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 CHARLES MACKAY. 
 
 AUTHOR OF " BARON GRIMBOSH," " UNDER THE BLUE SKY,' 
 
 " A man's heart," etc., etc. 
 
 YOL. I. 
 
 LONDON: 
 
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 PALL MALL. S.W. 
 
 1881. 
 
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 I/. / 
 INTHODUCTIO^. 
 
 If the gentlest of gentle readers who may be 
 attracted by the title of this story expect to find 
 in it any unconscionable amount of what is 
 erroneously called " sensation," if they hanker 
 after details of bigamy, seduction, or mysterious 
 murder, if they desire to sigh over the un- 
 merited afflictions of a beautiful governess, or 
 to admire the all but superhuman skill, in- 
 genuity, and cunning of a detective police officer, 
 with more brains in his head than Lord Thur- 
 low, or any other Lord Chancellor, who looked 
 wiser than it was possible for any legal luminary 
 to be, he or she need not turn the page. But 
 if he or she can be interested in anything so 
 common as the loves, the hopes, the fears, the 
 joys, the sorrows, the fortunes, the misfortunes, 
 the ups and downs, the reverses and the suc- 
 cesses of the sons and daughters of an ordinary 
 Enghsh household, told in language that, if un- 
 pretending, aspires to be good English, with 
 every word in its proper place, and no words 
 
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 IV INTEODUCTION. 
 
 too many, they can read on, and find such 
 entertainment as they may. 
 
 It is "a plain, unvarnished tale," that the 
 author has told, and if here and there the 
 incidents may appear to be extravagant, the 
 extravagance, if such it be, is not to be attributed 
 to the invention of the writer, but to his perhaps 
 too obstinate and literal adherence to a fact which 
 he knew to be a fact ; that is to say, if he or 
 anybody else knows anything to be a real, 
 indubitable fact, which is far more than the 
 author would like to assert of anything. 
 
 Anyhow, he has not written the book idly, 
 but with as much conscientiousness as any Arch- 
 bishop ever put into a sermon. Not that he 
 considers, or wishes any reader, gentle or un- 
 gentle, to consider his novel to be a sermon, or 
 anything like one. Perhaps, like the epistle of 
 Robert Burns to his " young friend," one of the 
 hnest of his immortal poems, there may be more 
 of song in it than of sermon, and more of a 
 faithful portrayal of the virtues and the follies 
 of human life in our day and society than of 
 either. Vogue la galere. 
 March 7, 1881.
 
 LUCK; 
 
 AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 It was five or six weeks before the close of the 
 Parliamentary session of 1869, that a somewhat 
 portly and highly respectable Englishman was 
 sitting one fine afternoon in the reading-room 
 of the Hotel du Louvre at Paris, awaiting the 
 dilatory proceedings of his wife and two daugh- 
 ters above-stairs, who were adorning themselves 
 after the fashion of their sex to accompany him 
 to a little dinner in the Palais Royal, at a well- 
 known restaurant especially famous for its good 
 I. 1
 
 2 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 cookery and its superexcellent white Hermitage. 
 He was engrossed with his " GaKgnani," or 
 seemed to be, when a page entered with a tele- 
 gram for "Monsieur Haughton." Taking the do- 
 cument, and wonderina; whether it contained o-ood 
 news or bad, but supposing it likely, as most 
 people do when such a missive arrives unex- 
 pectedly, that its contents would be unpleasant, 
 he opened it and read: " Pendleton is dying; 
 return immediately ! " The recipient of the 
 message was Mr. Archibald Haughton, of Mill 
 Haughton, near Swinston, in the Fens, and the 
 sender Avas Mr. Octavius Little, the principal 
 partner in the firm of Fargo and Little, the 
 leading and highly respected solicitors in the 
 town of Swinston aforesaid. Mr. Hauo:hton did 
 not receive the document with any particular 
 satisfaction. It interfered with the arrange- 
 ments he had made for his annual holiday, 
 which he had well earned by sedulous attention 
 to his business for eleven months, and whatever 
 might be the case with Madame, his mfe, he was
 
 luck; and what oame op it. 3 
 
 tolerably certain that it would greatly ruffle the 
 
 inward serenity of Mesdemoiselles, his daughters, 
 
 even although they resigned themselves, as they 
 
 were bound to do, after a straggle more or less 
 
 severe, to Fate and to necessity. It was, he 
 
 thouo-ht, somewhat inconsiderate and unkind ni' 
 
 Mr. Pendleton to die just at that particular time ; 
 
 and Mr. Haughton in his secret heart would 
 
 have been very much obliged to him, if he had 
 
 postponed the event to the close of the holiday 
 
 season. It was a pardonable characteristic of 
 
 Mr. Hausfhton to banish from his mind at dinner 
 
 time all thoughts of business, and all sorts 
 
 of unpleasantnesses, in whatever they might 
 
 consist. He therefore resolved to say nothing 
 
 of the telegram until after that meal was over, 
 
 or until in the regular course they had arrived 
 
 at the dessert, the cafe noir and the jpetit verve. 
 
 When he thought the proper moment had 
 
 come, Mr. Haughton showed the telegram to his 
 
 wife. That lady comprehended the situation in a 
 
 moment, and advised her husband to take the 
 
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 4 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 early train next morning for Boulogne. " In 
 fact," she said with a pleasant Scottish accent, 
 " 3^e should go the night, were it possible, and 
 leave me and the lasses here for a week or so, 
 until ye either send for us, or come back to us : 
 a begun turn, ye see, Archie, is half ended." 
 
 " Yes, yes ! " said Mr. Haughton, " but, as you 
 sometimes say in your incurable Doric, "it is 
 better to be sonsy than soon up." 
 
 " Oh you'll be sonsy enough, Archie, never fear, 
 and soon up as vveel. So haud awa' hame, and 
 be no later in startin' than the morn's mornin'." 
 
 Mr. Haughton, being a sensible man, took his 
 wife's advice, with all the greater readiness per- 
 haps because it was whully in accordance with 
 his own opinion. And while he is on his way to 
 Swinston, viaFolkstone and London, it will be as 
 well to let the reader know Avho Mr. and Mrs. 
 Haughton were, and how the probable death of 
 Mr. Pendleton affected them. 
 
 Mr. Pendleton was the sitting member for 
 the Borough of Swinston, and Mr. Octavius
 
 LUCK : AND WHAT GAME OF IT. 
 
 Little knew that, in the event of a vacancy, his 
 client, Mr. Haughton, would very much like to 
 fill it, with or without a contest. Mr. Haughton, 
 at the age of five-and-twenty, had succeeded to 
 the business of his father, a miller and malt- 
 ster. And a very comfortable business it was — 
 even without the thirty thousand pounds and 
 upwards in ready money which his father had 
 left behind him. To that business he had added, 
 at the midway station between his thirtieth and 
 fortieth year, a manufactory of agricultural 
 machinery and implements, which had prospered 
 so well in his hands, by the time at Avhich we 
 make his acquaintance, that he gave employ- 
 ment to about tw^o hundred people. 
 
 His father was the portionless younger son of 
 an English baron of ancient family, a certain 
 Lord Ravelstone, who was unfortunate enous-h to 
 possess a ver}^ large amount of pride and a very 
 small amount of income. In early life, towards 
 the end of the eighteenth century, this son of a 
 poor lord, who was a freer and a happier man
 
 6 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 than his father, inasmuch as he had no burden 
 of pride or of debt to stagger under, and 
 thought that no honest work however apparently 
 mean could be dishonourable, had betaken him- 
 self to America, where, after a year or two of 
 wandering and of experiments in the art of 
 earning a good deal of money and living upon 
 very little, he had become the possessor of a 
 saw- mill, a corn and gristmill, and a valuable 
 " water privilege," on the James River in 
 Virginia. He married a Virginian lady with 
 some property, and was so well pleased with 
 America that he would have been contented to 
 live and die there had the health of his wife 
 permitted. But seven years after marriage — 
 during which he had greatly prospered — the 
 repeated and anxiously expressed desire of Mrs. 
 Haughton to visit England induced him to sell 
 his lands and his mills, and convert his property 
 into ready money, with the view of relinquishing 
 business, and of travelling for awhile in, or per- 
 haps of permanently residing in, the land of his
 
 lock; and what came or it. 7 
 
 ancestors. Jt was at first his intention to li^e 
 quietly on the interest of his money, but after a 
 lew months of travel through the old scenes, 
 familiar to him in his youthful days, and which 
 were celebrated in the history, poetry and 
 tradition of his native land, he found that his 
 time began to hang heavily upon his hands, 
 lie was a man of active habits, and though by 
 no means devoid of literary taste or intellectual 
 resources, he pined for occupation. 
 
 He had tw^o sons and a daughter, born to him 
 in America, for whom he desired to provide for- 
 tune and position. He consequently determined to 
 resume business, without very much caring what 
 the business might be, provided that it profitably 
 employed his time, his talents, and his capital. 
 By accident he heard of a property to be disposed 
 of near Swdnston, on the death of the proprietor, 
 consisting of a freehold farm of two hundred 
 and forty acres, of a water-mill, and a windmill. 
 The late occupant had been farmer, miller, and 
 maltster, all in one, and it suited the tastes of
 
 8 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 Mr. Haughtoii to continue the same pursuits, all 
 of which he w^ell understood. The good fortune 
 that attends on good management, good sense, 
 and economy, followed him in England as it had 
 done in America ; and Mr. Haughton of Mill 
 Haughton became a prosperous citizen. Nobody 
 knew that he was the son of a lord, he had never 
 assumed the courtesy title of " Honourable," 
 and not the least suspicion was entertained by 
 his neighbours and customers of his aristocratic 
 descent. Tn short, nobody knew anything of 
 his family, except his wife and his confidential 
 lawyers, Messrs. Fargo and Little, all of whom 
 had his instructions to keep their own counsel, 
 and say nothing. To have letters addressed to the 
 Honourable Archibald Haughton, miller and 
 maltster, did not suit either his commercial or 
 his democratic ideas ; and even the conventional 
 title of Esquire, which everybody accepts, seemed 
 to him to be ridiculous. 
 
 His eldest son — who succeeded to his business 
 and to a third share of his personal fortune, in
 
 luck; and what came of it. 9 
 
 the year 1841, the gentleman whose holiday 
 tour was interrupted at Paris in the manner 
 and for the purposes already described — shared 
 in all the democratic tastes and ideas of his 
 father. At the time our story opens he was 
 in his fiftieth year, but looked younger. He 
 was above the medium heig'ht, had a fresh rosv 
 countenance, thick dark-brown hair, without a 
 grey streak, or even a suspicion of approaching 
 baldness. To please Mrs. Haughton, wdio thought 
 that men wath much hair on the jaw^s never had 
 much on the top of their heads, he w^ore no 
 beard. He had quick grey eyes, a delicate white 
 complexion, a mouth and nose that were neither 
 " cut '" nor " chiselled," though the great Mrs. 
 Slipslop and other fashionable lady novelists would 
 very likely so describe them if they were telling 
 this storv : but the features aforesaid were formed 
 by bountiful mother Nature, in such a manner 
 as to convey the impression, w^hich was not 
 erroneous, of the possession by their owner of 
 intellect and good humour, not unmingled wdth
 
 10 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 some degree of irascibility and an impatience of 
 contradiction. He was a handsome man, as every 
 woman admitted ; and he was a manly man, as 
 his own sex admitted also, if they ever thought 
 or spoke about him, which was not often except 
 in the way of business. 
 
 Mr. Haughton had married for love. He was 
 not ashamed to confess, and he had never had 
 occasion to regret the fact. His marriage came 
 about very simply and naturally. The year after 
 his father's death he had made a pedestrian ex- 
 cursion through the Highlands of Dumfriesshire, 
 and at the close of a long summer day, when 
 footsore and weary, and faint for want of food, 
 lie found himself unable to walk five miles fur- 
 ther to the nearest inn. He made bold to knock 
 at the door of a farm-house, somewhat above the 
 average in size and a])pearance, and to ask for 
 food and lodging for the night. The door was 
 opened by a handsome young woman of twenty, 
 bright, blooming, and cheery. She wore the 
 kirtle and the snood, was scrupulously clean and
 
 luck; and what came of it. 11 
 
 neat, and, as was the custom in Scotland anion sr 
 the young of the rural population, wore neither 
 shoe nor stocking;. The latter circumstance did 
 not surprise, but rather pleased the traveller, for 
 the exhibition of the pretty feet and shapely legs 
 and ancles which it permitted. In answer to 
 her inquiry, in very broad Scotch, of " What's 
 your wull ? " he explained his dilemma ; on 
 which, without further parley, but with a look 
 which seemed to grant the hospitality demanded, 
 she bade him " Come ben," while she made 
 known his arrival to her father. Her father, 
 Mr. John Rutherford, was the Laird of Knock- 
 shoggle, a little farm and estate, that derived 
 its name from two Gaelic words, signifying "the 
 hill of barley." Knockshoggle himself, who was 
 better known by that title than by his patrony- 
 mic, was mixing his second tumbler of whisk}- 
 toddy, preparatory to his retirement for the 
 night, when his eldest daughter — for such the 
 barefooted lassie proved to be — ani^.ounced the 
 stranger's arrival and his wants. Knockshoggle
 
 12 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 would not have refused a common tramp a 
 night's lodging under the circumstances, much 
 less a gentleman. "Come awa', ben!" he said, 
 " and the good wife will gie you your supper ; 
 and I 'm thinking je '11 be none the waur o' a 
 tumbler." The young traveller was of the same 
 opinion, and followed where the Laird led him 
 to the presence of Mrs. Rutherford. Like the 
 goodman's wife in the " Cotter's Saturday- 
 night," that lady had a keen eye for "a strappan' 
 3'outh," and received the stranger with the un- 
 affected cordiality which is so common in remote 
 and solitary districts in Scotland, and among 
 agricultural people. 
 
 The night was both a pleasant and an event- 
 ful one for the roving bachelor. He did not 
 know his fate at the time, did not even think 
 about it ; and had not even the remotest suspicion 
 tliat even his fancy was greatly struck by the 
 charms of Miss Jeanie, much less that his heart 
 had received a lasting im])ression. 
 
 Next year, instead of going to France as he
 
 luck; and what came of it. 13 
 
 had intended, he took his annual hoUday in 
 Dumfriesshire, and did not fail to pay his re- 
 spects at Knockshoggle, and make the better 
 acquaintance of the Laird and his lady, of Miss 
 Jeanie, and her six brothers and sisters — but 
 especially of Miss Jeanie. The Laird was "well- 
 to-do," and as proud of his birth and little estate 
 as if he had been a duke or a marquis, with tens 
 of thousands of broad acres. Mrs. Rutherford, 
 like most Scottish ladies who are wives of landed 
 proprietors, great or small, was an accomplished 
 genealogist, and could trace |)eople's cousins mto 
 the remotest corners. Knockshoggle himself 
 claimed to be related to the Bruces of history 
 and tradition, and the Stuarts ; though, as 
 Jeanie sometimes remarked when the fact was 
 mentioned, " A' Stuarts are no sib to the king"; 
 and Knockshoggle's lady was of the Grahams of 
 Montrose, and half-a-dozen other Highland 
 famihes of renown. 
 
 All this was very amusing but not in the 
 least distasteful to Mr. Archibald liaughton,
 
 14 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. 
 
 and the day before his departure to England, 
 after a pleasant fortnight at Knockshoggle, secure 
 beforehand of the lady's heart, he made a 
 formal demand of her hand in marriage to her 
 father and mother. They were " cannie " folk, 
 and had a keen eye to the main chance, but 
 nevertheless did not look over favourably on the 
 claims of a man who, however handsome, rich, 
 and amiable, was only a miller. But the love- 
 smitten wooer had made known to the lady of 
 his heart the fact of his parentage ; not that 
 he was proud of being related to a lord, but 
 because he thought the little bit of family history 
 would favour his suit with the Laird of Knock- 
 shoo-o^le. The calculation showed his knowledo:e 
 of Scotch human nature. Mrs. Rutherford, well 
 disposed towards him, miller or no miller, no 
 sooner satisfied herself that he was of the Ravel- 
 stone family, than she set herself to the task of 
 overcoming the prejudices of the Laird, and 
 succeeded — as women generally do when they 
 have made up their minds to conquer. And in
 
 luck; and what came op it. 15 
 
 due time Archibald Hauo-hton, of Mill Hausfh- 
 ton, was married to Jean Rutherford, of Knock- 
 shoggle, and took her home to Lincolnshire, 
 where she was cordially received and greatly 
 liked by the bridegroom's mother, who had re- 
 covered her health in England, and gave promise 
 of Ions; life. The new Mrs. Hauo;hton was not 
 only beautiful in person, but was possessed of 
 the more endurins; charm of common sense, 
 lighted up by a racy and agreeable humour, to 
 which her native Doric — which she never tried 
 to amend — lent a peculiar charm, somewhat 
 grotesque at times but always agreeable. She 
 Avas a capital manager, moreover, — could be 
 liberal, and generous even, in the extreme, when 
 occasion called, but looked fast and close to the 
 observance of the golden calculation that two 
 and two are four only ; and that, as she tersely 
 expressed it, " Ye couldna' get mair out of a 
 mutchkin than ye pat into it." As a wife she 
 was a friend and a counsellor, whom it was a 
 pleasure to her husband to consult in difficulty.
 
 16 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 As a mother she was affectionate mthout being 
 weak. As a friend she would leave no honour- 
 able means untried to serve the person on whom 
 her friendship was bestowed ; and in the fulness 
 of a loving heart had no hatred for anything 
 but lying, meanness, hypocrisy, and false pre- 
 tence. The family of Mr. and Mrs. Haughton 
 consisted of one son — Herbert, who had mani- 
 fested an early desire to become an artist — and 
 of two daughters — Euphemia and Hester, com- 
 monly called Effie and Ettie. Mr. Herbert 
 Haughton was twenty-three years of age, and 
 the two daughters were of the respective ages, at 
 the time our story opens, of twenty and eighteen. 
 Mr. Haughton's younger brother having no 
 relish for trade, had after some debate decided 
 upon going into the army, where he had served 
 with some credit, had gone through the Crimean 
 war, and attahied the rank of Colonel. He was 
 now on half-pay, and managed to live a gay, and 
 in some respects, a splendid bachelor life, and 
 supplemented that not very handsome income
 
 luck; and what came op it. 17 
 
 by the interest of the money which he had in- 
 herited from his father. He was a member of 
 three London clubs, and took life in the easiest 
 possible manner, and with the greatest amount 
 of enjoyment which he could extract out of it, 
 without permitting himself the luxury of too 
 much sympathy with anybody. He had no 
 great grievances or sorrows to trouble him, but 
 he managed to make himself uncomfortable, if 
 not unhappy, by small ones, and once groaned 
 for a whole day over his miserable fate, in having 
 had a woodcock served him for his breakfast, 
 instead of a partridge which he had ordered, 
 and on the enjojdng of which he had particularly 
 set his mind ! 
 
 Unlike his brother in this and many other 
 respects, he was particularly unlike him in being 
 proud of his ancestral connections with the 
 Ravelstones. Everybody in the circle of his 
 friends and acquaintances knew his descent from 
 the ninth Baron Ravelstone. Withm the circle 
 
 of the miller and maltster, as we have already 
 
 2
 
 18 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 stated, nobody knew anything of this fact except 
 the members of his own family, who were 
 not particularly proud of it. The one sister of 
 these two brothers, having a portion of thu'ty 
 thousand pounds, and a fair share of good looks, 
 had not been long in the matrimonial market, 
 before she was invaded by a host of suitors. In 
 due time she bestowed herself and her money 
 upon a tall, stiiF, erect, middle-aged gentleman 
 with a small nose and a wide upper lip, 
 who was both a baronet and a clergyman ; a 
 baronet without a shilUng to support that dig- 
 nity, and a clergyman with a benefice of less 
 than a hundred pounds per annum. But the 
 Rev. Sir Lancelot Wyld, Bart., in his marriage 
 with Virginia Haughton (named Virgmia in 
 honour of the land of her mother's nativity) 
 made a bargain not only convenient to him- 
 self, but happy enough for the lady. Sir 
 Lancelot was of the high, the very high church 
 party, and Lady Wyld's ideas, if she had any, 
 were supposed to be as high as her husband's j
 
 luck; and what came of it. 19 
 
 so that on that point there was complete ac- 
 cord between them. They were easy-gomg, 
 unambitious people, and had all the good 
 things of the world at their command. The 
 only drop of bitterness in the pleasant matri- 
 monial cup of this worthy but by no means 
 brilliant couple, was the very improper turn of 
 mind of their only son Lancelot, who delighted 
 in the society of betting men, and had actually 
 made a book on the Derby. To add to the 
 atrocity of the conduct of this young gentleman, 
 he smoked excessively, and had fallen in love with 
 the farrier's daughter at Braxford, the village 
 of which Sir Lancelot was vicar. Both his father 
 and mother thought this was a very wicked thing, 
 wickeder than the smoking and the betting ; 
 because the girl had no money, and because, as 
 a matter of course, no son of the Rev. Sir Lance- 
 lot Wyld, Bart., could possibly commit an act 
 so improper, so unnatural, so abominable, so 
 wrong, and " all that sort of thmg," as to marry 
 the daughter of so common a man as a farrier. 
 
 2 *
 
 20 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 There was desecration in the very thought ; and 
 some stringent measures would have to be 
 adopted, and that forthwith, if the ancient and 
 respectable house of Wyld were not to be irre- 
 trievably disgraced. Not that anything could dis- 
 grace such a house permanently, but still as the 
 Eev. Sir Lancelot thought, Lady Wyld being 
 entirely of his opinion, the Wylds were in the 
 position of Cesar's wife, so great, so pure, so high, 
 that even a suspicion against their immaculate 
 whiteness almost amounted to high treason. 
 
 And now the reader knows all that it is neces- 
 sary to tell of the Ravelstones, the Haughtons, 
 the Wylds, and their surroundings, at the time 
 when this story commences. Mr. Archibald 
 Haughton is on his way to Swinston from Paris, 
 and Mr. Pendleton, Member of Parliament for 
 that ancient borough, is very ill, so very ill, as 
 fully to justify Mr. Octavius Little in sending for 
 his ambitious client, and Mr. Haughton for taking 
 his wife's advice, and his own way in travelling 
 home as fast as steam could carry him.
 
 luck; and what game of it. 21 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 When Mr. Hauo:hton arrived at Mill Hauo-hton 
 he found his friend Mr. Little awaiting him. 
 Mr. Pendleton it was thought could not survive 
 the day ; and the best thing that Mr. Haughton 
 could do under the circumstances was, in Mr. 
 Little's opinion, and his own, to sit do^vn and 
 prepare an address to the free and independent 
 electors, very few of whom were either the one 
 or the other, so as to be ready for publication 
 in the " S^vinston Dove" and the " Swinston 
 Scorpion," as soon after the death of the sitting 
 member as social courtesy would allow. Mr.
 
