 
 20 
 23 
 H 
 
 4 
 
 7 
 II 
 
 2r, 
 
 9 
 
 20 
 
 l« 
 IH 
 2)1 
 
 13 
 
 10 
 10 
 
 in 
 111 
 
 2 
 
 2« 
 
 2» 
 
 4 
 
 :t 
 
 •A 
 
 21 
 ■'i 
 4 
 
 21 
 
 Cabinet Lawyer 
 
 Calvert'.s Wife's ^ranual 21 
 
 Cates's B osraphical I'ietii" avy I, 
 
 Cat.S' and lARLIK's MiTuI Fnil.lims 16 
 
 Chan eri Aspect^ of lUichani'ed Tjuths .... 9 
 
 Chesxey'.s Euphra-es ► xicdition 22 
 
 Indian Polity 3 
 
 Waterloo C anipaiL-n 3 
 
 C HILDS Phy>ioloj.'irai E.>'iiyi li 
 
 Churale Hook for England IG 
 
 < I.oicii's l.ive> from Plutarch 3 
 
 CoiiBK's .Norman Kines of 1 nsflund 4 
 
 COLEXso (Bishop) on Peutatei.cli and Book 
 
 of Joshua ia 
 
 Commoi (dace Philosopher iu Town and 
 
 Country 9 
 
 COXIXGTOX'.S Chemiittl Analy-is U 
 
 Traiisliition of A'llnML's 
 
 .i.niiil !«1 
 
 CoxTAXSEAr'sF rench-Eiifli-li Dictionaries 8 
 tONYiiEARE and Howtiox's Woik on St. 
 
 lam IV 
 
 Cook on the Acts 19 
 
 Cook's Viiyaees 6 
 
 Cooper's SiML'ical Dictioiuiry 14 
 
 ( oPLAXli's Dietiiimiryof Practical Medicine 1!> 
 
 Cotton's Introductiitn to Confl mation.... 19 
 
 Coii.TIIART'k D<i-inuil Iii(erp>l 'I aides » 
 
 Counsel at d Comfitrt tn>ni a C)t\ Pulpit. ... 9 
 
 Co.x's (G. W.) Aryan Mytliol.iiy 4 
 
 Manual it .Myti iducy t 
 
 . Talc-* of the (ircat Perhian 
 
 War t 
 
 Tuhsof Anel id Gneee .... » 
 
 (.H.) Ancient I'ailiamenla y Elec- 
 tions 1 
 
 History of lh< U.f. n.BilU .... 1 
 
 WhicainlT i) A<ln ini-trationi I 
 
 Ckkhy's Ktn*ycli'iindia<.f < ivil l.nLiiieeiiiiu IM 
 
 Critical E«say.«ofu( onnti>' ParNiii 9 
 
 (HOWE'S lln-tory of 1 ranee 1 
 
 CI'LLHV'h MainlMiot id "Ic CKiupliy I" 
 
 CI'HACK'h History uf Ireland il 
 
 Dart's Iliad of Homer M 
 
 U'.Miiri.NE'H llitoy of the llelorinatimi 
 
 In llie liniei.f Cai.vi.V 1 
 
 I)A\ ins'iN's Intro'lnctloii toN w Tclainriit M 
 
 |IA> »I.^.\'H Diiiite's Dl\iiiri ( ommKlia Hi 
 
 Deiid -hot The 1 try Marksman M 
 
 I)K LA IllVF's TrealiM- III. EUeliicltJi II 
 
 DKNIkoN's Vicc-I'etul Life I 
 
 Dk 'I ipcvi.evii.lk's Uimi crncy In Amtrlcji S 
 
 iHiliHoN on the Ox t! 
 
 1 OVK • n Storm. I 
 
 DoVI.K's }'alr)lii> <l 10 
 
 Dykh'c llty ofKoinc ;i
 
 30 
 
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 Eastlakk's Life of Gibson 16 
 
 Hints on Household Taste .... 17 
 
 History of Oil Puijiting 16 
 
 Edmunds's Names of'PIaces 9 
 
 Edwards's Shipmaster's Guide 27 
 
 Elements of Boi any 13 
 
 EI/Licott's Commentary on Ephesians .... 19 
 
 Lectures on Life of Christ 19 
 
 Commentary on Galatians 19 
 
 Pastoral Epist. 19 
 
 Philippians,&c. 19 
 
 Thessaloniana 19 
 
 Essays and Contrihntiuns of A.K. H. B 8 
 
 Essays and Reviews 21 
 
 EWALD'S History of Israel 20 
 
 Fairbairn on Iron Shipbuilding 18 
 
 'S AppliCEitinn of Cast and 
 
 "Wroxicrht Iron to Building 18 
 
 Information for Knjrineers .. 18 
 
 Treatise on Mills arid Mill- 
 work 18 
 
 Faraday's Life and Letters 4 
 
 Farrar's Families of Speecli 9 
 
 ^ Chapters on Lantrunire 7 
 
 Felkin on Hosiery and Lace Mannfietures 18 
 
 Ffoulkes's Christendom's Di\isions 21 
 
 FlTZWYGRAM on Horses and Stuhlca 27 
 
 Five Years in a Protestant Si^terhood 20 
 
 Flaman'k's Diversities of Life 10 
 
 Forres's Earls of Granard 5 
 
 Fowler's (.ollieries and Colliers 28 
 
 Francis's Fishins Book 26 
 
 Freshfield's Travels in the Caucasus 22 
 
 FRonDE's History of England 1 
 
 Short Studies on Great Subjects 9 
 
 Gaxot'8 Elementary Physics 11 
 
 CiAsCOinxE's Doctor Harold 24 
 
 Gil.iiEKT'S Cailore, or Titian's Country '11 
 
 Gilbert and Churchill's Dolomites 2.'? 
 
 Goldsmith's Poems, Illustrated 25 
 
 Gould's Silver Store 26 
 
 Graham's Book about Words 7 
 
 Grant's Home Politics 3 
 
 Ethics of Aristotle 6 
 
 Graver Tlioui:hts of a Country Parson 9 
 
 Gray's Anatomy 15 
 
 Greeniiow on Bronchitis 14 
 
 Grove on C()rrelation of Physical Forces .. 12 
 Guhxey'S Chapters of Frencli History .... 2- 
 