 22 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 Little had not been idle during the previous 
 two days, and it was generally known in the 
 borough that Mr. Haughton would certainly 
 present himself in the Liberal interest. It was 
 as confidently asserted that that gentleman 
 would not be allowed to walk over the course. A 
 walk over the course was a thing not only highly 
 unpopular, but almost unprecented in Smnston. 
 The "free and independent electors" expected 
 money to circulate on such occasions, and the 
 more candidates there were to circulate it the 
 better for the borough, and for all the honest 
 souls who expected to win an honest or a dishonest 
 penny, directly or indirectly, by the exercise of 
 their political rights. Perhaps a second Liberal 
 candidate might appear in the field, and if such an 
 event occurred, a Conservative would certainly 
 take advantage of it. This was almost the only 
 chance the Conservatives had in this essentially 
 radical borough; and everyone knew that the 
 Conservatives would make the most of it. In 
 fact it was known to a few choice spirits, who
 
 luck; and what came of it. 23 
 
 thought they knew everything, that an emissary 
 of the Carlton Club was at that very moment in 
 Swinston, making no fuss, but looking about him. 
 Mr. Little, though an attorney — knowing all or 
 at least a good many of the secrects of the place, 
 and conversant with the dark as well as the 
 bright side ot the characters of everybody in 
 Swinston, from the parson, the doctor, and the 
 wholesale grocer, down to the veriest pauper in 
 the Union — was a popular man. He was past 
 the prime of life, had a pleasant personal pre- 
 sence, a kindly and courteous manner, a love of 
 right as well as of peace ; and a clear, penetrative 
 intellect, that could pick out logical needles from 
 illogical bundles of straw, with a quickness that 
 was the wonder of his friends, the terror of his 
 foes and of all who sought to deceive him. 
 There was no trace of the pettifogger about him ; 
 and one of the greatest pleasures of his hfe was to 
 heal up differences among his chents, and prevent 
 lawsuits in the borough. The firm was an old 
 and wealthy one, and had quite as much busmess
 
 24 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 as it needed in the management of the ordinary 
 affairs of life within a large surrounding district, 
 the wdlls, the marriage settlements, the transfers, 
 the leases, the bankruptcies, the accommoda- 
 tions, the mortgages, and all the multifarious 
 business in which a lawyer's skill and intelligence 
 are so necessary, and required no lawsuits to 
 keep it going. It throve upon peace, not upon 
 war. There was of course a Conservative as 
 well as a Liberal lawy^er in the borough ; not that 
 Mr. Little was not a good Conservative in heart — • 
 most elderly gentlemen are — but professionally 
 he always acted in elections in the Liberal in- 
 terest. Mr. Smedley, the Conservative lawyer, 
 was a younger man, and had graduated in ths 
 office of Fargo and Little. He consequently 
 knew the weight, influence, and ramifications of 
 that firm too well to be discontented with the 
 comparatively subordinate rank which he knew 
 that his own, or any other legal establishment 
 in the borough, must occupy as long as Fargo and 
 Little carried on business within its limits.
 
 luck; and what came of it. 25 
 
 Mr. Little and Mr. Smedley met in the High 
 Street on the day of Mr. Haughton's return 
 home, and exchanged greetings as cordially as 
 if they had not been, for the nonce, political and 
 legal foes. 
 
 "Pendleton can't outlive the night," said 
 Smedley. 
 
 " I know it," said Little. 
 
 " You're ready with your man, of course," said 
 Little. 
 
 " Of course, and you with yours," said 
 Smedley. 
 
 " Ready, and sure to win," said Little. 
 
 " Not sure," said Smedley, "for I hear that 
 you will have two strings to your bow, two 
 Simon Pures, tAVo Dromios, one of whom will be 
 certain to eat up the other." 
 
 *' Aye, aye," said Little, " some furtive Liberal 
 or other, with more vanity than reputation, will 
 come and smell at the toasted cheese ; but he 
 won't bite when he knows how strong a mouse 
 is in possession."
 
 26 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 And so they parted. 
 
 That night Mr. Pendleton died ; and that 
 night, by the advice of Mr. Little, the tele- 
 graphic wii'es summoned Mrs. Haughton and 
 her two daughters back to their home. 
 
 " We can't get on without the ladies on such 
 occasions," said the lawyer. " They can do 
 more impudent things than men, and can ask 
 for favours when any male creature would 
 rather fight a dragon. No canvas is worth a 
 dump without the women." 
 
 " Hang the canvas ! " said Mr. Haughton im- 
 patiently. " If there is one thing in the world 
 which I detest, it is canvassing. It is a dirty 
 door by which men enter into Parliament ; and 
 how I am to go and sneak, and palaver, and 
 humbug, and lie, and ask people for their votes, 
 who ought to give them to me without asking, 
 if they share my political opinions, and are fit 
 to exercise political privileges, I scarcely know. 
 I wish it were a penal offence on the part of a 
 candidate to ask a man for his vote."
 
 luck; and what came of it. 27 
 
 " But it ain't," replied Mr. Little ; " and if 
 you want to get into Parliament, you must go 
 through the door that leads to it, dirty or not 
 dirty, and hold up your coat-tails or not, as you 
 may see fit." 
 
 Mr. Haughton groaned. 
 
 " I am in for it and shall go through with it. 
 I must shake hands with fellows I despise ; hob- 
 nob with drunken vagabonds ; admire the ugly 
 old wives of disreputable cads ; kiss the dirty- 
 nosed children of boosy mechanics ; and, worse 
 than all, submit to be catechised by fools in 
 public meetmgs about matters of public policy, 
 which the fools don't understand. But as I said, 
 I am in for it : and once I make up my mind to do 
 a thing, it is my principle and my policy to do it." 
 
 In due time Mr. Haughton' s address to the 
 " Free and Independent Electors " covered all 
 the vacant walls in the borough, — was exhibited 
 in all the shops of which the keepers considered 
 themselves as belonging to the Liberal party, where 
 it had the place of honour ; and in some other
 
 28 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 shops, of which the keepers were Conservative, 
 where it was not so conspicuously exhibited ; 
 was praised in the " Swinston Dove," and de- 
 nounced in the " Swinston Scorpion," the one 
 finding it sound, strong, admirable, and states- 
 manlike, and the other looking upon it as poor, 
 weak in style and argument, and detestable in 
 its principles. Mr. Gladstone was in power, and 
 the main duty of a liberal representative in that 
 day was to support that statesman — quand meme 
 — to make things pleasant, and to put off the 
 evil day that everybody thought Avould come, 
 sooner or later, upon the Liberal party. 
 
 The Emperor Napoleon was in the height of 
 his glory and power, and most people thought 
 that he had a firm hold on the favour of the 
 masses of the nation, and that his dynasty was 
 permanently established. The three great ques- 
 tions that for the moment particularly excited 
 the political mind in Swinston — Conservatives 
 and Liberals — were the Education question, the 
 Alabama claims, and the further reform of Par-
 
 luok; and what came of it. 29 
 
 liament ; and as Mr. Haughton had the mis- 
 fortune to disagree with the Radical — or extreme 
 party — on two of them, it was thought that he 
 would have to play his cards very cleverly if 
 he had made up his mind to win. It was, how- 
 ever, a characteristic of Mr. Haughton that he 
 had the courage to speak his mind and to be 
 loyal to his convictions, and those who knew him 
 best knew that he would rather be defeated than 
 be false to his own conscience on any political 
 or moral question whatsoever. 
 
 The day after Mr. Haughton's address ap- 
 peared in the London newspapers the great Mr. 
 Wordy, the fashionable novelist, who imitates so 
 prettily the gabble of girls, anxious for a seat 
 in Parhament, arrived at Swinston to feel his 
 way — invited, it afterwards turned out, by Mr. 
 Barnaby the grocer, a lay preacher among the 
 Methodists, who thought a negro was not only 
 as good as a white man, but a great deal better ; 
 and who maintained that all the liberties enjoyed 
 by the British people were of small account
 
 30 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 compared with that great liberty which was 
 persistently denied them by the base Whigs and 
 the still baser Tories, — the right of giving their 
 votes secretly. Mr. Wordy 's arrival was no 
 sooner divulged than the Tories held a meeting 
 at the " Red Bull," the well-known Tory house, 
 where the county balls were held, and where 
 the landlady made such excellent cheese-cakes 
 that her renown extended in a circle of forty 
 miles in diameter to half a dozen neio-hbourino: 
 counties. In Swinston the Tory colour was pink 
 and the Liberal colour blue ; and the pink 
 banner no sooner floated from the first-floor 
 window, over the door of the " Red Bull," than 
 every voter in the borough — whatever his party 
 — rubbed his hands in glee, or would have done 
 so had the spirit prompted him, at the thought 
 of a contest. That very evening, a highly Con- 
 servative address, swearing by Lord Derby and 
 Mr. D' Israeli, was issued by Lord O'Monoghan 
 — an Irish peer, but in the eyes of the law and 
 of Parliament only a commoner, like the late
 
 luck; and what game of it. 31 
 
 Lord Palmerston. The " Swinston Dove " — the 
 Liberal mouth-piece — roared its wrath, as if it 
 had been a raging lion, against this document, 
 and the " Swinston Scorpion " — the Conservative 
 organ — forgetting that its function was to sting, 
 came forth with columns of the blandest and 
 sweetest words, extolling the wisdom and the 
 statesmanship of the Irish lord, and conjuring 
 all friends of our glorious constitution in church 
 and state to support him early at the poll, and, 
 in this manner, save "the ship of State from 
 being wrecked among the rocks and breakers 
 into the midst of which that incompetent Captain 
 and renegade, Mr. Gladstone, and his revolution- 
 ary crew had led it, to meet certain destruction, 
 unless such a pilot as Lord O'Monaghan should 
 be sent to the rescue by the independent and 
 enlightened borough of Swinston — a borough 
 upon which the eyes, not only of all England, but 
 of all Europe — and, indeed, of the whole world, 
 if not the sun and moon and all the planets — 
 would be fixed during the next fortnight."
 
 32 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 And while this paper war was raging in 
 Swinston with the great intensity of wars that 
 break out in small places, a certain important 
 section of the " free and independent electors " 
 was summoned, by secret missive, to meet at the 
 old appointed rendezvous — a little public-house 
 with the sign of the " Dunderhead." This sec- 
 tion of voters were generally known and called, 
 from their place of meeting, the " Dunderheads." 
 These gentlemen, to the number of ninety- two, 
 were not only " free and independent electors," 
 but " free men of the borough " — free because 
 they had served their apprenticeship of seven 
 years to various trades within the borough boun- 
 daries, and possessed a vote in virtue of that 
 fact, irrespective of the amount of annual rent 
 they paid, if they paid any at all, or of their 
 contributions, direct or indirect, to the taxation 
 of the country. Individually they may have had 
 principles and ideas, though the supposition is 
 extremely hazardous ; collectively they had none 
 except the one great, paramount, and ruling
 
 LCCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 33 
 
 principle— that votes were worth money ; and 
 that it was the duty of every Dunderhead to 
 stand by his brother, and of all the Dunderheads 
 to stand together in extorting from one or other 
 of the candidates — no matter which — the utmost 
 possible amount of hard cash, as a gratuity 
 (some might call it payment, and stigmatise it as 
 bribery — they didn't), which the hopes, the fears, 
 or the generosity of said candidate — Whig, 
 Radical, or Tory, constructive or destructive — 
 might induce him to part with. 
 
 The chairman of the Dunderheads was one 
 Blobb, a shoemaker ; and Blobb, on this occasion, 
 feeling the full dignity and responsibility of his 
 office, summoned his friends to council. Their 
 council was secret, thou oh its result was not. 
 Between a Liberal and a Conservative — if the 
 contest were pretty close — they the ninety-two 
 Dunderheads could turn the scale of victory to 
 whichever side they pleased, if they all acted 
 together — and when did a Dunderhead desert a 
 Dunderhead ? and, for the victory, would fifty 
 I. 3
 
 34 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 pounds per Dunderhead be too dear ? No, said 
 Blobb ; it would be cheap at a little more — say 
 five thousand pounds in one lump. And all the 
 Dunderheads agreed with him. To obtain the 
 payment of this sum — or as much of it as pos- 
 siole — it was the bounden duty of all true Dun- 
 derheads "to set their shoulders to the wheel, 
 with a long pull, and a strong pull, and a pull 
 altogether." These were the very words of the 
 great Blobb in the speech which he delivered to 
 the " brethren " on the very night after it had 
 become certain that the Tory candidate meant 
 to contest the seat with the Reformer — words 
 which were received with very vehement ap- 
 plause — the knocking of hands upon the table in 
 the parlour where the Dunderheads assembled, 
 with all the secresy and much of the formality'' 
 of a Masonic lodge. 
 
 Meanwhile Mr. Haughton and his committee, 
 and Lord O'Monaghan and his committee, were 
 alike cognisant of the doings and the plottiugs 
 and the expectations of Mr. Blobb and his col-
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 35 
 
 leagues, and fully determined to do without 
 the aid of such auxiliaries if the fortunes of 
 the electioneering war allowed. Mr. Wordy, 
 seeinof no chance of success, ^vithdrew from the 
 contest, leaving behind him a graceful address 
 to the " free and independent," informing them 
 of his determination not to imperil the success 
 of a brother Liberal ; and recommending them 
 to vote early for Mr. Haughton, and give him 
 such an overwhelming majority at the outset 
 as would prove to all parties that corruption 
 and Toryism had no chance in Swinston. This 
 was a blow intended to hit the Dunderheads as 
 well as the Conservatives, though the Dunder- 
 heads, as before said, were as utterly innocent 
 of a political predilection as of a moral con- 
 science. 
 
 Mr. Haughton canvassed vigorously. Mrs. 
 Haughton aided effectually, and the youngest of 
 the young ladies did her very best in the way 
 of wheedling and coaxing the shopkeepers. The 
 elder took little or no mterest in the contest, 
 
 3 *
 
 30 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 and held aloof. As the household accounts of 
 Mr. Haughton were regularly paid every month 
 and larger orders in future were promised ; 
 and, moreover, as Mr. Haughton was popular 
 as a large employer of labour, whose men, as 
 yet, had given no threat or even hint of a 
 strike, the work was not so difficult as Lord 
 O'Monaghan found it. True, he was a lord — 
 though only an Irish one — and a "lordship" 
 has always more or less of an advantage in a 
 political contest in places such as Swinston, 
 where there were no lords resident within a 
 circuit of fifty miles. He had also the advantage 
 of the "gift of the gab" — that pernicious gift 
 which, according to a discontented Philadelphian, 
 is the curse of America, and of all free coun- 
 tries ; had kissed the Blarney stone ; could take 
 the sting out of an argument which he could not 
 refute by an irrelevent joke, and make the worse 
 appear the better reason by a mingling of "chaff" 
 and banter and stale old wit, and sometimes a 
 happy stroke of new humour, all cemented and
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 37 
 
 held together in his speeches by a good nature 
 that was as a^enial as the day. He kissed an old 
 woman for her sons' and her husband's vote, with 
 as much gallantry, and apparent pleasure in his 
 eyes and in every action, as he would have kissed 
 the prettiest girl in the borough ; and more than 
 all, he was a handsome man, was not vain of the 
 fact, and did not even seem to know it. No 
 wonder Lord O'Monaghan made a favourable im- 
 pression in the borough. Mr. Smedley was 
 proud of him ; Mr. Little pooh-pooh'd his preten- 
 tions, but was afraid of him nevertheless, and 
 bethought him, occasionally, that if the contest 
 should be very close, and the worst come to the 
 worst, the Dunderheads might be found useful 
 to counteract Lord O'Monaghan's blarney and 
 his winning ways ; not that he thought their pre- 
 vious votes ought to cost fifty pounds a Dun- 
 derhead, or even a tenth part of the money. 
 But the matter was Avorth thinking of as — as a 
 pis-aller, or weapon in reserve. 
 
 The friends of Lord O'Monaghan circulated a
 
 88 LirCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 report, before the day of nomination, that 
 Mr. Haughton, bv his agents, had plainly made 
 known to all his workpeople that he expected 
 their votes, under penalty of dismissal from his 
 employment. On the other hand the friends of 
 Mr. Haughton circulated a report that Lord 
 O'Monaghan was involved in sundry bill-trans- 
 actions, that he was " hard up," that he was a 
 political adventurer, and that he only wanted to 
 enter Parliament to sell himself for a Colonial 
 Governorship, or any other snug little thing that 
 might offer itself for his acceptance, when Mr. 
 Disraeli came into power. Mr. Haughton was 
 iudio:nant at both of these assertions. He had 
 given no countenance or encouragement to the 
 dissemination of any aspersions upon the private 
 character of his opponent, and would rather 
 not enter Parliament at all than be guilty of 
 winninof a seat bv fio-htino; an unfair battle. And 
 he held it as unfair to attempt to influence his 
 own workpeople by threats as to slander his 
 antagonist. Lord O'Monaghan treated the
 
 LUCK ; AND TVHAT CAME OF IT. 39 
 
 attacks upon himself with the greatest good- 
 humour. 
 
 " Let them say what they like," said his 
 Lordship, " they won't hurt me. And suppose 
 I do want a place — what of it ? Does not my 
 respected chief, Mr. Disraeli, want a place — and 
 the best place of all ? and don't I, and all 
 of us wish he may get it ? I won't deny that 
 I'd take the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland, if they 
 would give it me ; and small blame to me ! As 
 for bills and bill transactions, I must own that 
 I think it's dirt}" to talk about them, and I shan't 
 oblige the gentlemen on the other side by imi- 
 tating their example." 
 
 Mr. Haughton was less tolerant of calumny, 
 and at the closing of the factory, on the after- 
 noon of the day when the opposition made their 
 charo-e ao;ainst him, he asked all his hands to 
 remain five minutes while he addressed them on 
 a subject in which they might be interested. 
 His speech was short and to the point. "My 
 friends," he said, "you know my political prin-
 
 40 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. 
 
 ciples ; if yon sympathise with me, vote for me. 
 If you don't like my principles, vote for Lord 
 O'Monoghan. Those who vote for me, shall be 
 none the better, for I scorn to bribe ; those who 
 oppose me shall be none the worse, for I scorn 
 to bear a grudge agamst a man for acting accord- 
 ing to his convictions. In my establishment 
 every man is and shall be free, as long as I am 
 at the head of it, to entertain and act upon 
 what political convictions he pleases. I am a 
 working man myself, and work, I can assure 
 you, quite as hard as any of you. I feel 
 that if I have rights, you have rights also, and 
 that your rights are as good as mine. Need I 
 say more ? " 
 
 Loud applause followed this speech, and the 
 men dispersed with as much good feeling as it is 
 possible for a recipient of wages in the nina- 
 teenth century to entertain for the man who 
 pays them ; and Mr. Haughton, caring very little 
 whether his work-peo])le voted for or against 
 him, was pretty confident in his own mind that
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 41 
 
 he had gained rather than lost by the frankness 
 of his procedure. 
 
 On the morning of the day of nomination all 
 Swinston was in the state of excitement, or 
 fuddlement, w^hich in free countries is usual on 
 such occasions. The " White Lion," the Liberal 
 headquarters, was as blue as the blue sky from 
 basement to roof, and half the cabs in the town 
 were painted, jpro hac vice, of the same refreshing 
 colour. But the blues had not the monopoly. 
 Whole streets gushed out into pink, like gardens 
 of roses in June ; pink cabs, omnibuses, and 
 carts were as plentiful as the blue. And the head- 
 quarters of Mr. Haughton's Committee at the 
 "White Horse" were bedizened with blue placards 
 and blue flags to such an extent that people 
 imagined that the whole stock of blue stuiF and 
 silks in the town must have been put into requi- 
 sition that morning; and possibly this large 
 supply of the important colour had arrived 
 during the night from London. Aklerman Pog- 
 ram — who had thrice served the office of Mayor,
 
 42 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 and had made a cozy little fortune in a double- 
 fronted shop in the High Street, on one side of 
 which he sold stationery, sealing-wax, almanacks, 
 religious literature, and newspapers, and on the 
 other, quack medicines, soap and tooth-brushes — 
 was chosen for Mr. Haughton's proposer. He was 
 an octogenarian, who had suffered for his opinions 
 in the days of his youth, when Sir Francis Bur- 
 dett, Major Cartwright, and Mr. Gale Jones, 
 were leaders of Radical opinion. He never 
 omitted to boast of his early acquaintance with 
 those gentlemen, when he found or could make 
 an opportunity. In like manner he never 
 omitted to denounce the " bloody Castlereagh," 
 and the Peterloo Massacre. He was very 
 popular in the borough. He was too old for 
 anybody to quarrel with, and despite the failing 
 power of his voice he could speak effectually. 
 
 The task of proposing Lord O'Monaghan 
 devolved on Mr. Barnard Strutt, the senior- 
 partner of the old and respectable banking 
 house (" The Bank," par excellence) of Strutt,
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT GAME OF IT. 43 
 
 Blodgett and Co., who scorned to describe his 
 politics by so weak an epithet as Conservative, 
 but avowed himself to be " an out and out Tory 
 • — one of the old school. Sir — Church and State, 
 Sir — the Bible and the Throne, Sir, and no 
 surrender ! " Mr. Strutt wore a queue, and was 
 known as the last of the Pigtails. He was a thin 
 spare man of about sixty-five, whose linen was 
 always spotlessly white — whose clothes were of the 
 clerical cut and colour, and whose hair, neither 
 long nor short, was as white as his linen. He 
 thought that Liberal and Atheist were synonymous 
 terms, and that Old England was rapidly " going 
 to the dogs," for want of statesmanship of the old 
 school, to hold, as he said, the " rascal mob " in 
 order. These two gentlemen made such speeches 
 as everybody expected of them. Major Cart- 
 wright and Lord Castlereagh were duly ex- 
 ploited (the reader must excuse the useful 
 French word, for the Eno^lish lano:ua(2:e does not 
 possess its equivalent) by the worthy Alderman; 
 and Pitt, and George HL and French principles
 
 44 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 were as duly made the most of by the other. 
 Mr. Haughton made a short speech — earnest, 
 practical, and soundly Liberal in its politics — 
 steering clear, however, of the Ballot, and of 
 the American war. Lord O'Monaghan made 
 a much better speech, and kept the audience 
 laughing for a full half- hour, fending off 
 ugly questions with irrelevant jests, meeting 
 chaff with chaff, and joke with joke, but 
 failing, as everyone knew he would, to secure 
 the show of hands. It was pre-arranged and 
 foreknown that the show would be in favour of 
 Mr. Haughton, and a poll, as a matter of 
 course, was demanded by the friends of Lord 
 O'Monau'han. 
 
 On the day of polling, Mr. Haughton at the 
 end of the first hour was upward of one hundred 
 in advance of his opponent ; at the second hour 
 his majority had risen to a hundred and thirty, 
 at noon to one hundred and fifty. Mr. Blobb 
 and the Dunderlieads were digasted. If Lord 
 O'Monaghan and his friends bought up the
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 45 
 
 whole lot of them, Mr. Haughton would still 
 be so much in advance as to be sure of his elec- 
 tion. The calculation was formidable. Mr. 
 flaughton's friends were delighted ; — Lord 
 O'Monaghan's saw no chance of retrieving the 
 fortunes of the day, and were not inclined to risk 
 even a sovereign per Dunderhead, to purchase 
 their votes en masse. What was to be done ? 
 Blobb had an idea, and waited upon Mr. Smedley 
 about half-past twelve in the day, accompanied by 
 his friends and faithful adherents. Miff and Muff, 
 the one a tailor and the other a plasterer, to pro- 
 pose terms of accommodation. What passed was 
 never very exactly known in Swinston, though 
 perhaps it was very correctly surmised. Mr. Blobb 
 came from the presence chamber of the agent, 
 looking not only unhappy but savage, and was 
 heard to mutter something about the political ruin 
 of Swinston as an inevitable thino; if a vote was not 
 considered worth even five shillings. But Blobb 
 was not very easily conquered, although liable 
 to discouragement, and sought another interview
 
 46 LUCK ; AND WHAT GAME OF IT. 
 
 with the plenipotentiary of Lord O'Monaghan, 
 about three o'clock, to make a final proposition. 
 