 Gwilt's Encyclopsedia of Architecture 17 
 
 Hare on Election of Representatives 7 
 
 Hartwig'S Harmonies of Nature 12 
 
 Polar World 13 
 
 Sea and its Livins; Wonders . . 12 
 
 Tropical World 13 
 
 Hatch's Life of Shaftesbury 4 
 
 H A rfiiiTox's Manual of Geology 12 
 
 IlAWKKii's liistruc'ionstoYoimgSportsmen 2K 
 
 H Eiiscil el's Outlines of Astronomy 11 
 
 IIewitt on Diseases c:f Women 14 
 
 Holmes's System of Surgery M 
 
 surgical Di-eases of Infancy 11 
 
 Hooker and Walker-Arnott's British 
 
 Flora 13 
 
 Horne's Introduction to the Scriptures 20 
 
 Compendium of ditto 20 
 
 How we Spent the Summer 22 
 
 Howard's Gymnastic E.xe'.cies 15 
 
 HOWITT'S Australian Di-cuvery 23 
 
 Northern Heights of London 24 
 
 . Rural I,ife of England 24 
 
 Visits to Remarkable Places 24 
 
 HroHEs's (W.) Maritial of Geography 11 
 
 HcuE's Essays 10 
 
 HUitE's Treatise on Human Nature 10 
 
 Humphrey's Sentiments of Shakspeare 16 
 
 Ihne's Roman History S 
 
 INGELOW'S Poems 25 
 
 Story of Doom 26 
 
 Mopsa 26 
 
 Jameson'8 Legends of the Saints and 
 
 Martyrs 17 
 
 Legendsof the Madonna 17 
 
 Legends of the Monastic 
 
 Orders 17 
 
 Jameson and Eastlake's History of Our 
 
 Lord 17 
 
 Johnston's Geographical Dictionary 11 
 
 Jukes on Second Death 21 
 
 on Types of Genesis 21 
 
 K ALISCH'S Commentary on the Bible 7 
 
 Hebrew Grammar 9 
 
 Keith on Fulfilment of Prophecy 29 
 
 Destiny of the World SO 
 
 Kerl's Metallurgy by Cbookks and 
 
 RiHRIO m 
 
 Kesteven's Domestic Medicine 15 
 
 KiRBY and Spence's Entomology 13 
 
 Landon'S(L.E.L.1 Poetical Works 26 
 
 Latham's English Dictionary 7 
 
 River Plate II 
 
 La\vlor's Pilgrimages in the Pyrenees.... 24 
 
 Lecky'S History of European Morals 4 
 
 ■ Rationalism 4 
 
 Leighton's Sermons and Charges 19 
 
 Leisure Hours in Town 9 
 
 Lessons of Middle Ape 9 
 
 Letiiery on Food 88 
 
 Lewes' History of Philosophy 4 
 
 Lewis's Letters 5 
 
 LiDDELLand SCOTT'S Greek-English Lexi- 
 con 8 
 
 — ; Abridged ditto 8 
 
 Life of Man Symbolised 16 
 
 Life of Margaret M. Hallahan 20 
 
 LiNDLEYand Moore's Treasury of Botany IS 
 
 Lindsay's Evidence for the Papacy JO 
 
 Longman's Edward the Tliird S 
 
 Lectures on the History of Eng- 
 land 2 
 
 Chess Openings 28 
 
 Lord's Prayer Illustrated IS 
 
 Loudon's Agriculture 19 
 
 Gardening 19 
 
 Plants 19 
 
 Lowndes's Engineer's Handbook 13 
 
 Lyra Eucharistica 22 
 
 Germanica 16,21 
 
 Messianica 22 
 
 My stica 22 
 
 Maheldean 84 
 
 Macaulay's (Lord) Essays 3 
 
 History of England .. I 
 
 ^ Lays of Ancient Rome 25 
 
 MiscellaneousWritings 9 
 
 Speeches 7 
 
 Complete Woiks I 
 
 Macfarrex's Lectures on Harmony 16 
 
 M.WKINTOSH'S Scenery of England and 
 
 Wales IB 
 
 MacLeod's Elements of Political Economy 7 
 Dictionary of Political Eco- 
 nomy 7 
 
 Elements of Banking 27 
 
 Theory andPracticeofBanking 27
 
 NEW WORKS PUBLISHED BY LOXGMANS akd CO. 
 