 " If you must be beaten," said he, " why not 
 be beaten with credit ? Take all our votes, and 
 the t'other side won't have such a thunderin<j' 
 majority as they have now. It will look better 
 for the party. Say five sliillings a head — dirt 
 cheap." 
 
 " Yes," said Smedley, " but dirt may be 
 bought too dear, even at the lowest possible 
 price." 
 
 " Now, hang it," said Blobb, " what's the good 
 of having a vote, if a fellow's to be treated in this 
 manner? which I don't hesitate to say it — hang 
 it all — is a sell and a shame, and downright dis- 
 graceful, and enough to ruin the country ! " 
 
 What the ultimate price paid, if it were 
 paid, Avas not known. But all the Dunderheads 
 voted at the last moment for Lord O'Monaghan, 
 and Mr. Haughton came in at the head of the 
 poll by near upon two hundred, mstead of the 
 three hundred which he might have had, if the
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 47 
 
 Dunderheads had any political conscience, for they 
 all in private avowed themselves to be Liberals. 
 Rumour had it — and though rumour very 
 commonly lies, the general impression in Swin- 
 ston on this occasion, and the confident belief 
 of the wiser and best informed few, was that 
 rumour told the actual truth, — that, rather than 
 gain nothing at all by their votes, the Dunder- 
 heads at the last moment accepted, with 
 sore hearts but thirsty throttles, a pint of ale a 
 piece, as a recognition of the bestowal of 
 their suffrages upon Lord O'Monaghan. 
 Had his lordship gained the election, these 
 pints of ale might have cost him his seat, 
 and his friends some thousands of pounds. But 
 as he was thoroughly defeated, it was worth 
 nobody's while to look up the Dunderheads, or 
 stir about in such a dirty puddle. So the matter 
 dropped. 
 
 That afternoon, immediately that the result 
 of the poll was declared, Mr. Haughton paid a 
 visit to his venerable mother, in her own house
 
 48 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 in S^vinston, where she lived in the style of a 
 lady of the olden times, for she had been left very 
 handsomely provided for. He received her bles- 
 sings and congratulations on the event, which 
 made him a meml:)er of the British Legislature. 
 The bells in old St. S within' s Church rang a 
 merry peal, price eight guineas, and unlimited 
 beer to the bell-ringers ; and all Swinston sat 
 up to a late hour, boozing, fuddling, jollifying, 
 the Liberals drinking because they were trium- 
 phant, the Conservatives domg the same because 
 they were defeated.
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 49 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 Mr. Haughton decided next morning at the 
 breakfast-table, if he had not previously decided 
 in the vigils of the night, that he would imme- 
 diately proceed to London and take his seat. 
 
 " And take us all with you, Papa," Miss 
 Euphemia said. " It's very dull down here at 
 Smnston, and our holiday trip has been ruined 
 by the election." 
 
 " Oh, yes," said her sister, " and take us to 
 
 balls and theatres, and to Mrs. Gladstone's 
 
 parties, and to the Queen's receptions, if there 
 
 ever are to be any more. Won't it be awfully 
 
 joUy?" 
 
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 50 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. 
 
 " Ettie ! " said the new member, with a severe 
 tone, which he assumed towards his youngest 
 daughter at times, " if anj^thing will prevent 
 me from taking you to London it will be yoiu' 
 constant use of slang expressions. Why is it 
 awful to go to a ball or a theatre, and how can 
 anything be awful and jolhj at the same time?" 
 
 " Well, Pa dear," said the young lady, " I will 
 try and speak according to the dictionary, and 
 to Mrs. Chapone, but it is so dreadful slow in 
 this miserable village, no wonder one learns to 
 talk fast, just to be in the fashion of better 
 places, and prepare ourselves for going there." 
 
 " You're an incorrigible little minx," said her 
 father; "what is there dreadful about it? Do 
 you know what dreadful means?" 
 
 " I do ; it means the atmosphere of Swinston, 
 the look of the streets, the ways of the people, 
 and everything about it," said Esther. 
 
 " I dearly love to get out of Swinston for 
 a couple or three months every year," said 
 Euphemia, but I don't think I should like to live
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 51 
 
 in London all the year. That might be really 
 dreadful." 
 
 " \Yeel, lasses," said Mrs. Haughton, "ye '11 
 just live where your father and I live, until ye 
 get married, and then your lords and masters 
 will have to choose for you, ye ken." 
 
 *' Lords and masters ! " said Miss Esther, with 
 a curl of her lip, if not of her nose, " I should 
 dreadfully like to see the man who would be my 
 master." 
 
 *' Nae doot, my dear, ye 'd like to see him," 
 replied Mrs. Haughton, " but he's no turned up 
 yet, the more 's the pity for your father and me 
 as well as for yoursel' ! " And then, addressing 
 herself to her husband, she added, " Archie, we'll 
 no gang up to London wi' ye. The season 's 
 about over, everybody is awa' that can gang 
 awa,' and why should we be landed high and dry 
 on the shore of fashion when the tide has gone 
 out. Just gang by yoursel' and tak' your seat in 
 Parliament like an honest man, and then come 
 hame, and we'll carry out our first intention
 
 52 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 of a holiday, and take it in the Scottish High- 
 lands instead of in Switzerland." 
 
 This little matter had been previously settled 
 between the pair, so the member for Swinston 
 had nothing to do but to confirm his wife's 
 arrangements. 
 
 " Next season," said he to the girls, " we'll 
 go to London, after Christmas, in time for the 
 meeting of Parliament. This season we'll go to 
 the Highlands ; so that 's settled." 
 
 " That 's jolly," said Miss Esther. 
 
 And while Mr. Haughton is on his way to 
 AA'estminster, we may as well say a little more 
 than has been said already about the ladies of his 
 family. 
 
 Mrs. Haughton was still beautiful with the 
 beauty that springs from « contented mind, easy 
 circumstances, a naturally loving and cheerful 
 disposition, a sense of duty, and a good constitu- 
 tion. She looked always on the bright side of 
 things, and had a kind word for everybody. 
 On the ordinar}' failings of men and women she
 
 luck; and what came of it. 53 
 
 looked with a merciful iudgment, especially on 
 those which leaned to virtue's side. She set 
 herself heartily against the most glaring of the 
 modern fashions of her sex ; yielded a little, in 
 self-defence, to the crinoline and the hoop ; but 
 resolutely rejected the chignon, or, as she per- 
 sisted in calling it, the cockernonie. " If my 
 head," she said, " ever gets as bald as a parridge- 
 pat, I'll wear a wig, but while my own hair lasts, 
 whatever its colour — and its no grey yet — I'll 
 never mix the hair of dead or living people 
 along Avith it. None o' your cockernoni'^s for 
 me ' " 
 
 Euphemia, the eldest of Mr. Haughton*s 
 daughters, resembled her mother in form and 
 feature, and in the possession of serviceable and 
 elastic common sense ; but, while the mother was 
 practical, and somewhat prosaic, the daughter 
 was poetical and romantic. She felt deeply, 
 could love and hate with equal force, and had 
 literary aspirations. Her rich brown hair i'ell hi 
 luxuriant masses over her shouldei^s, and w^ould
 
 54 LUCK : AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 have so fallen had fashion permitted. She was of 
 the medium lieioht of women, was affectionate 
 and sensitive, but at the same time very — per- 
 haps exceptionally — proud. Her eyes were blue- 
 grey; her hands and feet very small, but not 
 kept small by idleness or want of exercise, for 
 she worked and Avalked, thus performing two 
 little duties which modern belles are apt to for- 
 get. Though she was accomplished in the lighter 
 graces of girlhood and womanhood, she was not 
 unaccomplished in the utilities, inasmuch as she 
 could cook, and could prepare, almost as well 
 as her mother, an omelette aux fines herbes, and 
 dress a curry and a salad — two very difficult yet 
 easy arts to those who have learned and studied. 
 She could perform on the pianoforte (every little 
 ninny can do that), but what is more, she could 
 perform Avith feeling, which is better than dex- 
 terity, and could sing as if she had a soul in her 
 larynx, which the little ninnies cannot. She was 
 not, however, a paragon of nature — who is? 
 — or anything but a true little woman ; not up to
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 55 
 
 the height of the angels, though, in the estima- 
 tion of some people, who will appear in our 
 story hereafter, she was better than an angel, 
 for the satisfactory reason that she was not too 
 angehc. 
 
 Her sister Esther, otherwise Ettie, was not 
 
 so much like her as to be comparable to a 
 
 cherry grown upon the same stalk. She was 
 
 a pretty girl — or would have been — or might 
 
 have been — if she had not been afflicted with 
 
 the desire of imitating all the affectations and 
 
 frivolities of dress and language, of thought and 
 
 behaviour, of the ultra fashionables of her time. 
 
 She was taller and fairer than her elder sister, 
 
 louder in speech, and, as the Americans would 
 
 say, m costume; and, to some extent — more 
 
 than one lady said to a large extent — aggressive. 
 
 Her whole behaviour seemed to say to the 
 
 male sex, " Propose to me, and let me pass you 
 
 in review. If I like you, I will flirt with you. 
 
 If I like you very much, I may possibly, but I am 
 
 not sure, marry you ; and, if I don't like you, I
 
 56 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 will pretend to, if I can get any pleasure, or 
 even a pair of gloves in a bet, by a clisdainful, 
 or, if need be, a seemingly kind glance of eyes 
 that I know to be bright by the reflection of ray 
 looking-glass." This young lady's chignon was 
 what she herself would have called "awful," 
 and almost tit to match in bulk with the bear- 
 skin hat of the Grenadier Guards. She had no 
 serious love aflkir on hand — or ever had — as far 
 as anybody knew, and if anyone had known it 
 would have been her sister. 
 
 Mention has already been made of another 
 member of the Haughton family, the younger 
 brother of the miller and machinist, and conse- 
 quently the uncle of these two young ladies. 
 Reginald Haughton, though he had never 
 married, was still marriageable, and, as he 
 had not dissipated or thrown away in youthful 
 folly and extravagance more than ten thousand 
 out of his original thirty thousand pounds, he 
 was still looked upon by fashionable mothers as by 
 no means an ineligible bridegroom, especially as
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 57 
 
 he was good-looking, tall, erect, and of soldierlike 
 bearing. But, as the reader must have already 
 suspected from the little affair of the partridge, 
 the Colonel loved himself much too dearly 
 to have much love to spare for anybody else, 
 and was not particularly inclined towards matri- 
 mony. In the mellow autumn of his life his 
 self-love had taken the shape of gastronomy, and 
 he prided himself as being the most accom- 
 plished and most scientific and philosophical 
 gourmet of his time. He was not only a judge 
 of cooking, but a cook ; and boasted that if, by 
 any mischance or perversity of Fate, he was 
 reduced to Ithe necessity of earning his own 
 livelihood, he could command as high a salary 
 as ever was paid to a chef, and that he could teach 
 Francatelli a thing or two which Francatelli 
 would be glad to learn if so great a master con- 
 descended to instruct him. The Colonel spent 
 three hours every day of his life in studying what 
 he should have for dinner ; and how was it to 
 be expected that a man like this could throw
 
 58 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 himself away upon matrimony, unless, indeed, 
 such a paragon of a woman could be found who 
 possessed youth, beauty, good temper, and good 
 fortune, and a devotion to cookery equal to his 
 own? Till such an angel could be found the 
 Colonel thought he would remain single. 
 
 The junior branch of the Haughton family 
 had loner been estrano-ed from and unknown to 
 the elder line. The fact was that when the 
 present Mr. Haughton, the new M.P., was in 
 his infancy, an attempt made by Lord Ravel- 
 stone's father, who was miserably poor, upon the 
 pocket of his opulent brother, had ended so 
 disastrously that Haughton the miller had 
 resolved, for the future, to have nothing whatever 
 to do with Haughton the Lord, whose conduct 
 in their sole pecuniary business together seemed, 
 in his respectable eyes, to be no better than 
 downright robbery and s^^'indling. "■ I have lost 
 ten thousand pounds by his Lordship," said the 
 miller. " That milk is hopelessly spilt; but I wiU 
 take excellently good care that not another drop
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 59 
 
 of milk, not even a pennyworth shall be spilt in 
 that quarter. Henceforward and for ever ' His 
 Lordship ' may bestow his favours in other 
 directions. Extravagance I can forgive, but 
 fraud and lies are not to be tolerated; and all I 
 ask of Lord Ravelstone and his kin is that he 
 and mine may, as Shakespear says, 'be very 
 o-ood strano^ers.' " 
 
 The present Lord Ravelstone was a man close 
 upon sixty years of age, and in his youth had 
 set himself the task of looking out for a wife, to 
 whom and to whose family the possession of rank 
 and title would be as valuable as a fortune would 
 be to him. He did not much care who the lady 
 was, provided she had a few thousands — say ten 
 thousand — a year ; he would not, he thought, sell 
 himself for less, and would take as much more 
 as he could find in the market. Neither did he 
 care m the least degree how her wealth, or that 
 of her father or grandfather, or other relatives, 
 had been acquired. He was of tlie opinion of 
 the Roman Emperor, who levied a tax upon an
 
 60 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 article scarcely ever mentioned except by doc- 
 tors, nurses, farmers, and the manufacturers of 
 guano, that " money did not smell," and that all 
 gold honestly acquired — and even with a slight 
 but not provable suspicion of being not alto- 
 gether honestly acquired — was a good thing, and 
 a thing that the future Lady Ravelstone was 
 bound to possess. Lord Ravelstone was not a 
 man of any particular talent. He was a British 
 peer, and as such could support or oppose the 
 minister of the day; but he cared little about 
 politics, and had never m his life attempted to 
 make a speech, without breaking down in the 
 middle of it in hopeless confusion and bewilder- 
 ment alike of words and ideas. He was therefore 
 not worth a minister's purchase, for all his good 
 and all his harm was confined to his single 
 vote, which did not count for so much in the 
 Mouse in which it was his privilege to sit as 
 it mio^ht have done in the other. He had self- 
 knowledge enough to be aware that politics were 
 not in his line, and, in fact, that nothing was
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. 61 
 
 particularly in his line — except a good income 
 and a quiet life — fashionable or unfashionable as 
 it might turn out, but anyhow, with abundance 
 of leisure to hunt, to shoot, and to fish, and to 
 *' loaf" about the Contmental cities — a mode of 
 passing or killing his time which had grown into 
 a habit, and to which he first resorted in his 
 favourite pursuit of heiress hunting. Nor was 
 his sport in this respect ultimately fruitless. He 
 had made several false moves, and been more than 
 once nearly caught in matrimonial toils by pretty 
 girls, reputed to be heiresses, but who were not 
 heiresses to anything like the extent that he 
 deemed necessary in a woman who was ehgible 
 to the rank and position of Lady Ravelstone. 
 At last, being then in his thirtieth year, he 
 met the predestined person at Paris, a good-look- 
 ing young woman of five-and- twenty, well 
 educated and of good manners. She was the 
 only daughter of a tailor retired from business, 
 and the father was both able and willing to settle 
 fifty thousand pounds upon her, on her marriage,
 
 62 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 if she married accorclino- to his wishes. In 
 addition to this, she had the prospect of as much 
 more when her father died. Mr. Molyneux, the 
 tailor in question, had not amassed all his wealth 
 in the strict line of his business, but had done a 
 good deal of quiet and lucrative bill-discounting 
 for his customers, and was kno^vTl. in the slang ot 
 the day, to be a " warm " man long before he 
 finally shut up his shop and betook himself to the 
 enjoyment of his money. Lilias Molyneux had 
 been two or three times in love, or had fancied 
 so, before she met Lord Ravelstone, but her 
 heart was whole ; and she not only liked the 
 young nobleman, who pretended to love her for 
 herself alone, without reference to *' dirty dross," 
 but highly enjoyed the idea of becoming a peeress. 
 At the time this story opens, Lilias Molyneux 
 liad been Lady Ravelstone for thirty years, and 
 liad borne to his lordship six daughters and one 
 son, the latter being the youngest of the flock, 
 and in his twentieth year. Mr. Molyneux had 
 been well satisfied with the match which his
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 63 
 
 daughter had made, and, being desirous of main- 
 tainmg the Ravelstone peerage in becoming 
 dignity in the person of his daughter's only son, 
 had bequeathed that young gentleman the hand- 
 some sum of one hundred thousand pounds, 
 to be paid to him on reaching his majority. 
 Bearing in mind the possibility that the 
 young man might die before that time, he left 
 the money, in the event of his decease, to the 
 heir of the peerage, thinking that his daughter 
 might yet bear another or several sons, and not 
 taking into account the fact that, if that or those 
 events did not occur, his hundred thousand 
 pounds might go into hands which he had no 
 desire to befriend, and of whose existence, present 
 and proximate, he was wholly unaware. But 
 being his own lawyer in the matter of will- 
 making, this little possibility escaped his atten- 
 tion. 
 
 Mr. Molyneux was not ashamed of his business. 
 He mamtained that tailoring was, next to gar- 
 dening, the most ancient and respectable of
 
 64 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 callings, and that all the Kings, Emperors, 
 Popes, Princes, Dukes, Marquises, Earls, Barons, 
 Baronets, &c. were descended from Adam, a 
 man who was both a tailor and a gardener, 
 and Avas compelled by the hard necessities of his 
 existence to be both. He served the office of 
 Sheriff of London and Middlesex, being opposed 
 bv another candidate who had made a fortune as 
 a saddler. The saddler affected to despise the 
 business of a tailor, and thought it would be 
 a disgrace to the great city of London if such 
 a man were elected to so dignified an office. 
 
 " I don't see the disgrace," said Mr. Moly- 
 neux, "and if there be any disgrace in the 
 matter it would be in the election of a saddler. 
 A saddler makes clothes for horses, whereas a 
 tailor makes clothes for men ! which is clearly a 
 higher and more dignified calling." Mr. Moly- 
 neux died just before his grandson, the heir to 
 the peerage, had attained his fifteenth year, so 
 that the handsome sum he bequeathed to him 
 would be increased, by the time he came of age,
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 by the careful accumulations of six years. The 
 young man was very unlike, or very superior to 
 his father. His university career was highly 
 distinguished ; and he manifested a decided in- 
 clination as well as aptitude for political life, and 
 continually expressed a desire to enter parlia- 
 ment. It was his opinion that the growth of 
 democratic ideas was so rapid in England, that 
 no public man could properly do his duty to his 
 country, and understand the tendencies of modern 
 political and religious thought, who had not 
 studied the working of extreme principles in the 
 government of the United States. He also 
 desired to make the grand tour, not as our 
 grandfathers understood the word, but as the 
 moderns in the second half of the nineteenth 
 century understand it, the tour round the habit- 
 able globe, from London to Cairo, Calcutta, 
 Canton, Yeddo, Melbourne, San Francisco, 'New 
 York, to Liverpool, and all the places that lie 
 between. Lord Ravelstone was not originally 
 a very lovable or loving man, but a wife who 
 I. 5
 
 66 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 had turned out a great deal better than he had 
 any right to expect under the cn'cumstances, a 
 fan' income, good health, and a handsome family, 
 had developed the dormant good qualities in his 
 nature ; and he had ended by becoming a very 
 good husband and father. But if he loved one 
 object on the earth more than any other, or than 
 all others combined, it was the long-desired son, 
 the heh' to his title, who promised in the fulness 
 of time, not to draw lustre from, but to confer 
 lustre upon it. To this boy he would deny 
 nothing, and as all the young man's wishes were 
 reasonable, and, in fact commendable, there was 
 no necessity for putting any curb upon his in- 
 clinations, and when his son expressed a strong 
 desire to travel round the world, and spend a few 
 months in the United States, in studying the 
 working of the great political machine in that 
 mighty Republic, before he presented himself 
 before an English constituency as a candidate for 
 parliamentary honours, the father resolved that 
 he should have his way, and that he himself
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 67 
 
 would be the companion of his journey. Lady 
 Ravelstoae strongly objected; but if she had had 
 no daughters to attend to, would have made up 
 her mind to accompany her husband and son. 
 But this could not be accomplished, and she 
 reluctantly consented to be left behind, for the 
 eight or nine months during which, if all went 
 well, the journey could be accomplished. The 
 father and son had been absent for six months 
 at the time when Mr. Haughton was elected to 
 the representation of Swmston. Lady Ravel- 
 stone knew nothing whatever of the younger 
 twigs of the Haughton tree, or that his lord- 
 ship had any relations, for he never mentioned 
 them ; she had seen the announcement in the 
 newspapers that a Mr. Haughton, a miller, had 
 been elected to parliament, and had wondered for 
 a moment whether he might not be some remote 
 connection of the family. "But Haughton is a 
 common enough name," thought her ladyship, 
 " and not nearly so aristocratic as Molyneux." 
 And so she dismissed the subject from her 
 
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 68 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 mind, and never thought anything more 
 about it. 
 
 Behold some of the dramatis personce of our 
 story! others, and possibly of more importance 
 and of more interest than these, will appear in 
 due course. In the meantime, the loves, the 
 hopes, the fears, the ambitions, the schemes, and 
 the complications amid which these entangle 
 themselves, will unfold themselves as we proceed.
 
 69 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 Possibly at this stage the reader, if she be of 
 the fair sex, will ask, " Who is to be the hero? 
 It cannot be that hard, respectable, prosaic 
 elderly gentleman, just elected to Parliament, 
 or that still more prosaic and odious old 
 sybarite, his brother? Can it be young Lancelot 
 Haughton Wyld, who loves Patty Tidy, the 
 farrier's daughter? Perhaps it is neither of 
 these, but somebody who is yet to be evolved out 
 of the progress of events ? " Nous verrons. 
 "And who is to be the heroine? Or is there to 
 be a pair of them ? " We shall see that also as the
 
 70 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 narrative flows along, becoming a river instead 
 of a rill. Meanwhile, our immediate business is 
 with the new member, with all his blushing 
 honours thick upon him. 
 
 Mr. Haughton, the " baby of the House," as 
 the last-elected member is called until his nose 
 is put out of joint by one still newer, took the 
 oath and his seat, was duly introduced to Mr. 
 Speaker, and to Mr. Glyn, from whom he 
 received a cordial shake of the hand, and a 
 kindly greeting. Mr. Glyn knew what to ex- 
 pect from Mr. Haughton, by his address to the 
 electors of Swinston, and, though the urbane 
 and accomplished whip was told that the new 
 member was thoroughly independent, a man 
 who neither wanted place nor dignity, and who 
 had a will and a way of his own, he thought 
 he might depend upon him on all great occa- 
 sions to support Mr. Gladstone. In this Mr. 
 Glyn was right; and although the new member 
 shied a little, and was occasionally restive about 
 small matters, he was on the ^vhole a trust-
 
 LUCK ; Ai\D WHAT CAME OF IT. 71 
 
 worthy voter. Mr. Haughton found several 
 communications addressed to him at the House, 
 with the beautiful letters M.P. after his name (for 
 in those early days of his parliamentary career, 
 he did see a very great charm in those two con- 
 sonants), and was somewhat surprised and dis- 
 gusted to find that more than half of them were 
 printed circulars from certain rival dealers in 
 waste-paper, offering him the highest market price 
 for his Parliamentary Papers and Blue Books. 
 
 " This is abominable ! " said Mr. Haughton to 
 himself. " If these books are in request for the 
 butter- shops and the trunk-makers, or for the 
 paper-mills to grind them into pulp again, before 
 they are read, why should they be printed? It 
 costs the nation three or four hundred thousand 
 pounds a year to issue the parliamentary docu- 
 ments that come to these base uses. I shall 
 inquire into this matter, and reform it." And 
 the new member, being determined to distinguish 
 himself, made a note in his pocket-book, for 
 future reference.
 
 72 LUCK : AND WHAT CAME OP IT. 
 
 That evening he dined by invitation with an 
 old acquaintance, Mr. Rigglesby, Member for 
 the Irish borough of Kihnacnoise, at the Whig- 
 gamore Club in Pall Mall. His brother, the 
 Colonel, and his late rival. Lord O'Monaghan, 
 had been invited to meet him. There were 
 good dinners to be had at the Whiggamore, 
 recherche dinners, in fact, such as the Colonel 
 loved; and as he had been consulted by Mr. 
 Rigglesby in the morning, and allowed to draw 
 up the menu regardless of expense, the dinner 
 seemed much too elaborate, or, as he called it, 
 " longwinded," to be altogether satisfactory to 
 Mr. Haughton, who by no means shared the epi- 
 curean tastes of his brother. Lord O'Monaghan, 
 always glad of a good dinner when there was 
 nothing to pay, pronounced it a great success, 
 and the Colonel, who thought far more of the 
 dinner than of the meeting with his brother, 
 which gave occasion for it, was equally delighted. 
 Mr. Haughton and the Colonel had few ideas in 
 common. The Colonel was an aristocrat, a Torv,
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 73 
 
 and a high churchman; the new member an 
 advanced Liberal, and a latitudinarian of the most 
 tolerant description. The Colonel despised trade 
 and commerce, though he might have had to keep 
 a shop himself if it had not been for the successful 
 trade and commerce of his father. He thought 
 it a great pity that his brother did not retire 
 upon the fortune he had made, and live like a 
 gentleman. The brother, on the other hand, 
 had no such notions, and thought that he was a 
 gentleman in spite of his mill and his factory, 
 and maintained that in England everybody was 
 more or less of a trader, except the Queen and 
 the members of the Royal Family, and that were 
 it not for trade there might be no Queen and no 
 Royal Family to support. The Duke of Broad- 
 lands was a breeder of and dealer in sheep, oxen, 
 and horses. The Marquis De Fitzadam never 
 gave away a pheasant or a partridge, but sent 
 the whole produce of his own and his friends 
 guns to London, and sold them to the poultry 
 dealers in Leadenhall and New^^ate markets.
 
 74 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 Lord Brooks and Rivers dealt largely in salmon, 
 and drew three or four thousand pounds a year 
 out of that noble fish, though he would not like 
 to be called a fishmonger ; and Trumbull, Baronet, 
 sold the wood that grew in his groves and plan- 
 tations, and netted some hundreds per annum by 
 the sale of his hot-house fruits, and the pears, 
 apples, and cherries in his orchards. " And 
 besides, most of your mighty fine people," he 
 said, " who turned up their noses at trade, were 
 partners under the Limited Liability Act, in 
 all sorts of enterprises. They were carriers and 
 coach proprietors if they held railway shares, 
 and dealers in mutton chops, glasses of ale, 
 beer, and wine, and sleeping accomodation, if 
 they had invested in the Charing Cross, the 
 Cannon Street, the Langham, and other big 
 Hotels. When they lent their names, for a 
 consideration, as Directors and chairmen of 
 Railways, Mines, Banks, Muck Companies, 
 Gas Companies and other projects, were they 
 not dealers in their own titles?"
 
 LUCK ; AND "WHAT CAME OF IT. 75 
 
 The Colonel did not see matters in this light. 
 In fact there were very few subjects on which 
 they could agree; and the brothers, who had 
 seldom occasion to meet, had very little to talk 
 about when they did. But Mr. Haughton's 
 election to Parliament was agreeable to both of 
 them. It added to the Colonel's dignity, as well 
 as to that of his brother and of the whole family, 
 and met with the gallant gentleman's most cor- 
 dial approval. 
 
 " You must be put up for one of the clubs," 
 said the Colonel. " 1 suppose for the Whig- 
 gamore; you cannot get into any of our clubs, 
 or mto the Tag Rag and Bobtail, because you 
 are not a soldier, or a sailor, nor in the Antedi- 
 diluvium, because you are not a Bishop, nor a 
 swell, nor a great philosopher." 
 
 " How did you get into it ? " inquired Mr. 
 Haughton ; " for the middle reason, I suppose ? 
 And why is it called the Antediluvium ?" 
 
 " Latin word," interposed O'Monaghan, "which 
 means ' slow, old-fashioned, dull ' — highly appro-
 
 76 LUCE ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 priate title. But Mr. Haughton must go into 
 the Whiggamore. That's his proper club, and 
 he needs no other." 
 
 " There 's a lot of black-balling at the Whig- 
 gamore, isn't there ? '' inquired the Colonel, of 
 Rigglesby. " I have heard that some candidates 
 are pilled because they have red hau' ; some 
 because they have black or grey ; some because 
 they are bald ; some because their wigs are too 
 juvenile for their faces ; some because they are 
 barristers, and some because they are not bar- 
 risters. Not that the Whiggamore is worse than 
 others ; for at my club a very gallant officer 
 was pilled — he lost his leg in battle — because 
 he would not go to the expense of a cork leg, 
 but insisted upon wearing a wooden one — like a 
 crossing-sweeper, you know ! And another good 
 fellow was pilled — true, on my honour ! only 
 because he Avore straps to his trousers, after the 
 fashion of thirty or forty years ago ! " 
 
 " There 's no fear of Mr. Haughton at the 
 Whiggamore," said Rigglesby ; "though he
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 11 
 
 must not expect to be elected without opposition. 
 Everybody is opposed. The more eminent a 
 man is the more black balls he gets. I was 
 asked only the other day to vote against a man 
 named Jenkins. ' Why ? ' I asked ; ' he is a 
 good man, and a fit man for the club.' ' That 
 may be,' said my questioner, ' but his name 's 
 Jenkins. That 's enough for me. I once lost 
 ten thousand pounds by a man of the name of 
 Jenkins, and no Jenkins shall come into this 
 club if I can help it.' Jenkins got in however." 
 
 " I don't like secret voting at all," said Mr. 
 Haughton ; " whether at clubs or at the polling- 
 booths. I would have everythmg done by show 
 of hands — the good old English method." 
 
 " That would only be fair if there were uni- 
 versal suffrage. But open voting would never 
 answer at the Whiggamore," said Rigglesby. 
 
 " Nor in any other club," said the Colonel. 
 " By the bye, Archie," he continued, addressing 
 himself more particularly to his brother, " there 
 is a story about the ballot at the Antediluvium
 
 78 LUCK ; A.ND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 — a stupid clulj ; I think I shall give it up, for 
 I can't ask a friend to dine with me — which I 
 suppose has not yet penetrated into the dull 
 BcBotian county in which Swinston is situated. 
 A very fussy gentleman, full of self-importance 
 — I won't mention his name, I '11 call him Jones 
 — had set his heart upon being a member of the 
 Managing Committee. He was already an Ante- 
 diluvian, but wanted to serve on the Committee. 
 It is a kind of social distinction to be a member 
 of a club committee — almost the oidy social dis- 
 tinction within the reach of some small people 
 — and Jones being a candidate solicited every- 
 body he knew to vote for him. I never vote 
 for a man who asks me, and think it odious bad 
 taste to canvas, even for a friend. Jones re- 
 ceived a good many promises, but when the day 
 of election came and the balls, or rather the 
 corks, were counted, it was discovered that only 
 one ball had been cast for him. The Honourable 
 Tom Spriggins, a very good-natured fellow, who 
 seldom says ' No ' to anybody, went up to Jones
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. 79 
 
 when the result was announced, to condole with 
 him on his disappointment. ' I wouldn't mind 
 it if I were you,' he said ; ' people are so false ! 
 But at all events, I kept faith.' ' No you didn't,' 
 said Jones ferociously ; 'I cast that ball myself!' 
 The Honourable Tom would have blushed if he 
 could, but he couldn't, and so he pumped up a 
 laugh to hide his confusion. He and Jones have 
 never spoken to one another since, and Jones 
 scowls at him as if he longed to challenge him 
 to the duello, every time that he ' noses ' him in 
 the lobby." 
 
 " I admire neither of the two characters in 
 your little drama," said Mr. Haughton, " and 
 I 'm not sure whether I shall be put u]3 at the 
 Whiggamore. What do I want with a club ? 
 Is not the House of Commons a club in itself, 
 and a very good club too ? Is there not a dining 
 room, a reading room, a writing room, a tea room, 
 a library ; every convenience that one can expect in 
 the best club in London. Thanks to the electors 
 of Swinston, I am a member of that club, and
 
 80 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 cannot be ' pilled ' there, as you call it. Why 
 should I be bothered with another ? " 
 
 " Oh you must," replied Rigglesby ; " you 
 owe it to your party to support the party club ; 
 and you '11 be sure to come in. What signify 
 a few black balls ? He who is not bio: enouo;h to 
 excite some degree of opposition must be a little 
 nobody, whom nobody ever heard of. Get a 
 good projDoser and seconder and you '11 be all 
 right. I '11 neither propose you nor second you 
 myself, for they once ' pilled ' a very good man 
 merely because I proposed him ; but I '11 can- 
 vas for you, and work for you, and get you in, 
 or my name 's not Rigglesby." 
 
 As the character and career of Mr. John 
 Rigglesby were destined to excite a considerable 
 influence upon the fortunes of several personages 
 of our story, it may be well to take the present 
 opportunity of explaining who and what Mr. 
 Rigglesby was. Mr. Rigglesby was a person of 
 no common power and energy. Though still in 
 the prime of his bodily and mental vigour he
 
 luck; and what came of it. 81 
 
 had been twenty years in Parliament, where he 
 had acquired a reputation as a good speaker, who 
 always spoke to the point and with full know- 
 ledge of his subject. He was reputed to have 
 a marvellous talent for organisation, and for the 
 manipulation of minorities. He was once a 
 member of what was called the " Pope's brass 
 band" — a little clique of Roman Catholic mem- 
 bers, who, by always acting together, had the 
 power when divisions ran close of turning the 
 scale of victory to one side or the other, as their 
 wishes or their personal interests might incline, 
 and who were hated and courted accordingly 
 both by the Liberals and the Conservatives. 
 Though a Roman Catholic his religion did not 
 sit heavily on his conscience. All the priestly 
 influence of Kilmacnoise, and Ireland generally, 
 was exerted in his favour at each successive elec- 
 tion at which he was returned, and his vote in all 
 matters affecting his church was *'true as the 
 needle to the pole," or truer, for the needle 
 deflects sometimes and he deflected never. 
 I. 6
 
 82 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 He was a tall, saturnine, very dark com- 
 plexioned man, about forty-five years of age, 
 with a broad brow and lips and chin that mani- 
 fested decision. He generally spoke in short 
 incisive sentences, sometimes smiled grimly, but 
 was never known to give utterance to a hearty 
 honest laugh. 
 
 He was chairman of a bank and of a railway 
 company, a director of silver mines in Nevada 
 and Utah, and a gold mine in California, and 
 was reputed to be wealthy. He was not known 
 to be married : some said he was, some said that 
 he was not ; but what lent credibility to the 
 latter supposition was that all his habits were 
 those of a bachelor, and that during the session 
 of Parliament he breakfasted ever^^ morning, 
 and dined nearly every day, at the Whiggamore. 
 He was not frank and convivial in his manners 
 like his countryman, Lord O'Monaghan, and 
 never asked anybody to dine \vith him, except 
 for a reason — that he wanted his vote, his in- 
 fluence, his assistance, or to make use of him as
 
 luck; and what came of it. 83 
 
 a stepping stone towards an introduction to 
 somebody. He had many acquaintances — few 
 men had more — but he had no friends. There 
 was that in his manner which repelled friend- 
 ship, but he was always deferential to rich 
 men, and rich men liked him because they 
 thought he was one of them, and they had faith 
 in his sagacity. 
 
 On the occasion of this particular dinner, 
 which he had arranged for the purpose of ren- 
 dering more intimate the previous acquaintance 
 Avhich he had with the new member for Swin- 
 ston, Mr. Rigglesby was almost genial in his 
 manner, especially to Mr. Haughton and to Lord 
 O'Monaghan (who owed him money). For 
 Colonel Haughton, as an idler, and a trifler, and 
 a worshipper of his dinner, he felt little but con- 
 tempt, a contempt which was not diminished 
 by the discovery that in all matters of money, 
 except the necessary expenditure incurred upon 
 his back and his stomach, his tailor, and his 
 cook, he was mean, miserly and niggardly in 
 
 6 *
 
 84 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 the extreme. He was not a sybarite himself, 
 and although he loved money (few men loved 
 it so much) it was not for the purpose of selfish 
 or personal indulgence, or even for the sake of 
 amassing it, but for the sake of the power it 
 gave him over the minds and fortunes of his 
 fellow men. If Mr. Rigglesby had a heart (in 
 the metaphorical sense, which most people 
 doubted) and anything was dear to it, it was 
 power. He would have made an unflinching 
 despot if he had been born in the purple of 
 sultanship. In his lower sphere of activity, 
 knowledge w^as power, only inasmuch as it was 
 the power of acquiring wealth, and to that end 
 all his knowledge of men and things was 
 directed. In the rare moments when he did, by 
 accident rather than by design, unbend in the 
 society of a man on whom he desired to create 
 a favourable impression, he was accustomed to 
 boast of himself as the favourite of fortune. " I 
 never undertake anything," he would sa}^, " that 
 does not succeed. I never toss a farthing into
 
 luck; and what came of it. 85 
 
 the air, that does not come do^vn a gumea ! I 
 am a lucky man ! " On one of these occasions, 
 though long before the little dinner, Mr. Haugh- 
 ton had said: "You know the ancient story? — I 
 have forgotten all the Greek that ever was 
 drummed or thrashed into me, but you will 
 possibly find it in Plutarch — I think it was Cre- 
 sus, king of Lydia, who boasted of his good for- 
 tune to Solon, who replied that he could call no 
 man fortunate until he knew the end of him, or 
 something to that effect. For my part, I don't 
 like to boast of Fortune, I am superstitious 
 enough to think that Fortune takes pleasure in 
 playing saucy tricks on those who talk too much 
 of her favours. That is to say, I might think 
 so, if I believed in Fortune or Luck, which I 
 don't. Conduct is fate. That is my maxim. ' 
 
 " But don't you think some men are born to 
 good luck?" asked Rigglesby. 
 
 "No, I don't; some men, no doubt, appear 
 to be lucky. A fool may seem born to good 
 luck, if he is born into a great and wealthy
 
 86 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 family, but he may be a very unfortunate fool 
 for all that. His folly is itself a misfortune; 
 it fact, my notion is that the lot of man and 
 woman in the world, whether they are rich or 
 poor, is pretty nearly equal, and that each is as 
 fortunate or unfortunate as he deserves to be, 
 and no further." 
 
 But the four gentlemen who dined together 
 at the Whiggamore on that evening, held no long 
 discourse on this matter, for Mr. Rigglesby had 
 not sufficient respect for the intellect of either 
 Colonel Haughton or Lord O'Monaghan, to talk 
 upon serious subjects to them, especiallj'^ upon 
 subjects that concerned himself. He liked very 
 well the conversation of Lord O'Monaghan, for 
 his lordship was full of animal spirits and fun, and 
 he amused him ; which on his part Lord O'Mona- 
 ghan was very willing to do, for he had not only 
 borrowed money of Rigglesby, but expected to 
 borrow more, if he kept in the saturnine man's 
 good graces. Mr. Rigglesby liked him, for the 
 reason that he had power over him, and that
 
 luck; and what came of it. 87 
 
 he could exercise it whenever it was, as it was 
 generally with Lord O'Monaghan, a question of 
 money, present or prospective. The talk soon 
 drifted into politics, though there were two upon 
 one side and two upon the other, and they 
 spoke of the Education Bill, of the Ballot, of 
 the Irish Church, and of the Alabama question; 
 on all of which, except on the latter, the new 
 member's opinions were entirely in accordance 
 with those of Rigglesby and the minister of the 
 day. The Colonel cared little about any public 
 question whatever, except the long-threatened 
 reform of the army, the mere discussion of which 
 he thought a proof that the country was gomg 
 to the devil. Lord O'Monaghan's politics lay as 
 easy on his mind as Mr. Rigglesby's religion on 
 his. 
 
 " Bedad," he said in jest, but with an earnest- 
 ness at the bottom of it that Mr. Rigglesby 
 quite appreciated, " though I tried to get in for 
 Swinston, in Mr. Haughton's place, and on the 
 ■opposite side, I'd think Mr. Gladstone as good a
 
 SS LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 minister as ^Ir. Disraeli, if he'd give me a Colo- 
 nial governorship and five thousand a year ; I 'd 
 accept Canada, for instance, which I think i& 
 worth seven thousand." 
 
 " Why don't you come over to the Liberals at 
 once," said Kigglesby. " How an Irishman and 
 a Catholic can be a Tory, I can't make out." 
 
 " Make it worth my while," said his Lordship. 
 " But so far 1 am a Liberal already. The 
 Conservatives are more liberal than the Whigs? 
 Show me a better reformer, for instance, than 
 Mr. Disraeli." 
 
 Mr. Haughton, as a semi or a demisemi 
 American, assumed to speak with authority on 
 the Alabama Question, and held, though he 
 found but few to agree with him, that Great 
 Britain committed a mistake in condescendinof to 
 negotiate at all upon the question, and that Earl 
 Russell was right in asserting that the govern- 
 ment of the day had done all that it could 
 legally do in the matter of the escape of the 
 Alabama, and that it was the business of the
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 89 
 
 United States to catch that formidable cruiser, 
 and hang or shoot every man on board, if they 
 could do so; and by no means the business of 
 Great Britain to pay a single farthing for any 
 damao-e she mio;ht have inflicted. But Mr. 
 Haughton was born in Virginia, and was a 
 Southern man in all respects, except in the belief 
 in the goodness and necessity of negro slavery. 
 " Slavery," he said, turning first to Mr. Rig- 
 glesby and then to Lord O'Monaghan, " was a 
 very bad thing for the white men of the South- 
 ern States, and I am very glad it has been 
 abolished. I don't admire the way in which it 
 was done, but that is nothing. It 's gone, never 
 to be revived, and I rejoice at the fact; though 
 as regards the poor niggers, I think it a great 
 misfortune for them that one of them was ever 
 landed in America. But Great Britain intro- 
 duced them, and her Liberal party during the 
 Civil War ou2;ht to have been more tolerant of 
 the South for not exactly knowing what to do 
 with them."
 
 90 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 "Why," asked Rigglesby, "do the Irish m 
 America disHke the negroes so much, and why 
 do the negroes dislike them ! " 
 
 " Somebody once said, I think he was a Boston 
 Yankee," replied Mr. Haughton, "that he wished 
 every Irishman in America would kill a nigger 
 and be huno- for it." 
 
 " By my faith, now, and that's not original," 
 said Lord O'Monaghan. " Didn't Anarchasis 
 Clootz, or Robespierre, or Camille Desmoulins, 
 or some other fellow of the kind, during the 
 first French Revolution, say that he wished 
 every priest in France would kill a la^vyer and 
 be guillotined for it ? " 
 
 " Perhaps ! I don't know, but it's very likely," 
 replied Mr. Haughton, " and its hard to light 
 upon a truly original sajdng. But I was going 
 to explain that this mutual dislike is all a ques- 
 tion of wages. The real American prefers head 
 work to hand work, unless it be the work of the 
 farm, and as the Irish and the negroes do all the 
 coarse work and the domestic service between
 
 luck; and what came of it. 91 
 
 them, they are competitors in the labour-market, 
 and the Irish think that the negroes work for 
 less money than they do; hence the hostility. 
 I think the Irish are wrong. A nigger's work is 
 the worst of work, dear at any price; and I 
 believe all the work of the Southern States will 
 at no distant day be accomplished by white men. 
 
 " Then what's to become of the negroes ? " 
 said Rigglesby. 
 
 "I can't tell. If I had my will I would 
 settle them all in the Sea Islands that fringe 
 the Atlantic coast from Charleston to the 
 mouths of the Mississippi, and give them the 
 land to cultivate and grow Sea Island cotton. 
 No Avhite man can live in those islands, except 
 in the winter months. The negroes can live 
 there all the year round withuut fear of yellow 
 or any other fever, and fatten in the deadly 
 climate. In that region, left to themselves, they 
 might become a happy and a prosperous commu- 
 nity, untroubled by white superiority or Irish 
 jealousy."
 
 92 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 "Oh, bother the nigger!" said the Colonel, 
 " try this Romanee Conti, it is the best in the 
 Whiggamore cellars — superb! And decanted 
 superbly, too." 
 
 " Ah," said Lord O'Monaghan, holding his 
 full glass to the light, " what a pity it is that a 
 fellow cannot drink such wine every day, even 
 if he could afford it ! Which I grieve to say I 
 can't. And it is not only dear, but it is gouty. 
 Claret after all is the only safe drink, except 
 whisky! though I prefer the claret. Once in 
 a way, however. Burgundy is a divine drink." 
 
 " I think Bass's bitter beer is just as good," 
 said Mr. Haughton, " at least for a regular 
 drink, and that it has done more for the cause of 
 temperance than all the Maine Liquor Laws that 
 were ever tried, and all the teetotal speeches 
 that were ever delivered." 
 
 Before the company separated, Mr. Haughton 
 ao^reed to become a candidate for the Whisfoca- 
 more, and Mr. Rigglesby undertook to find him 
 a safe and influential proposer and seconder.
 
 luck; and what came of it. 93 
 
 And when the party broke up, Mr. Haughton 
 was of opinion that he rather liked Lord O'Mona- 
 ghan, and Lord O'Monaghan was of opinion that 
 his former rival was a capital good fellow. 
 
 If Mr. Haughton had not been a Member of 
 Parliament he might have had to wait for a 
 couple of years before obtaining a chance of 
 being blackballed or "pilled" at the Whigga- 
 more; but on the other side, if he had not been 
 a Member of Parliament, he Avould have never 
 thought of entering that establishment. But 
 things being as they were, his position as a legis- 
 lator gave him precedence over other candidates 
 and in a fortnight after he had been proposed 
 and seconded, he was duly elected, though 
 more than a dozen black balls were counted 
 against him, why or wherefore he knew not. 
 By this time the festival of St. Grouse was close 
 at hand, everybody who loved shooting was 
 preparing fo^' the moors, Parliament was but 
 scantily attended, and Mr. Haughton, not being 
 required by any pressure of public business to
 
 94 luck; and what came op it. 
 
 vote with his i)arty, returned to Mill Haughton 
 and prepared to take his wife and daughters to 
 the West Highlands of Scotland according to 
 promise.
 