 31 
 
 MoCmxoOH'S Dictionary of Commerce 27 
 
 Geo^rftpliical Dictionary .. II 
 
 Waouibe'8 Life of Fatlier Mathew 5 
 
 M.VNN'ISQ'S Enitland and Christendom 21 
 
 Makcet on the Larynx 15 
 
 Makshall's Physiology 15 
 
 Makshman's Life of Havelock 5 
 
 History of India 3 
 
 Martikeau'8 Endeavours after the CUria- 
 
 tian Life 22 
 
 Massey's History of England 2 
 
 Hassinoberd's History of the Reformation 4 
 
 Mathksok'8 England to DeUii 22 
 
 llACTNDEa'S Biographical Treasury 5 
 
 Geozraphical Treasury 11 
 
 Historical Treasury 4 
 
 Scientific and Literary Trea- 
 sury 13 
 
 ■ Treasury of Knowledge 25 
 
 Treasur>' of Natural History 13 
 
 Mauhv'S Physical Geography 11 
 
 May's Constitutional History of EnjJilaud.. 2 
 
 Melville's Dii,'by Grand 25 
 
 — General Boimce 25 
 
 Gladiators 25 
 
 . Good for Nothing 25 
 
 Holraby House '^5 
 
 Interpreter 25 
 
 KateCoventry 25 
 
 Queen's Maries 25 
 
 IIBIIOELSSOHN'S Letters 5 
 
 Menes und Cheops 10 
 
 JiEHIVALE'8 (H.) Historical Studies 2 
 
 (C.) Fall of the Roman Re- 
 public S 
 
 Romans under the Empire 3 
 
 Mebbipielu and EvBB's Navigation 11 
 
 MlLUH ou irome's Foot and Horse5hoeing . . 27 
 
 Horse.' Teeth and Stables 27 
 
 >llLL(J.)on the Mind 10 
 
 Mill 1 J. S.) on Liberty ti 
 
 on Representative Government ti 
 
 . on l'tilitariaui^m 6 
 
 Mill's (J. S.i Dissertations and IJiscussious 7 
 
 Political Economy 6 
 
 System of Ixiuic fi 
 
 „ Hamilton's Pliilosuphy 7 
 
 Inaugural Address 7 
 
 . Englantl and Ireland 6 
 
 Subjection of Women 6 
 
 MlLi.Eli'8 Elements of Chemistry 13 
 
 Ilymn-W'ritcrs 21 
 
 MiTCHKLL't^ Manual of Assaying H 
 
 MONKBLL's Beatitudes 22 
 
 His Presence not Uis Memory 22 
 
 'Spiritual Songs' 22 
 
 MOORK'8 Irish Melodies 25 
 
 Lalla Ko<jkh 25 
 
 Poetical Works 25 
 
 Power of the Soul over the Body 21 
 
 MoKEi.L'H Elements of I'sychology 10 
 
 Mental Philosophy 10 
 
 Mullkr'8(Max) Chips from a German 
 
 Workhliop 10 
 
 Ix;rli, on the Science 
 
 ot i^anguagc 7 
 
 (K. O.I Literature of Ancient 
 
 (iri'cce ' 
 
 MCRCnisox on continued Fevers 15 
 
 on Liver Complaints li 
 
 MCRE's Language and Literature of Greece 3 
 
 New Testament, Illustratod Edition IB 
 
 Nkwm AN's History of hi«lU-lii.'iouN(lniniot)» .'> 
 
 NiCHOI.R' Handbook to the Brili-li Museum 2H 
 
 NiOHTINOALE's Notes on Hospitals *>t 
 
 N ll.ssos's Scandinavia '2 
 
 JJOHTUCOTE'H Sanctuaries of the Madonna 20 
 
 NOBTHOOTT's Lathes and Turning 17 
 
 Norton's City of London a 
 
 Odlixo's Animal Chemistry u 
 
 Course ut Practical Chemistry.. 14 
 
 Manual of Chemistry IJ 
 
 Lectures on Carbon 14 
 
 Outlines of Chemistry 14 
 
 Our Children's Story tj 
 
 Owen's Lectures on the Invertebrate Ani- 
 mals IS 
 
 Comparative Anatomy and Physio- 
 logy of V'ertebrated Animals.... 12 
 
 Packe's Guide to the PjTcnees 2S 
 
 Paoet'S Lectures on Sur/ical Pathology . . 14 
 
 Perbira'S Manual of Materia Medica 15 
 
 Perkjn's Italian and Tuscan Sculptors 17 
 
 Phillips's Guide to Geology 12 
 
 Pictures iu T5T0I a 
 
 PlESSB'S .4rt of Perftim.ry N 
 
 Natural Magic 18 
 
 Pratt's Law of Building Societies U 
 
 Prendergast's Mastery of Languages n 
 
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