 95 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 The member for Swinston did not think it his 
 duty, merely because he had emancipated him- 
 self for a while from the cares of business, and 
 was bent upon enjoying the pleasures of rest, 
 to dress himself in Highland costume, or in 
 knickerbockers with red or green stockings to 
 show oiF his legs, and otherwise to make himself 
 conspicuous and ridiculous, as is too much the 
 custom of the English tourist. Neither did his 
 wife consider it necessary, merely because she 
 was going to Scotland, to take a collection of 
 Alpenstocks along with her, as if she were
 
 96 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 bound on an expedition to the top of Mont 
 Blanc. The younger Miss Haughton thought 
 differently, and, as she herself expressed it, had 
 a " swell " chignon, a " swell" hat, and sundry 
 " swell " accessories of costume, including a 
 whole quiver of Alpenstocks, to prove to the 
 profane vulgar that she was going to enjoy her- 
 self, away from home. The elder Miss Haugh- 
 ton had diffigrent ideas, and attired herself like 
 a lady, as she was, without contravension of the 
 fashion, or any semi-insane attempt to go be- 
 yond it. 
 
 To please his wife, who was a thorough Scots- 
 woman in heart and sentiment, and who thought 
 the capital city of her native land the finest city 
 on the face of the globe, Mr. Haughton took 
 Edinburgh on his way, and greatly pleased he 
 was with it ; but as this is a narrative of incident 
 and character, and not a panorama of scenery, 
 its course need not be interrupted by an}' descrip- 
 tion of the city, or what the family saw there, 
 and how they liked it. But on the second day
 
 luck; and what came of it. 97 
 
 after their arrival, while they were still engaged 
 in visiting whatever was most remarkable for its 
 antiquity or its historical associations in a city 
 in which almost every square yard has its legend, 
 its history, its poetry, and its romance. Mr. 
 Haughton was surprised to find at MacGregor's 
 Eoyal Hotel, where he had put up, his parlia- 
 mentary acquaintance Mr. Rigglesby. Mr. 
 Haughton's first impression was that the meeting 
 was not by any means so accidental as it ap- 
 peared, and, in fact, that Mr. Rigglesby had pur- 
 posely placed himself in his way. But he 
 banished the idea as soon as formed, and never 
 afterwards recurred to it. 
 
 " Are you off to the moors, Rigglesby ? " he 
 inquired. 
 
 " Yes; but not to shoot, I hate fire-arms. I 
 am too contemplative a man, I suppose, to love 
 the noise of guns, and the yelping of dogs, and 
 prefer the quiet amusement of the lake and the 
 river. I am going to waltonize, that is to fish 
 in the Spey." 
 
 I. 7
 
 98 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. 
 
 " Have you rented the river, or any part of 
 it?" 
 
 " Not so foolish ! Young Topheavy, the mem- 
 ber for Middlecombe, who has plenty of money, 
 and overflows with good nature, has given me an 
 invite to his fishing and shooting, and I have 
 accepted both, intending to devote myself to the 
 first only. And you, whither are you bound? " 
 
 " To the West Highlands, but neither to fish 
 nor to shoot, but to walk, to row, to climb the 
 hills, to inhale the fresh breezes of the sea and 
 the mountains, and to do nothmg but get up a 
 good appetite for the day, and a good sleep for 
 the night. I never kill anything when I go out 
 for a holiday, except time ; indeed, I don't think 
 I kill even that, for I enjoy time, and respect it." 
 
 "Happy man!" replied Rigglesby. "When 
 1 am tired of salmo ferox and his cousin the 
 trout, or if I am not successful in deceiving 
 any fish with my treacherous flies, I shall, per- 
 haps, find you out. The West Highlands, you 
 said? Oban, I suppose ? "
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OJb' IT. 99 
 
 *' Oban, yes ; my headquarters for a month, 
 provided it does not rain all the time, in which 
 unhappy case I shall travel to the eastern coast, 
 and try Aberdeenshire." 
 
 " Your late opponent. Lord O'Monaghan, is 
 going to Topheavy's shooting box. His Lordship 
 likes free quarters, and sport, and good whisky, 
 galore, as he says, all of which Topheavy vnW 
 hospitably provide for him. Are the ladies with 
 you?" 
 
 "Yes; they are shopping in Princes Street, 
 buying all sorts of useless tartans in wool, in 
 silk, and in velvet; and all sorts of useless 
 broaches, work-boxes, and knick-knackeries. My 
 wife declares that Princes Street is the finest 
 street in the world, whether for shopping pui'- 
 poses or the enjoyment of the picturesque. 
 
 "She is quite right," said Rigglesby. "Edm- 
 burgh is a beautiful city. Everybody admires 
 it. But I not only admire Edinburgh and Scot- 
 land, I love the people. Were I not an Irish- 
 man I think I should like to be a Scotsman."^ 
 
 7 *
 
 100 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 " There are two sorts of Scots," replied 
 Haughton, " the Saxon Scots and the Celtic 
 Scots; which of these do you mean?" 
 
 " Oh, the Celtic Scots, of course ; I don't care 
 for the Sassanach, whether Scotch or English, 
 though the two sorts of Scots have got so mixed 
 and mingled, and jumbled up together in the 
 course of centuries, that a genuine Celt is hard 
 to find. But I am off, and " (looking at his 
 watch) "have not five minutes to spare. So good- 
 bye for the present ; and if we meet at Oban, as 
 I hope, I will off'er myself as your comrade for 
 a tramp to the top of Ben More, or Ben Crua- 
 chan, or a visit to the old Serpent of Lochnell. 
 Farewell, in the meantime." 
 
 So the two members of parliament parted ; and 
 the next morning Mr. Haughton and the three 
 ladies took the early train for Greenock, avoiding 
 Glasgow, and between nine and ten o'clock in 
 the forenoon found themselves snugly on board 
 the steamship lona, amid a motle}'' multitude of 
 people bound for Ardrishahg, and the Western
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. 101 
 
 Coast. The clay was lovely, the sky was with- 
 out a cloud, and the magnificent mountain 
 scenery of the Estuary of the Clyde, stood out 
 in clear sharp tracery against the horizon. " A 
 glorious sea it was, a glorious shore," and to 
 Euphemia and Esther, who had never before 
 visited their mother's native land, upon the un- 
 paralled beauty of which the good lady was 
 never tired of expatiating, it seemed to more 
 than justify all the praises she had heaped u^^on 
 it. Mr. Haughton had not been five minutes on 
 board before he saw Lord O'Monaghan, engaged 
 in conversation with an ancient lady, with un- 
 commonly bright eyes and a large nose, who 
 bore upon her countenance the visible traces of 
 a beauty that in her youth must have been 
 remarkable. The eyes of the lord and the 
 commoner met, and the nod of recognition 
 followed. 
 
 "I wonder who the leddy is," said Mrs. 
 Haughton, " that Lord O'Monaghan is talking to, 
 His mother, perhaps."
 
 102 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 "I should say it is more likely to be his grand- 
 mother,"' said Miss Esther, "she looks as if she 
 were close upon a hundred." 
 
 On her part, the old lady was equally in- 
 quisitive, and asked O'Monaghan, as he escorted 
 her down to breakfast, who his acquaintance was. 
 
 " Oh, Mr. Haughton, the new member for 
 Swinston, my opponent, who won the day over 
 me, as you may have heard. But his politics 
 apart he's a right good fellow. The ladies are 
 his wife and two daughters. I think the 
 youngest a very pretty girl, don't you? " 
 
 " I don't know yet, I have not had a good 
 look at her or any of the family. Are they in 
 society?" 
 
 " Not exactly ; but I suppose they will wish 
 to be, the ladies especially." 
 
 " What is Mr, Haughton, a country gentle- 
 man, a lawyer, a brewer, or a banker?" 
 
 " Neither the one nor the other. He is a manu- 
 facturer of agricultural implements. Rich, and 
 ambitious tc make a figure in political life, in
 
 luck; and what came of it. 103 
 
 which design I don't think he will succeed. He 
 is too honest and independent, speaks his mind too 
 freely, and would vote against Gladstone and his 
 party if he thought them in the wrong. But 
 that 's not my way of doing business ! If my 
 party 's in the right, it doesn't particularly want 
 my vote. But if it 's wrong, my vote becomes of 
 double importance." 
 
 " Introduce Mr. Haughton to me, when you 
 have an opportunity." 
 
 Lord O'Monaghan promised, and thought, 
 though he did not say so, that her Ladyship had 
 a very keen eye to business. 
 
 While awaiting the opportunity that will soon 
 present itself for the introduction suggested, it 
 may as well be explained what Lord O'Mona- 
 ghan meant by his unuttered thought, and who 
 her Ladyship was, and how she had a keen eye 
 to "business." Lady Augusta Pippins was the 
 daughter of an Earl, who in her early youth, 
 when very handsome and impulsive, had com- 
 mitted the indiscretion of allying herself in
 
 104 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 marriage, all for love, and not at all for money, 
 to a very goocl-lookinjo;, and very clever youiig 
 barrister, with a rising practice. Their marriage 
 was a happy one, but the husband died in early 
 middle life, leaving no family, and only a very 
 moderate, indeed, a very small independency, to 
 his widow. So the Earl, her father, who was 
 very fashionable, but not very rich, had to sup- 
 plement her income by a small additional annuity ; 
 and the two combined enabled Lady Augusta, 
 who was a great favourite in every society in 
 which she moved, to hold her head up among 
 her equals in rank, though her superiors in for- 
 tune, and to give occasional cozy little parties, 
 to which every one invited thought it a great 
 treat to be enabled to attend. At the close of 
 the London season. Lady Augusta set forth on 
 her autumnal visits to great houses, where she 
 was always a welcome guest, and thus managed 
 to spend economically and comfortably, and 
 sometimes splendidly, four months of the year 
 with no other expenses but her railway fares,
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. 105 
 
 tiiicl "tips" to the servants. She had led this 
 kind of life for thirty years, and had never again 
 accepted an offer of marriage, though five or six 
 had been made to her. She was now about 
 seventy, had a ready tongue, a well-furnished 
 mind, a fluent wit flavoured with a piquant and 
 not at all disagreeable cynicism, and could not 
 only hold her own in an argument or a wit com- 
 bat with a man or a woman, but could perplex 
 a Sergeant Doubleside, or an Attorney General, if 
 she were minded to sharpen her wits against his, 
 in the attrition of either logic or persiflage. 
 She was fond of the society of young people, 
 and was the depositary of more love secrets and 
 other small matters than most women of her time. 
 Among others of Lady Augusta's characteristics, 
 she was noted for plain speaking, and called 
 things by their right names whenever she was 
 in the humour to do so, which was pretty nearly 
 always. Add to this, as Lord O'Monaghan had 
 remarked to himself, that she had a keen eye 
 for business, and you have the pliysical and
 
 106 luck; and what came op it. 
 
 moral portraiture of Lady Augusta Pippins, one 
 of the prime favourites of the town, or that por- 
 tion of the town (and in autumn, of the coun- 
 try) which calls itself " Society," which looks 
 upon all the rest of the world as the profane 
 vulgar. But what, it may be asked, was the 
 kind of business for which her Ladyship had an 
 eye so keen ? She will herself explain it before 
 she leaves the lona, in a confidential tete a tete 
 with her new friend Mrs. Haughton, to whom 
 and to whose husband and daughters she had 
 been formally introduced by Lord O'Monaghan. 
 
 " Very glad, I am sure, to make your acquaint- 
 ance, Mr. Haughton, though I am told you are a 
 wicked Liberal, and I am a righteous Tory, and 
 still more glad to make the acquaintance of your 
 wife and your charming daughters. Of course 
 you will, that is to say, you must pass the next 
 season in town?" 
 
 " / must," replied Mr. Haughton, " but no 
 similar necessity weighs upon the ladies." 
 
 " Oh, but it does though, papa," said Miss
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 107 
 
 Esther. "If you were to go to town to attend 
 to your parliamentary duties, and not take us 
 along with you, it would be positively dreadful." 
 
 " So it would, my dear," said her Ladyship, 
 and not only dreadful, but unkind." 
 
 " Awfully unkind," said Esther. 
 
 " There could be nothing very awful or very 
 dreadful about it," said Mrs. Haughton, "but 
 as your father has made up his mind to give us a 
 season in London, there 's no use in fashin' our- 
 selves about what would ha2:>pen if he had de- 
 cided otherwise ! " 
 
 "Of course," said Lady Augusta, "you and 
 your daughters will pay your respects to Her 
 Majesty at her first drawing room?" 
 
 " Weel," said Mrs. Haughton, relapsing into 
 broad Scotch, which she always did when she 
 was more than usually interested. " I wadna 
 mind, but wha should I get to present us ? " 
 
 " Get 7ne ! " said Lady Augusta, " I will do 
 it for you with the greatest pleasure." 
 
 " Oh you dear, delightful, (old lady, Mi«s
 
 108 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 Esther was going to say, but she stopped short 
 at the objectionable words, and substituted) 
 darhng! That will be nice." 
 
 " Awfully nice ! I suppose you mean," said 
 her father. 
 
 " Well, yes ! awfully nice and immensely 
 jolly, and all that sort of thing. What 's the use 
 of mincing words? I mean all that I say, and a 
 great deal more. Won't it be splendid fun ? " 
 asked Esther, turning to her sister. 
 
 Miss Euphemia was not a young lady of the 
 period, and had as much objection to slang as her 
 father, and replied that she saw no particular 
 "fun " in it, but that it would be very pleasant 
 to be presented to the Queen and the Princess 
 of Wales, and to go to the opera and the 
 theatres, and to balls, by way of a change from 
 the stagnation of Swinston. But for my part," 
 she added, " I am not quite sure that I do not 
 like this Scottish trip amid this glorious scenery 
 better than T shall like all the gaieties of 
 London."
 
 luck; and what came of it. 109 
 
 " Oh, but you 're so immensely slow," said her 
 sister ; and turning to Lord O'Monaghan, she 
 inquired suddenly, " Do you like slow people? " 
 
 "Well," said his Lordship, "not too slow, 
 but not too fast. ' In moderation placing all 
 my glory, the Tories call me Whig, and Whigs 
 a Tory ! ' The juste milwu for me. I like 
 gravity ; I like hght-heartedness. In short, I like a 
 pretty girl, in any mood, except in an ill- temper, 
 and I'm not sure if I don't like her even then." 
 
 Somewdiat later in the day, and before dis- 
 embarking to change steamers at the Crinan 
 Canal, Lady Augusta had a private conversation 
 with Mrs. Haughton, which, in the mind of the 
 latter, threw an unexpected light upon the 
 world and the world's ways, and upon the com- 
 mercial characteristics of an eminently commer- 
 cial people. Lady Augusta very soon gave her 
 to understand that the services which she might 
 render to her and her family during the next 
 London season were not to be gratuitous; that 
 she would give two or three parties to the best
 
 110 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 people, the elite of the elite^ to introduce them ; 
 that such parties would cost money, and that 
 whatever she did, she did well, and expected to 
 be well paid for it. Mrs. Haughton looked sur- 
 prised, and was about to speak when Lady 
 Augusta went on to say : 
 
 *' You are rich, Mrs. Haughton, and I am 
 poor. And, though I might do much pour 
 Vamour de vos beaux yeux^ if our cases were 
 reversed, you see that I can't afford to be 
 stupidly generous and absurdly sentimental. 
 But you need not be surprised at me, if I sell 
 what I have to sell. Your husband sells what 
 he has to sell, his mill power, his skill in his 
 business, and his agricultural implements. I 
 sell the only thing I have to sell, my influence 
 and connection in society. I would not sell that 
 to everybody, however well they might pay me ; 
 for some might do me discredit after I had 
 received their money. I only sell to those who 
 are in a position to reflect honour on my intro- 
 duction."
 
 luck; and what came of it. Ill 
 
 " But," said Mrs. Haughton apologetically, 
 and half ashamed of her own bluntness, " Is not 
 this something new in the great world?" 
 
 " Lord love you ! " said Lady Augusta ; " how 
 simple and how good you are. The great world 
 is the greatest trader going. The great world 
 never gives anything away that it can turn a 
 honest penny by. You great manufacturers, and 
 cotton-spinners, and merchants, and contractors, 
 and railway directors, and shipowners, and coal- 
 owners, have become so disgracefully rich that 
 you throw the wealth of the aristocracy into the 
 shade — I mean the tag rag and bobtail of the 
 aristocracy, and all such as have not the fortunes 
 of a Russell, a Gower, or a Grosvenor. Many a 
 cheesemonger now-a-days is richer than an Earl, 
 and my butcher has an income five or six times 
 greater than mine, ditto my fishmonger ! " 
 " But," said Mrs. Haughton again — 
 " But me no buts," said Lady Augusta. 
 " We must take the world as we find it, and 
 make the best of it we can. Time was, when I
 
 112 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 was young, that a person of my father's rank and 
 position, gave away his pheasants and partridges 
 to his friends. Nobody gives away his game now- 
 a-days ; and if Lord Barrenmore permits a friend 
 to enjoy a day's shooting on his estates, the friend 
 is not allowed to bag his grouse, pheasants, or 
 partridges for his own consumption. The friend 
 only acts the part of the journeyman poulterer, 
 and the game goes to the London markets, 
 and forms a necessary part of his Lordship's 
 income." 
 
 " I think it's mean" said Mrs. Haughton. 
 " Mean! it 's not so mean as insolvency, is it? 
 But you are young in the ways of the world ! you 
 know nothing down at Swinston. In London 
 everything is for sale. I knew a man who 
 made a thousand pouuds because Mr. Gladstone 
 shook hands with him in Pall Mall, and stopped 
 for three minutes talking to him. That little feat 
 procured him a seat at the Board of a Limited 
 Liability Company, which he had long striven 
 to attain, and ineffectually, until chance threw
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 113 
 
 this oppoi'tunity in his ^vay, when, like a wise 
 man, he made the best of it." 
 
 "Weel," said Mrs. Haiighton, relapsing into 
 Scotch, " it does not seem to me to be owre 
 cannie or respectable." 
 
 " Oh, it's quite right," rejoined her Lady- 
 ship, " though I must say if I had been Mr. 
 Gladstone, and knew of the profit made out of 
 me, I should have expected my percentage." 
 
 Mrs Haughton laughed. "I didn't know 
 that the world was so very worldly." 
 
 " Oh, you don't knoAV half or a quarter of 
 what 3^ou will know after you have been a 
 season in London. How do you think that 
 our friend Lord O'Monaghan lives?" 
 
 " Upon the rental of his estates, no doubt." 
 
 "Upon the rental of his wits! He's a guinea- 
 pig!" 
 
 " Lord save us I and what may that be ? " 
 inquired Mrs. Haughton. 
 
 "Being a Lord, though only an Irish one, 
 he has discovered that his title has a certain 
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 114 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 commercial value. He is a director, qualified 
 by the promoters, of half-a-dozen Limited Lia- 
 bility Companies for bottling sunshme, for 
 converting old shoes into sugar, for the com- 
 pression of sawdust into a substance harder 
 and more beautiful than granite, and for work- 
 ing the long abandoned gold mines of Abderah- 
 man in Spain, and others. For an hour's 
 attendance or less at the Board Meetings 
 of these various comj)anies he receives his 
 guinea fee, as if he were a doctor visiting a 
 patient." 
 
 " Weel," said Mrs. Haughton, " I suppose my 
 youngest daughter would call me ' awfully 
 green ' for not knowing these matters ; but green 
 or no green, I have been instructed by your 
 Leddyship. But here we are at Ardrishaig. 
 Are you going any further ? " 
 
 " I am going to Skye," said Lady Augusta, 
 and shall be your fellow-passenger as far as 
 Oban." 
 
 '^ Oh then, we can have a little further crack
 
 luck; and what came of it. 115 
 
 on these matters," said Mrs. Haughton, who had 
 made up her mind to keep on good terms with 
 Lady Augusta, in view of all the contingencies 
 of the London season and the presentations and 
 introductions which she thought might be of 
 advantage to her daughters. 
 
 " Pardon me," inquired Lady Augusta, " but 
 you said craclc. What is crack? " 
 
 "It is for you to pardon me," said Mrs. 
 Haughton, " for talking what my husband some- 
 times calls my ' native Doric' Crack is just a 
 good old Scotch word for talk, gossip, conversa- 
 tion, confabulation, and is always used in a 
 friendly sense." 
 
 " I always like to be learning,'' replied Lady 
 Augusta ; and a new word is sometimes a new 
 pleasure. So I shall remember ' crack.' I was 
 delighted some time as^o with the word skedaddle 
 that came over to us from America during the 
 great Civil war." 
 
 " And that 's a Scotch word too, your Leddy- 
 ship, which I have often heard in Dumfriesshire 
 
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 116 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 m my young days, when I helped the farm-lasses 
 to milk my father's coos." 
 
 "Coos! ah, you mean coios^" said Lady 
 Augusta. And so you have milked the cows, 
 have you? How pastoral, how primitive, how 
 imiocent ! I don't think I should have skill or 
 courage to milk a cow, if anyone gave me a 
 thousand pounds to do it. And did you like 
 the job?" 
 
 " I did na' mind. Everything is right that is 
 necessary." 
 
 " Yes," said Lady Augusta, " that's the true 
 wisdom. The great Duke of Wellington told 
 me that he had often cleaned his own boots in 
 his youthful time." 
 
 " An' what for no? " said Mrs. Haughton, "if 
 he had nobody to do it for him ? " 
 
 The " lona " was by this time moored to the 
 pier at Ardrishaig, and the passengers were 
 swarming out like bees fi'om a hive to take their 
 places on board the small canal steam-tug that 
 seemed hardly capacious enough to contam the
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 117 
 
 multitude, but which managed to comfortably 
 accommodate them all. Leavino- our friends 
 and acquaintances to continue their journey 
 through the lovely scenery amid which for nine 
 miles the Crinan canal has been cut, and pur- 
 posing to rejoin them hereafter at Oban, we turn 
 to the fortunes of some other persons who have 
 already figured in our story.
 
 118 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 It was a beautiful evening in August, a few daj-s 
 after the commencement of the annual slaughtoi- 
 of grouse on the moors, that the Reverend Sir 
 Lancelot Wyld, Bart., who was no sportsman, 
 and could not conveniently get away from home, 
 took a w^alk, and saw a sight that greatly dis- 
 pleased him. He was thinking of his son Lancelot 
 — the darling of his mother's heart, who seemed 
 to love him the more ardently the more obstinately 
 he departed from rightful courses — when he 
 suddenly caught sight of that young gentleman 
 in a rural lane with lofty elms on either side,
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. 119 
 
 engaged in conversation with pretty Patty Tidy, 
 the farrier's daughter. Now the Eeverend 
 Sir Lancelot Wyld, Baronet, had no objection 
 to pretty Patty, loer se, for she was a very good 
 girl — and might even be called beautiful — but he 
 had, as the reader has already been informed, a 
 great objection to any courtship or flirtation 
 between her and his son. As he did not wish to 
 mterrupt their billing and cooing there and then — 
 if they luere billing and cooing — and, as he had 
 no intention of making war upon them collec- 
 tively, he lingered behind until they had passed 
 out of sight, making up his mind in the interval 
 to declare war upon them separately, and conquer 
 them seriatim by forbidding any fui'ther inter- 
 course with the young woman on the part of his 
 son, and by attempting to procure a correspond- 
 ing result by his influence, if he could manage 
 to exert any, over the mind of the young 
 woman's father. His son had no pride : he knew 
 that; but Tidy the farrier had a great deal, 
 and he resolved to work upon it to prevent a
 
 120 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 possible marriage between the young and unsuit- 
 able pair. And he walked slowly home to Lady 
 Wyld, cogitating as he went. 
 
 It had been the wish of Sir Lancelot and his 
 Avife that their son might marry one of his 
 cousins, the daughters of Mr. Haughton, of Mill 
 Haughton; they did not care which. They 
 seemed, however, to be of opinion that union 
 mth Miss Esther would be more suitable than 
 union with ]\liss Euphemia, for the reason 
 that their son was horsy, slangy, fast ; and that 
 Miss Esther would be a more suitable match for 
 so abnormal a person than the graver and gentler 
 sister. But if the young man himself had had 
 anything to say on the subject — which he had 
 not — he would probably have inclined more 
 decidedly to the pensive and sweet Euphemia, 
 because she was so unlike himself, than to the other 
 sister who was too much like him, and mirrored 
 to a mild extent in her own character some of 
 the thino:s that he least admired in his own. 
 But these matters scarcely entered into his mind ;
 
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 and such heart as he had was so fully engrossed 
 by pretty Patty as to leave no room in its small 
 compass for thoughts of any other woman. 
 
 On the evenmg in question when observed by 
 Sir Lancelot there was not much love spoken 
 between the pair. None at all on Patty's side, 
 for she had frankly told him that her father dis- 
 approved of their courtship, that Ms father was 
 of the same mind, and that she did not suffi- 
 ciently care for him (Lancelot) to risk any un- 
 pleasantness or be guilty of any disobedience on 
 his behalf. In short, she thought she wished to 
 break off her intercourse Avith him, and had partly 
 resolved if there were no other means of freeing 
 herself from his further attentions, to leave the 
 village, to seek service in London or elsewhere, 
 as her father might think best. 
 
 " Well, Patty," he said, '• you're the nicest 
 o'irl I ever saw or want to see, and it 's rather 
 hard lines upon a fellow who loves you so much 
 to be turned adrift, as if he were no better than 
 a groom. What have I done to you ? "
 
 122 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 *' You have done nothing but make my hfe 
 miserable ever since I saw you, and got me into 
 trouble with my father, and my mother too, 
 though she is not so very hard as he is. Even 
 my brother Joe says things of you which I don't 
 care to repeat." 
 
 " I'll knock your brother Joe's teeth down 
 his throat, see if I don't, if he dares to say 
 anything about me, good, bad, or indifferent. 
 I don't care to know what he says. Let him 
 keep out of my way, that's all — a poachhig 
 rascal. I could get him three months any 
 day, if I liked. He's a poacher, and I can 
 prove it." 
 
 " Yes, and if you can, or could, though I don't 
 believe it, that's just another reason why you 
 and I should go different ways. A baronet's 
 son is no fit husband for a poacher's sister. 
 The style of life of me and my people is not 
 the style of life of you and your people, and 
 I feel that father is right when he says that 
 birds of a feather should flock together ; and that
 
 luck; and what came op it. 123 
 
 your feathers are not our feathers. ' Sparrows 
 and rats are no fit mates,' he says." 
 
 " What does the stupid old bloke mean by 
 ' sparrows and rats ? ' Is he a rat, I wonder, 
 or [you ? or does he mean me ? Sparrow be 
 hanged. I'm neither a rat nor a sparrow, nor 
 you either; you're a dove and an angel." 
 
 " No matter what he means — except that he 
 means that your folly (perhaps my folly) has gone 
 far enough, and that it is time there should be 
 an end of it. I think Sir Lancelot is of the 
 same opinion. There he comes up the lane. I 
 have just caught sight of him. Shall we wait 
 here till he catches up to us, and ask him the 
 question ?" 
 
 " Dang it, no," said Lancelot. " My governor 
 is a harder man than your governor, and I don't 
 want to talk with him on that subject or any other, 
 for he never can talk without preaching to me or 
 at me, both of which operations I detest. But 
 I 'm more than twenty years of age now, and 
 shall be my own master one of these early days.
 
 124 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 Let 's make a bargain, Patty. You don't know 
 your own mind. I know mine. Wait six 
 months for me, and I'll wait six months for you. 
 Honour bright ! And that's a fair offer ! Why 
 should we be bothered with fathers in things that 
 they have nothing to do with, or that they ought 
 not to have ? Give me your hand upon it, Patty, 
 and I won't deceive you — no, not to win the 
 Derby ! " 
 
 " I '11 wait six months," said Patty, " if } ou 
 like. Though not because you like, but because 
 I like. And I won't wait merely because of you; 
 I '11 wait because it pleases me, and because I 'm 
 in no hurry to be married. I 'm only nineteen, 
 and I don't see that there's any occasion to accept 
 the first man that offers ? " 
 
 '* Am / the first ? " said Lancelot. 
 
 " I shan't tell you," said Patty. 
 
 "Patty," said Lancelot, throwing away the 
 end of a cigar that he had been twiddling in his 
 fingers ever since the conversation began, " I 
 believe you do it on purpose to make a fool of a
 
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 fellow ; and you look so pretty when you 're 
 saucy that I feel inclined to kiss you to death. 
 Now, there ! " 
 
 " Xow, tliere ! " she replied, with a look of 
 affected disdain. I 'd much rather you thrashed 
 ine, for then you might be locked up, which 
 might be pleasant to many people besides me." 
 
 " Will you meet me here, to-morrow ? " he 
 asked. 
 
 " Neither here, nor there, nor anywhere else, 
 neither to-morrow nor any other time ! " And 
 so saying, she tripped lightly away, and was safe 
 in her father's parlour before her bewildered 
 lover quite recovered the self-possession which 
 she had overthrown. 
 
 When young Lancelot returned home that 
 evening, very shortly after this unsatisfactory 
 interview with Patty, he found both Sir Lancelot 
 and Lady Wyld in no very amiable mood to- 
 wards him. His mother appeared to have been 
 reading, and as he entered the room, raised her 
 eyes but for a single moment, and then bent
 
 126 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 lliem again on the volume which lay on the 
 table. Sir Lancelot was supping a cup of 
 coffee, which he put clown on the tray as he 
 caught sight of his son, and turned towards him 
 a look that was ominous of what his son irre- 
 verently called, in his own mind, a " preachiiica- 
 tion." 
 
 " Sit down, Lancelot," said the father, "I want 
 to talk to you, though you smell so horribly of 
 bad tobacco, that I must make what I have to 
 say as short as possible. I saw you this evening 
 in the lane talking to Miss Tidy I I suppose I 
 must call her Miss ! I speak to you as a father, 
 and as a minister of the Gospel, and I command 
 you in both characters to cease your intercourse 
 with that young person." 
 
 " And I intreat you as your mother," said Lady 
 Wyld, " to think no more of her. She is not in 
 the station wlierein you should choose a wife ; 
 and I cannot think so ill of you as to imagine 
 you would seek to gain the affections of any 
 young woman without intending to marry her."
 
 luck; and what came of it. 127 
 
 " I ■wouldn't mind marrying her," said Lance- 
 lot, doggedly. " Indeed, I should like to marry 
 her. She 's good enough for me." 
 
 " A great deal too good," said Sir Lancelot. 
 " It seems to me that in the idle life you are 
 leading, you have become absolutely good for 
 nothing. Did I not send you to Cambridge ? 
 and did you not turn out to be the biggest dolt 
 ever seen there? And what is more, did you 
 not incur a heavy amount of debt, for extrava- 
 gant and useless tomfooleries of every kind — a 
 debt. Sir, for which I am threatened with an 
 action?" 
 
 " But which I will pay hereafter," said Lancelot. 
 
 " Out of what funds, Sir, tell me tlmt^^^ replied 
 Sir Lancelot, sharply. " You have no money, 
 unless you make it by gambling — a mode of life, 
 I should reckon, in which you are much more 
 likely to lose than to gain, unless you become a 
 card-sharper and a blackleg." 
 
 Lady Wyld interposed. " No, my dear," she 
 said, " Lancie may be foolish, but he is not
 
 128 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 wicked ; and I must ask you as a favour to 
 myself, not again to employ such very improper 
 words to my child. He has not your wisdom 
 yet, but he may have some day." 
 
 Sir Lancelot thought that his anger might 
 have carried him too far. 
 
 " All I meant to say," he added, " is that the 
 boy ought to choose some course of honourable 
 business, or some profession, and stick to it ; 
 that he ought, in fact, to be more mdependent 
 than to rely entirely upon such allowance as I — 
 or rather you, for it is your money — can make 
 him. I lived upon a hundred a year, and earned 
 it, when I was not three years older than he is. 
 Why can't he try to imitate my example ? And 
 at that age, though as susceptible of beauty as 
 other people, I did not go falling in love "with 
 servant girls, or farriers' daughters, however 
 pretty they might be. The fact is, such silly 
 love is born of idleness and dissipation of mind, 
 and Lancelot is the idlest and most purposeless 
 }oung man I ever heard of."
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 129 
 
 " Nothing would give me greater pleasure," 
 said Lancelot, speaking to his mother, " than to 
 find some profitable work which would put lots 
 of tin in my pocket and make me independent. 
 But what can I do ? I 'm not fitted for the 
 church, or for the law, or for medicine, or for 
 trade, but I think I could become a tolerably 
 good farmer. But then I should want ^a wife, 
 and Patty would just suit me." 
 
 The father frowned. The mother frowned 
 also. 
 
 Lancelot noticed the black looks, and went on 
 as if he had not done so. 
 
 " But perhaps there is the stuff in me for a 
 soldier, when a wife would not be quite so 
 necessary. Buy me a commission, pay my Cam- 
 bridge debts — they are only a few hundreds, 
 after all — and allow me such a sum in addition 
 to my regimental pay as will enable me to live 
 like the eldest son of a Baronet, and I will try to 
 be as good as a bishop." 
 
 " I think," said Lady Wyld, turning to her 
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 130 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 husband, "that I can manage Lancie without 
 gettmg into a temper. Young people are gene- 
 rally foolish; and young people who are noc 
 foolish are apt to turn what they think their 
 wisdom into wickedness. " Lancie ! " she added, 
 looking at her son, " give me your hand, and 
 promise me, not to say another word to Patty 
 Tidy, nor see her, nor write to her, until you 
 and I have had some more serious conversation 
 than we have had this evening." 
 
 " T can't and I won't promise," said Lancelot. 
 " Hang it all ! I could not be so cruel to a girl 
 who has done me no harm, even if I had to break 
 off with her at last. No ; 1 won't do it ; it 's not 
 fiair play." 
 
 "Then Lancie," said his mother, "I won't 
 pi-ess you to-night. Think over it for a day or 
 two, and then decide. So long as you are not 
 fool enough to marry the girl, or knave enough 
 to do her a wrong, you ma}' manage to break off 
 with her as gently as you like." 
 
 " I 've .M notion," replied Lancelot, " that you
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 131 
 
 are both of you giving yourselves a lot of" trouble 
 for nothing, and that she 's a great deal more 
 likely to jilt me than I am to quarrel with her. 
 In short, she as much as told me to-day that she 
 would have nothing further to say to me." 
 
 " Sensible girl ! " said Sir Lancelot. 
 
 "Perhaps she doesn't mean what she says," 
 said Lady Wyld, " and perhaps if she does mean 
 it, she knows somebody that she likes better 
 than you. Anyhow, Ave shan't talk about it any 
 more to-night; and your father and I will think 
 over the matter of the commission. Is it to be 
 horse, foot, or artillery ? ' ' 
 
 " Not artillery, certainly," said Sir Lancelot, 
 "for merit is the thing there, not purchase- 
 money." 
 
 And the reverend gentleman was quite pleased 
 Avith himself for this little bit of ill-nature, and 
 dismissed his son from his presence with a smile, 
 which he had not worn on his face all the 
 evening. 
 
 The young gentleman retired to his bedroom, 
 
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 132 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 resolved to have a smoke to allay the irritation 
 and clear up the perplexities which beset him. 
 And he thought — as far as he could think — very 
 long and earnestly about himself and his future 
 prospects, and tried to make up his mind as to 
 "wliat was ^best to be done. He could not but 
 thuik that Sir Lancelot and his mother were 
 right in the matter of Patty. Not that he 
 thought Patty was beneath him, as they did, but 
 because he had no money and no profession, and 
 could not support her in comfort, if he could 
 support her at all — if his father were so offended 
 as to withdraw or diminish the not very brilliant 
 allowance which he made him. But then, Patty 
 was such a pretty girl ! And it was such a plea- 
 sure to look at her, to talk to her, and even to 
 be snubbed by her. No, he would not give up 
 Patty. He could not, that was plain ; and if 
 she gave him up, why, he 'd emigrate, he 'd go to 
 the diggings, he 'd hang himself No ! he would 
 not do that, because after a spell at the diggings 
 he might recover his peace of mind, and perhaps
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 133 
 
 find another girl, with better taste, or more 
 kind-heartedness than she had. But what was 
 the use of bother? He shouldn't bother. 
 There was no hurry. After all, he was an only 
 son. There was money in the family, and it 
 would come to him in the end, if he lived long 
 enough ; and he had his mother to plead for 
 him, if his father "cut up to too rough," as he 
 expressed it ; and it was of no use for a fellow 
 to make the worst of things. 
 
 And having finished his cigar, he went to 
 bed and slept comfortably till three hours after 
 daylight. From all this it might be inferred 
 that the young man w^as in reality not nearly 
 so much in love as he thought he was, that 
 his philosophy inclined rather to the optimist 
 than the pessimist side of Life's pendulum, 
 and that his mind was far too shallow a water 
 to be vexed by any great storms, either now or 
 hereafter. All of which inferences might or 
 might not be accurate.
 
 134 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. 
 
 CHAPTEH VII. 
 
 The clergyman and the baronet did not assimilate 
 very well together, in one homogeneous w^hole as 
 it were, in the character of the Reverend Sir 
 Lancelot AVyld. When he was a poor curate, he 
 wns meek and lowly, as befitted the position of 
 one who had but a hundred a year, and small 
 chance of ever possessing any more. But when 
 he married a lady of fortune, for the sake of her 
 money, the Baronet developed itself within him 
 at the expense of the parson to such a degree as 
 almost to choke the parson out of existence. As 
 a parson he could not take exception to so virtuous 
 and pretty a girl as Patty Tidy ; but as a Baronet,
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 135 
 
 he looked upon the possibility, the dreadful possi- 
 bility, of her becoming his daughter-in-law with 
 the greatest aversion. As for her father, Tom 
 Tidy, the parson and the Baronet were in 
 thorou.o-h agreement, and looked upon him as a 
 most dangerous and improper person. Tom 
 Tidy spoke disrespectfully of jMoses and Abraham, 
 read Bishop Colenso, and the Enghsh version of 
 Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary, never came 
 near the parish church, and avowed himself to be a 
 Unitarian, which, in the opinion of the Reverend 
 Sir Lancelot Wyld, was as bad as if he had 
 acknowledged himself to be an Atheist. How 
 could he as a clergyman tolerate such a man, 
 unless he Avould listen to argument and show a 
 willingness to be converted to a better faith ? 
 Sir Lancelot had tried Mr. Tidy when he first 
 came to the parish, and had been severely worsted 
 in disputations which he himself had provoked, 
 and had finally given him up with a groan, as 
 a lost sheep, whom it was utterly hopeless to 
 attempt to lead back into the fold.
 
 1^6 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 And then Tom Tidy was a sturdy Democrat, 
 who objected altogether to hereditary titles of 
 nobility, and thought that of all such titles the 
 silliest and most unmeanmg was that of a Baronet, 
 and that it became even worse than unmeaning 
 when bestowed upon or inherited by a minister 
 of the Gospel. A minister of the Gospel was 
 supposed to De a man of peace ; but a Baronet, 
 whose heraldic device was a bloody hand holding 
 a murderous dagger, was a representative of the 
 warlike rather than of the peaceful element of 
 civilisation. So in politics as well as in religion, 
 the Baronet and his stubborn parishioner were 
 wholly at variance, and stood at opposite poles of 
 the social globe with a waste and a wilderness 
 between them. 
 
 " If," said the Baronet to himself, on going 
 downstairs to breakfast on the morning after tlie 
 interview with his son, recorded in the last 
 chapter, " that degenerate boy were to mnrry the 
 daughter of such a man as Tidy, whose son, to 
 make matters worse, bids fair to be hanged, I
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 137 
 
 would not leave him a shilling. But then," and 
 he sighed agam, " that cannot be. I have no 
 money but his mother's money, and she can do 
 as she likes with it. But I '11 go and have a 
 talk with old Tidy, though I 'd as soon face 
 Beelzebub." 
 
 The farrier dhied at one o'clock, and for 
 an hour after the dispatch of this meal usually 
 sat, in fine weather, at the porch of his cottage, 
 smoked a long clay pipe, took a supplementary 
 glass of ale, and read his newspaper. The 
 Baronet knew his habits (everything about 
 evervbodv is known in the villa2:es and small 
 towns of England), and resolved to pay his 
 visit as soon after two o'clock as possible. 
 Mr Tidy's cottage was in harmony with 
 his name; and an air of neatness and com- 
 fort, showing the presence of a good house- 
 wife within, pervaded the whole place. The 
 window-blinds and curtains were as white as 
 snow. Healthy flowers carefully attended to 
 adorned the window-sills ; and the little garden
 
 138 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. 
 
 was in trim and excellent order. The old- 
 fashioned porch, with a fixed seat or wooden 
 bench on each side, seemed expressly constructed 
 for social converse, and was overgrown with care- 
 fully trailed clamberino; roses, intermingled witli 
 nasturtiums, canariensis, and other creeping 
 plants, 
 
 " What a pity," thought the Rector to himself, 
 as he came in sio^ht of the cottae^e and saw 
 its master sitting cosily in the porch, spec- 
 tacles on nose, pipe in mouth, a newspaper in 
 hand, and a jug of ale before him, " that the 
 fellow is an unbeliever and a revolutionist, and 
 so stubborn in his wrong opinions. I most 
 cordially msh that his lot had not been cast in 
 my parish." 
 
 The farrier caught a glimpse of Sir Lancelot 
 as he walked leisurely along, and wondered 
 whether he were to be bored with a visit or 
 dunned for a subscription, or whether the 
 Rector was merely taking an afternoon constitu- 
 tional. His first idea was to go indoors, but he
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 139 
 
 thought this would seem rude, and, after all, 
 what did he care if the reverend gentleman chose 
 to call upon him? If he came begging for money 
 to help to buv a new organ, or a new stained glass 
 window, or for a contribution to support some 
 heathen mission or other, a flat refusal should 
 await him; or if it were to assist in some case of 
 misery in the parish, which had nothing to do 
 with theology, and only with Christian charity, 
 he might, perhaps, if thorouglily satisfied with 
 the genumeness of the purpose, be good for 
 half-a-crown, or even for five shillings. And 
 then he recollected suddenly that he wanted to 
 unburthen his mind to the Rector on a grievance 
 that (as he said) '' riled him," and was rather 
 glad than otherwise that the opportunity should 
 present itself by the Rector's seeking and not 
 by his own. 
 
 ]\Ir. Tidy was physically a man after the 
 type of Chaucer's Miller, " a stout carle for the 
 nonce " in brain as well as in bones, and had a 
 fresh red and white face, bright grey eyes, black
 
 140 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 bushy eye-brows, a high forehead, and a crop of 
 thick, stubbly snow-white hair. He wore 
 whiskers, but no beard. There was great deter- 
 mination about the mouth, and over the whole 
 face there was a kind of semi-defiant expression; 
 such as might have befitted the Miller of the Dee, 
 who cared for nothing and nobody except his 
 mill and his independence. 
 
 The Rector came up straight to the garden- 
 gate, undid the latch, and walked in, touching 
 his hat as his eye first met that of his 
 parishioner. 
 
 " Good morning, Mr. Tidy," he said, " I 've 
 come to have a chat with you for ten minutes, if 
 you 're not too busy and you don't object." 
 
 " Oh no," said Tidy, " I don't object, and T 'm 
 not busy, and shall not be for half an hour. Will 
 you walk in? " 
 
 " I think I will," said Sir Lancelot. 
 
 There was nobody in the snug little parlour^ 
 Mrs. Tidy and Patty having both caught sight of 
 the Rector as he undid the latch of the gate, and
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 141 
 
 retired to their household duties. The Rector 
 noticed as he entered that there was a book- 
 case in the room that might contain about a 
 hundred and fifty volumes, and that there was 
 upon the table, besides sundry newspapers, a 
 popular treatise on the wonders of astronomy, 
 and a copy of Combe's " Constitution of Man." 
 
 " I am glad you are come," said the farrier, 
 motionino' Sir Lancelot to a seat and takino- one 
 himself, " for I 've long wanted to tell you a bit 
 of my mind, and I shall, with your leave, tell it 
 you now." 
 
 '" Mr. Tidy," said the Baronet, somewhat 
 alarmed, " I hope you are not gomg to broach 
 any theoloo;ical topics with me, because it 's 
 utterly impossible that I can ever persuade you 
 to see things as I do, and induce you to submit 
 your poor, paltry human reason, of which you 
 are so vain, to the guidance of the faith that 
 transcends reason." 
 
 " I don't despise reason as you do. As far as 
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 142 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. 
 
 account for everything. But I don't want to 
 argue about theology. 1 want to talk with you 
 about the poor rate. There 's no theology in 
 that as I know of." 
 
 " But I don't make the rate," said the Rector 
 apologetically, "and have nothing to do with it." 
 
 " But you have to do with it. And Lady 
 Wyld has to do with it, and the two Miss Molly- 
 grubs and the Dorcas Society have to do with it. 
 Why, 1 ask you as a reasonable man, should 
 these ladies, for want of somebody in the parish 
 to preach at (why ladies should want to preach 
 at all, I don't know. There 's a deal too much 
 preaching in the world, and too little real religion, 
 that 's my notion) — why these ladies, as I was 
 going to say, should import a family of paupers 
 from America into this parish, for no other 
 reason than to coddle them, and cram them with 
 tracts, and rum, and flannel, and cheap coals — all 
 seasoned with theology, I cannot imagine." 
 
 "I don't quite understand you," said Sir 
 Lancelot.
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 148 
 
 " I '11 make it clear," said Tidy. " You know 
 Buggins, and Mrs. Buggins, and the seven young 
 Bugginses, who are, each and all of them, a 
 burthen on this parish, don't you? " 
 
 "Well, I know Buggins and his family, of 
 course; a very unfortunate man, a very good 
 man, unable to earn his bread from disease and 
 weakness, far gone in consumption, and who 
 cannot with his family be allowed to starve in 
 this Christian land." 
 
 "But he was out of this Christian land with 
 his family, three or four thousand miles away 
 in America — where his numerous family might 
 have been useful to him after a time, for 
 they want more people there, and here we don't 
 — if the pious ladies of this parish had not im- 
 ported him." 
 
 " Imported him ! " 
 
 " Yes, imported him! and imposed upon me 
 and the other rate-payers of the parish the duty, 
 no, not the duty, but the disagreeable obligation, 
 of supporting him. Why didn't they let him
 
 144 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 stay in America ? He would have been better 
 off there than here." 
 
 '* Really, Mr. Tidy, you are too uncharit- 
 able." 
 
 " On the contrary, it is the preaching ladies, 
 or as some call them, the ' goody ' ladies, who are 
 uncharitable, in providing this man and his family 
 with the means of coming over here to oppress 
 the rate-payers. Buggins is an impostor. He 
 laughs at the goody ladies when he has suffered 
 the infliction of their sermons, as soon as their 
 backs are turned. He drives a profitable trade, 
 does Buggins, and takes care to make the most 
 of his cough. He is consumptive, that I admit. 
 The parish doctor orders him a bottle of rum 
 every week, and he sends his wife for it as regu- 
 larly as clockwork every Saturday. Then he 
 has an outdoor allowance of food and money and 
 coals, and keeps a lodger ; and his wife, a great, 
 strong, strapping woman, who could work if she 
 liked, is scarcely ever in a position to go out 
 charing or washing, because she is nearly always
 
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 in what is called 'an interesting situation,' or 
 engaged in suckling a fresh young pauper for 
 me and other people to keep. I think — I do not 
 know what you think — that if Buggins and his 
 wife are strong enough to increase the population 
 of this parish by a boy or a girl per annum, 
 Buo^o^ins and his wife ouo-ht to be strono; enouo-h 
 to earn their own bread, and ashamed of them- 
 selves for being paupers. If not, it's my belief 
 that the whole family should be taken into the 
 workhouse, and Buggins and his wife separated, 
 until they choose to relieve the rate-payers from 
 the necessity of supporting them." 
 
 The farrier seldom made so long a speech as 
 this; but the subject excited him, and he would 
 have expatiated still further upon it, if the 
 Rector had not endeavoured to cut the matter 
 short. 
 
 " Mr. Tidy," said he, " whatever I may 
 
 think, I can tell you that no possible good can 
 
 come of discusshig the subject with me. ^Vhy 
 
 do you not discuss it publicly when the time 
 
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 146 LUCK ; A.ND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 comes for imposing the next rate ? I quite agree 
 with you on the immoraUty of such pauperism 
 as that of Buggins ; and I think that he might 
 have been prudently left on the other side of the 
 A tlantic. But he is here, you see ; and I don't 
 understand how we are to get rid of him." 
 
 " Stop his rum," replied Tidy, " or send 
 him to the infirmary away from Mrs. Bug- 
 gms. 
 
 " I can't argue the matter any further, Mr. 
 Tidy ; it is of no use at least at present. Every 
 system of poor law is liable to abuse, and Bug- 
 gins' case is possibly an abuse ; but, even if it 
 be, I can't remedy it. You have quite as much 
 power as I have ; and what power you have, I 
 advise you to exercise it." 
 
 " Which I certainly shall," said Tidy. " And 
 now, excuse me, Sir Lancelot, if I ask you what 
 has procured me the honour of this visit, and 
 also to excuse me for having pushed forward my 
 business first." 
 
 " I will come to the point at once," replied
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. 147 
 
 Sir Lancelot. "The matter refers to my son 
 and your daughter, and to the necessity that 
 weighs upon both of them, that no more nonsense 
 should be allowed between them." 
 
 " I am entirely of your opinion," said the 
 farrier, " the sooner they become strangers 
 the better. My daughter is no fit match for 
 your son." 
 
 *' Thank you, Mr. Tidy, thank you, heartily." 
 
 " But not in the sense you give to my words," 
 added Tidy. " My daughter is far above your 
 son in everything. Your son is not worthy to 
 clean her boots." 
 
 " Mr. Tidy, Mr. Tidy ! you are going a little 
 too far," said the Baronet, mildly. " I have 
 not a word to say against your daughter, 
 but " 
 
 " Leave out your buts," said Tidy, an- 
 grily. " If anybody dares to say a word 
 against Martha Tidy, there '11 be— never mind 
 what there'll be— but I '11— I tell you— it'll 
 
 be unpleasant." 
 
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 148 LUOK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 " I say nothing, and never intended to say 
 anything, against her," said Sir Lancelot. " She 
 is a very comely, and, I beheve, a very good girl. 
 But my son is not a fit match for her." 
 
 " Don't I know it, and haven't I said it?" re- 
 plied Tidy. " If there was not another husband 
 to be had in the world, and my daughter had set 
 her mind upon him, she should not marry him 
 with my consent, nor any such worthless, idle, 
 gambling, betting " 
 
 "Hush, hush! Mr. Tidy," said the Baronet; 
 " you wound my feelings as a father. I certainly 
 have not come to wound yours. All I wanted 
 to know is whether your daughter has your 
 sanction for keeping company with my son." 
 
 " Certainly not. I have told you so a score 
 of times. What more do you want? " 
 
 " I want no more, Mr. Tidy ; I am quite 
 satisfied. That is to say, with the tact, and not 
 with your reasons for it. But let all tliis pass. 
 My son is not fit to marry anyone. He has his 
 way to make in the world. He has a profession
 
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 to choose ; and if he thinks of marriage ten 
 years hence, it will be quite early enough." 
 
 ** Send him to America or Australia," said 
 Tidy; " there 's room for him there. He would 
 do better than Buggins, provided he would 
 apply himself to anything useful when he got 
 there." 
 
 The Baronet was not at all pleased that Mr. 
 Tidy should presume to give him this, or any 
 other advice, but he concealed his annoyance as 
 well as he was able, in consideration of the com- 
 fort he derived from kno\ving that Patty's father 
 was so thoroughly earnest in his disapproval of 
 and opposition to the courtship that had too long 
 continued. The interview, though painful to Sir 
 Lancelot, had on the whole been satisfactory, 
 and he took leave of Tidy with a kinder feelmg 
 than he had ever yet experienced towards one 
 against whose religious and political opinions 
 entertained the utmost repugnance. 
 
 The Clergyman rose to depart. 
 
 " Pardon me, Sir Lancelot, if you think I have
 
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 shown any undue heat in the matter of Buggins. 
 I have as kind a heart for the poor as any man, 
 but I hate impostors. And if the widow 
 Topham, who is near upon ninety, wants any 
 extra comforts for Christmas time, Tom Tidy 
 has half-a-sovereign to spare for her." 
 
 The clergyman held out his hand to the 
 farrier, who shook it to the Clergyman's satis- 
 faction ; but the Baronet, a moment after- 
 wards, thought he had perhaps been a little 
 too hasty in offering this act of courtesy. 
 Which feeling gained the mastery, it is hard 
 to say ; but the Baronet, as he walked from the 
 farrier's porch and reached the outer gate of 
 the garden, rubbed his right hand upon the coat- 
 sleeve of his left arm — no doubt instinctively 
 and unconsciously. 
 
 The Clergyman after awhile came to the 
 rescue, and said to the Baronet, with the still 
 small voice, " I am not quite so proud as that. 
 I really did not mean it."
 
 luck; and what came of it. 151 
 
 CHAPTER YIII. 
 
 Lady Augusta Pippins, after having concluded 
 a treaty, or an entente cordiale, with Mrs. 
 Haughton for the London season of 1870 — a 
 treaty signifying fashionable service to be ren- 
 dered for an equivalent — has gone off, highly 
 satisfied with her dear friend the new member's 
 wife, to Glenaladale, somewhere near the Ultima 
 Thule of the British Isles, on a visit to the Earl 
 and Countess of that name, where she is to 
 remain, and where letters will find her, for a 
 couple of months. 
 
 Mr. Haughton, glad to be rid of the mill and 
 the factory for a time, is still in the West High-
 
 152 luck; and what came ov it. 
 
 lands, climbing the hills, taking long walking 
 exercises, and amusing himself in the delicious 
 atmosphere of the "far niente." 
 
 Mrs. Haughton and her daughter Effie are 
 rowing in the Bay of Oban, pretending to 
 fish, but not greatly caring for fish, or any- 
 thing else. Miss Ettie is flirting more or less 
 severely with Lord. O'Monoghan, who has left 
 his friend Topheavy's hunting-box in Inver- 
 nesshire, and established himself, for a time, 
 whether it will be long or short he does not 
 know, in the same little town that contains that 
 provoking Miss Ettie and Miss Ettie's father, 
 Mr. Rigglesby, M.P., has written to say that 
 he wall be in Oban in a few days; and Mr. 
 Haughton, M.P., expects him — he neither knows 
 nor cares to question why. 
 
 Meanwhile events are taking place in Swin- 
 ston and the neighbourhood of Mill Haughton 
 which would interest Mr. Haughton exceedingly, 
 if he knew of them — which he does not — and 
 would probably have the effect of shortening
 
 luck; and what came of it. 153 
 
 his holiday for the second time in the year, 
 and of greatly inconveniencing his wife and 
 daughters, who are all delighted — each in her 
 several way, in being anywhere else than in 
 S^vinston. 
 
 There must now enter a new person into our 
 Comedy of Human Life. Is it to be a comedy? 
 Is it to be a tragedy? And is there to be a 
 flavour of farce in it ? "We shall see. Mean- 
 while, our new character must be introduced to 
 the reader. Is it possible he is to be the hero 
 of the story? We shall see that also in due 
 course of the narrative. But hero or no hero, 
 let him enter. 
 
 He enters in the person of Oscar Lebrun, aged 
 twenty-five or thereabouts ; handsome, of a dark 
 complexion, with dark eyes and dark hair, not so 
 much curly as wavy ; a well-made man, standing 
 five feet ten, with an aristocratic air and bear- 
 ing that impress people favourably, inasmuch as 
 there is no assumption or presumption about him, 
 but the grace of a gentleman, who seems to have
 
 154 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 been born a gentleman, and to be maintained in 
 that rank by his innate qualities and not by 
 externals. 
 
 Oscar Lebrun is a Frenchman — a Frenchman 
 of the South — but he speaks English as well as 
 an Englishman, and has been two years in the 
 service of j\Ir. Haughton in his machine depart- 
 ment, where he occupies the position of a fore- 
 man among the skilled artisans, and is known to 
 be an inventor. He is a man of talent in his 
 business, and has taken out one or two patents 
 of his own. 
 
 But Democrat as Mr. Haughton is, he has 
 never associated with this chief of his workmen 
 in any other capacity than that of employer 
 towards the employed. He has noticed him as a 
 superior person, well conducted, sober and indus- 
 trious, and respects him accordingly; but has 
 made no step with regard to this young man, 
 or indeed any other dependent on him, to 
 bridge over the gulf which separates class from 
 class, or rather caste from caste, in England,
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT GAME OF IT. 155 
 
 where the leaven of aristocracy leavens the 
 lump, not only of the aristocratic, but of the 
 commercial community. 
 
 Mr. Lebrun sat alone in his room, a decently 
 furnished lodoino- on the first floor over the 
 grocer's shop in the High Street of Smnston 
 — a room which owed much more of the little 
 elegancies which pervaded it, to his taste than 
 to that of his landlady, the grocer's wife. ^Ir. 
 Lebrun' s apartment, to judge from the side- 
 table between the windows, on which a mass 
 of correspondence, duly ticketed and labelled, 
 was displayed, looked like that of a lawyer or 
 a literary man. There was a pianoforte in the 
 room, on which instrument, Mr. Lebrun, ac- 
 cording to the statement of Mrs. Stebbings, 
 his landlady, w^as no mean performer, and on 
 which, like a good young man, as she said he 
 was, he amused himself in the evening instead 
 of going to the public-house along with the un- 
 married or married men in Mi\ Haughton's 
 employ. The good woman had often expressed
 
 156 luck; and what oame of it. 
 
 her wonder to her husband, who was a pious 
 man, and a lay preacher, why Mr. Lebrown, as 
 she called him, did not get married, so steady as 
 he was, and so handsome ; and why he had never 
 condescended to pay even a passing compliment- 
 to her daughter Ameha, who, she thought, was 
 a more than usually pretty girl. 
 
 Mr. Lebrun never appeared to have enter- 
 tained this idea; and certainly did not think 
 her prettier than half-a-hundred other girls in 
 Swinston. 
 
 The explanation was not known to Mrs. 
 Stebbings ; but the fact was that Oscar Lebrun's 
 heart was no longer his own, and that he had 
 parted with it long ago — to one, whom he consi- 
 dered the most beautiful and fascinating of her 
 sex. He and this fascinating person had not 
 exchanged vows of eternal constancy, inasmuch 
 as the fascinating person only suspected the ad- 
 miration of which she was the object, and did not 
 know that the river of admiration had broadened^ 
 deepened into a sea of love ; and he, on his and
 
 LUOK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 157 
 
 part, had lacked the courage or the opportunity 
 to declare himself. He had possessed himself of 
 the photograph of the young lady, not as a gift 
 from herself, but by bribing the Swinston photo- 
 grapher to print an extra one from the negative. 
 The photograph thus irregularly obtained lay 
 before him on his writing-table at the time when 
 the reader makes his acquaintance — a photograph 
 that did the fair original but scanty justice. 
 Indeed the photographs of the lovely are, as a 
 rule, not complimentary ; and only the very ugly 
 come out well under the terrible manipulations 
 of those who try to make an artist of the sun, 
 and too often spoil his workmanship. Mr. 
 Lebrun was an amateur artist as well as a musi- 
 cian, and had coloured the photograph into a 
 more favourable resemblance than the ungallant 
 sun or the bungling photographer had succeeded 
 in producing. The portrait was that of a lady 
 known to everybod}' in Swinston, and recognised 
 by all as that of the best and sweetest woman 
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 158 LUCK : AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 and who had a kmd word and a kmd thought for 
 everybody. 
 
 If the people of Swinston had known the love 
 secret of Mr. Oscar Lebrun, they would have 
 said that he had looked much too high. But no 
 one knew his love but himself, not even the 
 object of it. 
 
 Euphemia Haughton — for the portrait was 
 hers — was, however, not so unobservant as to be 
 utterly unaware that the handsome Frenchman 
 admired her, or that a tell-tale blush mounted to 
 his cheek whenever he happened to pass her in 
 public places, and lifted his hat to her with a 
 courtesy unknown to Englishmen of his station, 
 or indeed of any other station in our day. She 
 had also observed on Sundaj^s that on going to 
 or coming out of church, Mr. Lebrun seemed, 
 though not obtrusively so, to watch for the 
 opportunity of making the usual obeisance, and 
 that his cheeks flushed and his eyes sparkled as 
 he looked upon her. She was the divinity, he 
 was the worshipper; and she felt, by a fine
 
 luck: and what came of it. 159 
 
 instinct, that such were the occult relations that 
 existed between them. Nor was she offended 
 that he, socially so much lower do^yn m the 
 scale than she was, presumed to admire her. 
 
 Admiration, if genuine and respectful — and 
 the eyes can declare whether it is so or not — 
 is always gratifying to the recipient ; and 
 Euphemia Haughton would have been far less of 
 a woman, and far more of a disagreeable sort of 
 angel than she will appear in these pages, if she 
 had resented the respectful, the deep, the silent 
 homao^e of the best behaved and handsomest 
 3^oung man in Swinston. 
 
 Mr. Lebrun had looked upon the portrait -svith 
 an air that seemed to say, " How poor a thing is 
 art when it tries to represent the masterpieces of 
 nature," and had put it aside, as if it distracted 
 his attention from other matters that required it, 
 which was indeed the case. 
 
 He took a packet of letters from the table — all 
 duly endorsed in the most business-like manner, 
 with the dates, and the names of the senders.
 
 160 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 He had been eno-aofed with them for some time 
 — he did not know how long — when Amelia 
 Stebbings tapped gently at his door, and an- 
 nounced " that two gentlemen from Paris " 
 wished to see him. 
 
 " Let them come up," said Mr. Lebrun, which 
 he need not have said, for they had come up, and 
 were in the room ahnost before he had raised 
 his head from his correspondence. 
 
 The fair Amelia, on her part, was not able to 
 report to her father and mother anything lurther 
 that had happened, except that Mr. Oscar was 
 evidently surprised to see his visitors, that they 
 both kissed him on the cheek, which she thought 
 a highly improper and unbecoming thing in men ; 
 and that they all three spoke a foreign language, 
 which she supposed to be French. 
 
 Of the two strangers, the younger was a man 
 of military aspect — sun-browned, erect, and 
 about forty years of age. The other appeared 
 to be about sixty, was slightly bald, and had a 
 handsome beard, snow white, with a tinge of
 
 luck; and what came op it. 161 
 
 gold upon its tips, which would have been plea- 
 sant to the eyes of an artist. The younger man 
 had rough large hands, as of one accustomed to 
 manual labour -, the elder man had the delicate 
 hands of a lady or a student. Both of them made 
 themselves at home in the apartment of their 
 friend, who had evidently not expected their visit. 
 After a few inquiries and salutations had been 
 exchanged between them, Mr. Lebrun proposed 
 coffee — coffee such as Frenchmen love and which 
 Englishmen seldom taste, unless in Brussels or 
 Paris — or wine — the best he could afford — which 
 was but vin ordinaire. His friends pleaded 
 hurry, for refusmg the coffee which they would 
 have preferred had time permitted its prepara- 
 tion ; and glasses having been rung for and pro- 
 vided, not by Amelia, but by Mrs. Stebbings 
 herself, who had the curiosity to see what kind 
 of men they were who had called upon her 
 lodger, and who had the odd fashion of kissing 
 one another as if they had been women, the 
 three friends — for friends they were and not 
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 162 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 acquaintances merely — drew round the table 
 and prepared, as Mrs. Stebbings thought, for 
 a night either of business or pleasure. It was 
 of no use for her to attempt to listen to their 
 discussion, as they spoke French, for which 
 piece of bad taste or stubbornness she bore 
 them no good will. She therefore retired to 
 her lower regions, ^vith the charitable hope 
 that the strangers had not come to the town 
 for a bad purpose, and that they would not 
 stay too late and keep honest women out of 
 their beds to shut the door after them. 
 
 Oscar Lebrun did not smoke. His two visitors 
 did. While they are smoking and drinking 
 temperately, and preparmg the way for the busi- 
 ness on which they are to converse — for it is 
 business, and very serious business, which brings 
 the two strangers to such an out-of-the-way 
 place as Swinston-in-the-Fens — the reader shall 
 learn the secret of their names and purposes. 
 
 The elder — he of the snowy beard, the 
 philosophic head, the mild and gentlemanly de-
 
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 meanour, and the small white hands — was one 
 M. Oasimir Desmoulins, of Paris, the reddest of 
 red repubhcans, a violent orator, partly Fourierist, 
 partly Prud'hommist, partly Socialist, and alto- 
 gether a Communist, who worshipped but one 
 God, which he called Labour, and who was of 
 the opinion that labourers and thinkers, if they 
 could but be persuaded, induced, or forced to 
 combine together for mutual advantage, would 
 establish a new and more glorious civilisation 
 than the world had ever seen, and abolish idle- 
 ness, vice, poverty, and misery, from an earth 
 for the first time made happy, and fit for the 
 abode of innocent and reasonable beings. His 
 companion, M. Anastase Adolphe, was also of 
 the Commune — one of the three or four idols of 
 the working men of Paris, who set up idols very 
 rapidly and quite as rapidly demolish them, and 
 followed the respectable calling of a compositor 
 — 'Or setter up of types — in the printing office of 
 a great Parisian journal. He had large ideas 
 about the organisation of labour and what he 
 
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 164 luck; and what came op it. 
 
 called the detestable tyranny of capital, and 
 longed to reconstruct Society ujDon the veritable 
 and extreme doctrine of Liberty, Equality, and 
 Praternity, allowing no man to be better housed, 
 fed, or clothed than any other man — even if he 
 laboured more, and threw the proceeds of his 
 extra labour into a common fund for the benefit 
 of his less sturdy, less healthy, and less indus- 
 trious fellow-workers. 
 
 Mr. Lebrun knew them both well, was affiliated 
 with them in the Grand Central Committee of 
 Labour, that had its headquarters at Paris, and 
 shared many of their sentiments. 
 
 The two were delegates from this important 
 body, appointed to visit the principal centres of 
 iiidustry in Europe, to collect information as to 
 the wishes, wants, and feelings of the working 
 classes. The possibility of uniting all the 
 workers of the world in one great " League of 
 Justice and Humanity," and the abolition of 
 kingcraft, priestcraft, moneycraft, lawcraft, head- 
 craft, and every other craft except handicraft.
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 1 65 
 
 was an idea seriously entertained at Paris, and 
 which had its apostles and emissaries in e very- 
 capital and iQ many hundreds of smaller to"svns 
 throughout Europe. And it was upon this sub- 
 ject that M. Casimir Desmoulins and M. Anastase 
 Adolphe — deputed by the superior authority of 
 the great and inscrutable " Maireann," or " The 
 Perpetual " erroneously called Mary Anne — came 
 to consult Mr, Lebrun. 
 
 After the 'petit vin had circulated for awhile, 
 cheering but in no degree inebriating, and after 
 the decomposition into ashes and smoke of two 
 tolerably good cigars by the delegates, the busi- 
 ness of the evening commenced, informally, by 
 a friendly discussion on the attitude likely to be 
 assumed by the English working classes in the 
 event of a general uprising or strike of the 
 workers throughout Christendom. The object 
 of the proposed strike was to raise the status or 
 the wages of the working classes — meaning the 
 handicraft classes — and lower the status and the 
 earnings of the thinking classes, and of all
 
 166 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 classes that were too proud and too aristocratic 
 to labour with their hands. 
 
 It was the idea of M. Casimir Desmoulins to 
 establish once and for ever what he called the 
 true Christian idea — the Commune, the commu- 
 nity, the anthill, the beehive, the sacred society of 
 Maireann, or " The Perpetual," in which there 
 should be neither high nor low, neither rich nor 
 poor, and in which all men should stand on the 
 same level. 
 
 M. Casimir Desmoulins was of opinion that the 
 time was approaching when the Commune, crushed 
 under the cannon-balls of Generals Cavaignac 
 and Changarnier in 1848-49, and kept down for 
 twenty years by the heavy hand of a person 
 whom he contemptuously called Citizen 
 Buonaparte, would have another opportunity of 
 declaring itself. Buonaparte, he said, was 
 relaxing his grasp, not from intention, but from 
 weakness, physical and mental, and the signs of 
 the end were obvious. 
 
 M. Anastase Adolphe was of the same opinion,
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 167 
 
 and judged that the Millennium of Labour was 
 at hand, when soldiers, priests, lawyers, auto- 
 crats, emperors, and kings should all become 
 honest workers, diggers and delvers, builders and 
 spinners, or be put out of a world with the ideas 
 and wishes of which they were no longer in har- 
 mony. " These are our notions in Paris — notions 
 which prevail in Moscow and St. Petersburg," said 
 M. Adolphe. '' What do they say in England ? " 
 
 "English workmen," replied Lebrun, "are 
 not like French workmen. They have no ideas 
 except to do as little work as they can, for as 
 much money as they can get. Their esprit de 
 corps is limited to their own trades. The 
 demon of drunkenness has taken possession of 
 too many of them. They are bemuddled mth 
 beer. They don't see things as we see them, 
 and have no large-hearted loyalty to the work- 
 ing men of other countries. The organisa- 
 tion of labour, which to us is a new gospel, 
 the most beneficent ever preached to humanity, 
 is to them but a means of screwing a few more
 
 168 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 shillrngs per week out of the pockets of their 
 employers, which shillings are to be expended, 
 not for the elevation of themselves and their 
 fellows in the scale of humanity, not for educa- 
 tion, or even for healthy and undegrading 
 amusement, but in beer — beer — nothing but beer 
 and tobacco, occasionally varied with gin." 
 
 " It may have been so in the old days, but 
 are they not improving?" argued Casimir Des- 
 moulins, " are they not learning from intercourse 
 with the people of other countries to take 
 grander views of themselves, and of the com- 
 munity of labour to which they belong ? Have 
 they never heard of the solidarity of the peoples, 
 and of the solidarity of work ? " 
 
 " I think there is not one English workman 
 out of a hundred who knows what ' solidarity ' 
 means. There is no such word in the ordinaiy 
 English language. They can't embrace any 
 greater idea than that of their Union, and their 
 union is strictly confined to their own craft, what- 
 soever it may happen to be."
 
 luck; and what came of it. 169 
 
 " Do not the members of one trade sympathise 
 with the members of another trade that may be 
 on strike ? " 
 
 " Yes, vaguely, and after a fashion ; but not 
 to the extent of manifesting their sympathy by 
 their deeds, or by large contributions in money. 
 The builders care little for the grievances of the 
 shoemakers, and the engineers take no heed of 
 the strikes or the miseries of the tailors, and 
 vice versa. The fact is that the English in all 
 these matters are what they are on the map of 
 the world, insulaires., nothmg but insulairesy 
 
 "Time was," said Desmoulins, "when our 
 French workmen were almost as ignorant and 
 selfish, but a beneficent change has been recently 
 wrought, and I don't despair in this age of great 
 ideas that the new gospel of labour will convert 
 the Ens;lish as well as all the other nations of 
 the world," 
 
 *' But the English are a slow people ! " said 
 Lebrun. " They don't take kindly and readily 
 to new ideas, and, as I have said before, they
 
 170 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 worship the fat Bacchus that sits astride the 
 beer barrel. Why in this very town of Swin- 
 ston, the Dunderheads, a society of working 
 men, free men as they call themselves, have sold 
 their votes and independence, scores of them, for 
 a glass of ale apiece. What good present or 
 future can be expected from sots of this 
 sort?" 
 
 " Not much at present," said the hopeful 
 Desmoulins, " but I don't despair even of such 
 pigs (cochons) as those. A new generation is 
 arising, filled with nobler ideas, and the future 
 will right the inequalities and wipe away the 
 degradations of the present and the past." 
 
 *' But," said Lebrun, " the solidity is equal 
 to the stolidity of the English workman, and 
 perhaps the one quality is twin born with the 
 other ; and linked to it, Hke the two unfortunate 
 Siamese twins. There will be no great change 
 in the labour question in England, until England, 
 like France, shall have passed through the fire 
 and blood of a social Kevolution. And the time
 
 luck; and what came of it. 171 
 
 for that is not yet ; believe me. But it is 
 coming, nevertheless. I see it : and the govern- 
 ing classes and the rich classes see it, and 
 endeavour in small and petty ways to retard the 
 evil day. Drunkenness and pauperism on one 
 side, and on the other a base money w^orship, are 
 eating out the heart and spirit of a once great 
 and noble people. The rich are afraid of the 
 poor, and, instead of elevating them and instruct- 
 ing them, pauperise them by eleemosynary soup 
 and coals, and religious tracts, teaching them 
 that the first duty of man and woman is sub- 
 mission to constituted authority, whether that 
 authority be right or wrong, wise or foolish, 
 clement or cruel. Add to this, that the rich treat 
 the poor as if they were children, and that the 
 legislature forbids amusement and recreation on 
 the only possible day when poor people have the 
 leisure to enjoy themselves, and you have a 
 national picture which does not appear to me 
 to be a pleasant one, and which accounts for 
 much in the English character which was not
 
 172 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 intelligible to me when I first came to live in. 
 this country. When the English do arise, their 
 uprising will be terrible ! " 
 
 *' In the event of a general strike in the 
 engineer's trade," inquired Desmoulins, " will 
 the people in Mr. Haughton's employ cast in 
 their lot with their fellows ? " 
 
 " Yes, most likely with their fellows in 
 England ; but not with their fellows in France, 
 Belgium, or Germany. The Englishman is less 
 of a cosmopolitan than any man in the world." 
 
 " And now my dear friend Oscar," said 
 Desmoulins, " to come to the real point, the 
 matter which brought us here. Are you pre- 
 pared to give up your employment with Mr. 
 Haughton, and return to Paris, to work with 
 us and for Maireann ? " 
 
 Oscar's face turned pale. 
 
 " There may be," he said, " many reasons 
 why I should obey the call, and only one why 
 I should not ; but that one is very powerful, 
 and exercises a paramount influence over me."
 
 luck; and what game of it. 173 
 
 " An affair of the heart ? " 
 
 " Perhaps," — and Oscar Lebrun blushed like a 
 gu'l; but he went on to say, "let us talk no 
 more. Doubtless you will find me ready when 
 I am wanted." 
 
 " Alas ! " said Desmoulins, " the great apostles 
 and saviours of humanity, who are destined to 
 lead it out of the heavy ruts into which its 
 chariot wheels have stuck fast for so many ages, 
 ought to have no hearts except for their work. 
 And I thought you were one of them." 
 
 " I am not one of them ; though at one time 
 I thought I might be." 
 
 "You are one of them," said Desmoulins. 
 " I know you better than you know yourself. 
 But you will come to Paris when sent for ? 
 We want your report on English labour, and all 
 feel that it will be an able one." 
 
 " You shall have it as correctly as I can make 
 it," replied Lebrun. "' Is the time now ? " 
 
 " Not exactly now," replied Desmoulins, 
 " but fast approaching. We are its precursors
 
 174} luck; and what came op it. 
 
 to you. Adieu, Camarade ! Adieu, clier con- 
 citoyen ! Vive I'egalit^ ! Vive la liberie ! Vive 
 la fraternite! " 
 
 Oscar saw his visitors to their hotel, and 
 returned to his lodging so pre-occupied with his 
 own thoughts that he did not hear Amelia 
 Stebbings wish him good-night when she opened 
 the door, and handed him a candle. He went 
 dreamily to a sleepless couch, thinking far more 
 of Euphemia Haughton than of the rights and 
 wrongs of the working classes, of the in- 
 scrutable, awful, Maireann, or of the possible 
 Red Republic, of which he was expected to be 
 one of the founders. 
 
 ** Perhaps," he thought, " I may be one of 
 the victims. But of what use is thinking? 
 Fate is Fate, and mine is dragging me whither 
 it must," And he took the portrait of Euphemia 
 Haughton from under the pillow where he 
 always placed it at night, and pressed it fervently 
 to his lips.
 
 luck; and what came of it. 175 
 
 CHAPTEE IX. 
 
 We have seen nothing as yet of Mr. Herbert 
 Haughton, only son of Mr. Haughton of Mill 
 Haughton, and as he is to be one of the charac- 
 ters in our life drama, and may possibly play 
 a considerable part in it, we proceed to make 
 his acquaintance. He was, as has been said, in 
 his twenty-third year, and, in his mother's eyes, 
 was as beautiful as Apollo, or Antinous. In 
 his father's eyes, he was a presentable enough 
 kind of young man. In his elder sister's eyes, 
 he was a srenius, and she cared more for genius 
 than for good looks. In his younger sister's 
 estimation, he was what she called a " tease,"
 
 176 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 because, following his mother's example, he 
 sometimes jeered at her irrepressible chignon. 
 He was decidedly clever, and fancied that he 
 knew and had studied more of London life in 
 all its phases, high and low, than any other 
 young man of his age, and that he had gone 
 through and handled a vast amount of dirt 
 and pitch, without having defiled himself. 
 He loved art with a sincere affection, and as 
 any sincere affection tends to preserve the fresh- 
 ness and the purity of the mind, he congratu- 
 lated himself amid the loneliness of his London 
 life, that he had higher aspirations than the 
 passing day could satisfy, and that he had his 
 art to love, if he had nothing else. His father 
 made him a fair, indeed a liberal allowance, to 
 help him along the thorny byways and the 
 flinty highways that lead to celebrity, an allow- 
 ance with which it would have been the greatest 
 pleasure of his life, if he could have dispensed. 
 He was a sculptor, and had sold one statuette 
 for fifty pounds, and in the greatness of his joy
 
 luck; and what came of tt. 177 
 
 at being able, or seeing a prospect of being 
 able, to earn his daily bread by his own talents, 
 he had cashed the cheque, by which it was paid 
 for, into sovereigns, and spread them out upon a 
 little table in his studio, and actually danced 
 and capered around it, exclaiming, in the exhu- 
 berance of his delight, " Xow I shall be inde- 
 pendent of my father and of all the world. 
 Now I am a man for the first time. Hurra! 
 Hurra ! " He told the story himself, Avithout 
 concealment of his weakness, to his uncle the 
 Colonel the same evening at the Colonel's 
 Club, and the Colonel, notwithstanding that 
 he himself was about the most unenthusiastic 
 and selfish of men, thought he liked his 
 nephew all the better for his little bit of eccen- 
 tricity. 
 
 This young gentleman, having resolved to 
 take a holiday in the West Highlands, partly 
 because his family were there, and partly because 
 he had been long anxious to study nature in 
 the sublime solitudes of those regions, found 
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 178 LUT'K; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 himself at Oban a week after liis father's arrival. 
 He had not been there a day before he dis- 
 covered two stransrers — strano-ers at least to 
 him — who had established an intimacy in the 
 household. The one was Lord O'Monaghan, 
 whoAi he very soon perceived was attracted by 
 his father's daughter. The other was Mr. 
 Rigglesby, M.P., who, he perceived, though 
 not quite so speedily, was attracted by his 
 father's money. So he made up his mind to 
 study these two gentlemen at his leisure, and 
 discover, if he could, whether the one was worthy 
 of his sister, and Avhether the designs of the 
 other upon his father's i)urse were legitimate. 
 
 A day or two before his arrival it had been 
 proposed by Lord O'Monaghan, that the whole 
 party, on the first clear calm day, should take 
 passage to lona, in one of the steamers of the 
 Hutcheson fleet, that they should stay all night 
 on the island, and inspect its antiquities at their 
 leisure. The proposal was enthusiastically 
 received, and duly communicated to the new-
 
 luck; and what came of it. 179 
 
 comer. He, on his part, entered into it with 
 as much zest and relish as the rest. 
 
 " I am told," said Rigglesby, " that if we 
 want anything to drink in lona, except water or 
 ginger beer, we must take it with us, as the Duke 
 of Clan Campbell, who owns the whole island, 
 and acts as if he owned the people, will not 
 allow a drop of anything stronger than ginger 
 beer or milk to be sold on its sacred soil." 
 
 " I've enquired about that," said O'Monaghan, 
 " and the story 's near upon true, though not 
 exactly. The Duke allows beer to be sold, but 
 not whiskey, so if any of us want whiskey — and 
 1 know I should like a drop, especially if I m 
 forbidden to taste it — we must take it with us." 
 
 " A piece of abominable tyranny," said the 
 ^lember for Swinston. " For my part, I don't 
 want any whiskey, but 1 shall take a bottle, or 
 two bottles, or as many bottles as it pleases me, 
 if it be only to show m}' independence." 
 
 " My opinion, and my determination also," 
 
 said Rigglesby. " I don't care if I don't taste 
 
 12 *
 
 180 luck; axd what came of it. 
 
 whiskey once in a twelvemonth, but the once in 
 a twelvemonth shall be the night I pass in lona. 
 The Duke would make an excellent Sultan if 
 lona were as big as Turkey." 
 
 " I have heard of the Duke's doings," said 
 young Mr. Herbert. " The Colonel told me 
 the last time I dined with him at the Rag, that m 
 another island, the whole of which also belongs to 
 a great Scottish proprietor, the factor or agent 
 affixed a notice to the Church door, setting forth 
 that any tenant of his Lordship who paid a less 
 rental than thirty pounds per annum, who should 
 be guilty of drinking whiskey, gin, rum, brandy, 
 or any other spirituous liquor, at christenings, 
 marriages, funerals, or an}^ social gatherings 
 whatsoever, should be dispossessed of his farm, 
 without appeal, at the next term, or quarter-day." 
 
 " Bedad ! and that 's clever," said Lord 
 O'Monaghan. 
 
 " Clever ? " replied Herbert. " I think it's an 
 unwarrantable stretch of arbitrary authority ! " 
 
 " Not n. bit of it ! you 're too severe, my
 
 LUOK ; AND WHAT CAME Oi' IT. l8l 
 
 young friend. It 's only Scotch canniness, and 
 no Irishman or Englishman would ever have 
 thought of it. It 's his Lordship's fun, you see ; 
 the comical, and I must say the very original 
 way he has of raising the rents of the poor 
 people. The Scotch must have their whiskey — 
 that's to be taken for granted. If they will 
 pay thirty-five pounds per annum — or for the 
 matter of that, thirty-one pounds — they can have 
 their whiskey, and drink as much of it as they 
 please ! " 
 
 Lord O'Monaghan laughed at his own joke, 
 and so did Miss Esther, and indeed most of the 
 company, except the elder Mr. Haughton, who 
 was too indignant at what he deemed an in- 
 fringement of the liberty of the subject to share 
 the merriment that Lord O'Monaghan's inuendo 
 had provoked. It was agreed, however, by the 
 gentlemen, nemine contradicpite^ that among the ^ ( 
 stores for their excursion, a sufficient if not 
 bountiful supply of Gillies' s best Oban whiskey 
 should be provided, if it were only to show
 
 182 LUCK ; AKD WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 that the Duke's sumptuary laws w^ere inope- 
 rative ; and whether or not the Duke's objections 
 applied to Champagne, that a due supply of that 
 beverage should be laid in at the same time, 
 for the consumption of the ladies. 
 
 " ] wish the Dukes, and the Earls, and the 
 Bishops, and the Deans, and the Baronets, and 
 all the big people who are so fuss}^ about the 
 drinking habits of small people, would let the 
 small people alone," said Mr. Haughton to Mr. 
 Rigglesby, as they sat in front of the Alexandra 
 Hotel, and listened more or less attentively to 
 the strains of the German band that yearly 
 favours Oban with its company, and to the 
 music of which the ladies delight to pace up 
 and down in the long delicious summer evenings. 
 " The poor have as much right to eat and 
 drink what they please as the rich have. I 
 detest drunkenness, but I equally detest any 
 suggested remedy that presupposes a man to be 
 either a baby or an idiot, who has to be looked 
 after lest he should do himself an injury. For-
 
 luck; and what came of it. 183 
 
 merly it was the rich Avho disgraced themselves 
 by getting habitually and enormously drunk 
 and the poor who were habitually sober. Now 
 the case is reversed. It was not Parliamentary 
 laws, or the shutting up of wine shops, or gin 
 shops, or beer shops, or the imposition of 
 penalties upon offenders that wrought the 
 change. It was the social law, stronger than 
 Parliamentary law, that made it disgraceful in 
 a man of position to be seen drunk, that pro- 
 duced a remedy — slow but sure. I believe the 
 same results will be obtahied in the case of the 
 poor, il the poor be educated, and especially if they 
 be spared the insolent interference of the rich." 
 
 "So do I," said Rigglesby, "and more than 
 all, I believe that if good wine were as cheap 
 as small beer — which it might be — the Avliole 
 people, rich and poor, would become as sober as 
 the French or the Spaniards." 
 
 "I quite agree witli you," rejohied ^Ir. 
 Haughton, " and the Maine Liquor Law fellows 
 and the Permissive Bill fellow^s shall have my
 
 184 LUCK ; a:nd what caaie of it. 
 
 constant opposition, though the affable whip 
 himself should ask me to vote for them." 
 
 " The whole case of the Permissive Bill is 
 well put in a song which I heard when I was in 
 Edinburgh," said Rigglesby. 
 
 '' Do you remember it ? " 
 
 " I took do'svn one stanza — here it is," and 
 Riojolesbv drew a memorandum book from his 
 pocket and read 
 
 If I have wealth aud means enousrh 
 
 To import a pipe of wine, 
 While you one glass of humbler stuff 
 
 Must purchase when you dine ; 
 then I '11 run my little Bill 
 
 While wetting well my i>rog, 
 To permit me to prevent you 
 
 From buying a glass of grog. 
 it 's a little simple Bill 
 
 That seeks to pass incog., 
 To permit me to prevent you 
 
 From having a glass of grog ! 
 
 " The whole gist and marrow of the matter," 
 said Haughton ; " who is the author ? " 
 
 "' One of the Scottish Judges, whose name 
 1 am not at liberty to mention."
 
 LUOK; AND WHAT CAAli; 0¥ IT. 185 
 
 '" Oh, nothing 's a secret now-a-days. I will 
 lind him out and endeavour to make his 
 acquaintance if I return home through Edin- 
 burgh." 
 
 " You won't find him. Nobody that is any- 
 body is to be found m Edinburgh at this season, 
 or for tlie next two months." 
 
 " Ah, I didn't think of the season. But another 
 time, perhaps. I have heard that the Scottish 
 Judges and Sheriffs are jolly boys, as we say in 
 England — comical souls, good at a song or a 
 story, or a jest, and the best of all good com- 
 pany, if they meet with congenial comrades." 
 
 "No," said Riggiesby, "not now ; that's a 
 tradition of the past. There are exceptions, and 
 the author of this song is one. But the ex- 
 ceptions are few, and growing old ; and no new 
 men are rising to fill their places. We are all 
 growing stifi' and staid, and stupid and solemn. 
 Company is not the company that it used to be, 
 and still is in some countries. In fact, there is 
 no company in England. Conviviality is as
 
 186 luck; and what came op it. 
 
 dead as the Heptarchy. Goodfellowship has 
 given up the ghost. The stolid Anglo-Saxon — 
 I beg you to remember that I am a Celt, or a 
 Kelt — would think at a dinner table or at des- 
 sert that you had a malicious and long pre- 
 arranged intention to insult him if you asked 
 him to sing a song. ' Is thy servant a dog, or 
 a play-actor, or a professional singer, that you 
 should ask him to do this thing? ' We are all 
 prigs, we are all humbugs, and stuck-up noodles, 
 who think it our duty to look grave and respect- 
 able ; though our only qualiti cation for gravity 
 and respectability is our dense, crass, Anglo- 
 Saxon stupidity." 
 
 " Come, come ! " said Mr. Haughton, " none 
 of your jibes at the Anglo-Saxons. I am an 
 Anglo-Saxon." 
 
 "Not entirely," replied Rigglesby, "you 
 must be more or less of a Kelt. There never 
 was a pure unadulterated Anglo- Saxon that was 
 fit for anything but to be a hewer of wood and 
 a drawer of water, or if he were a livelier
 
 luck; A^^I) WHAT CA3IE OF IT. 187 
 
 Anglo-Saxon than usual, to kick his wife with 
 ]iis heaviest boots on — and think he was gaining 
 her love bv it. Bah I The Analo-Saxons are 
 the dullest people in the world." 
 
 " Nonsense I " said Mr, Haughton. " Think 
 of" Shakespeare. Was he not an Anglo-Saxon ? 
 
 "1 do think of Shakspeare, and I think of 
 Milton, and I think of Byron. All Kelts, every 
 one of them. You are not ' up ' on this subject, 
 I am ! The Saxons, erroneously called the 
 Anglo-Saxons, never, in their so-called conquest 
 of England, penetrated beyond the maritime 
 counties. They never got into the heart of the 
 country I Warwickshire was as free from the 
 Saxons of the seventh century as Ireland Avas. 
 Shakspeare was a Kelt." 
 
 " But his name ? " interposed Mr. Haughton. 
 
 " I don't care for his name ; names, or more 
 properly surnames, are of recent origin, not 
 older than the thirteenth century. 'J'he Saxon 
 name signifies nothing. iSames, that is to say 
 surnames, are of accidental growth. Christian
 
 188 luck; and what came ot* IT. 
 
 names are one thing — sanctified by the Church 
 at baptism, and remahi unchanoeable for the 
 lifetime of the recipient — but surnames are ar- 
 bitrary, and always have been. My surname is 
 exactly what I choose it shall be. I am Smith 
 to day ; 1 may be Brown to-morrow, and I 
 may be Robinson the day after." 
 
 " Are you not wild ? are you not rambling ? " 
 
 " Not a bit of it. In my youth I was wit- 
 ness in a cause in the Court of Common Pleas, 
 and heard one of the wisest and noblest of 
 English Judges, the late Lord Chief Justice 
 Tindal lay down the whole law on the subject, 
 and I never forgot it." 
 
 " Then what is the law ? " 
 
 " The law is that your name is whatever you 
 choose to call yourself ; that no one's consent 
 to your changing your name is necessary but 
 your own." 
 
 " Then why do people ask the Queen's con- 
 sent to such change, or register it in the 
 Herald's College."
 
 luck; and what came of it. 189 
 
 " Only to advertise more widely the fact of 
 the change, and neither step is necessary. A 
 private notification to all your friends, or an 
 advertisement in the * Times ' or ' Daily Tele- 
 graph ' would answer all the purposes. So you 
 see that if the Celtic fathers or grandfathers of 
 Shakspeare had conferred upon them, or con- 
 ferred upon themselves, the Saxon name of 
 Shakspeare — or WagstafFe — it would be no 
 proof thnt they were of Saxon lineage. I once 
 knew a man of the name of Catt, who was in 
 love with a beautiful girl, but who refused to 
 marr}^ him on the plea that she should not like 
 to be called Mrs. Catt, and, if she had a family, 
 to be asked after the ' kittens.' He changed his 
 name to Montmorency, and the fair lady accepted 
 him. Shakspeare was a Kelt." 
 
 If Rigglesby had a monomania it was for 
 Celticism ; and Haughton having acquired the 
 knowledge of his weakness forbore to prolong a 
 discussion, that if but gently encouraged he 
 foresaw might become interminable.
 
 190 LUCK : AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 "Let's join O'Monaghan and the women 
 folk," he said, rising from his seat. 
 
 " By all means," said Rigglesby ; " bnt in the 
 meantime, before we come up with them, let me 
 ask you if you do not observe that his Lordship 
 seems ' sweet ' upon your youngest daughter." 
 
 "I am going to speak to my wife to-night 
 upon that very subject," said Mr. Haughton. 
 "Do you know much of Lord O'Monaghan? 
 Does he bear a good character ? " 
 
 " The best of characters ; a right good, warm- 
 hearted generous specimen of an Irish gentle- 
 man of the best class, but somewhat impe- 
 cunious — that is, occasionally. He has long 
 been on the lookout for a Colonial Governorship, 
 and when Mr. Disraeli returns to power I 
 daresay he will get what he wants. He has 
 rendered services to his party, and the Tories, I 
 must say, are far more grateful to their friends 
 than the Whigs and Radicals." 
 
 " Has he any property at all ? " 
 
 " Oh yes ; the remains of an excellent pro-
 
 LUCK ; AND What came op it. 191 
 
 perty. But what 's a couple of thousands a 
 year if your expenses are double ? However, if 
 he got a governorship he might leave his little 
 bit of property to nurse until he came home. I 
 never thought him to be a marrying man, but, 
 as j^'ou must have seen, he is more or less smitten 
 with Miss Esther." 
 
 It was Mr. Haughton's private opinion, though 
 he said nothing upon the subject, that the pair 
 would not be ill- matched. What he had to say 
 he reserved for the private ear of Mrs. Haugh- 
 ton.
 
 192 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 The clay appointed for the excursion to StafFa 
 and lona dawned as pleasantly as the most hope- 
 ful holiday-maker could have desired. The lovely 
 bay of Oban sparkled in the light of the morning 
 sun. The hills of Kerrera looked green and 
 grey and brown and purple in the varying 
 depths and heights of glen and crag, and the 
 dark outlines of the noble mountains of Mull 
 and the still nobler mountains of Ardg'our 
 traced themselves clearly against the unclouded 
 skv, solemn and silent, but lookino' of smaller 
 altitude than they actually were, in the ab- 
 sence f)f the cloud and mist which lend such
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT GAME OF IT. 193 
 
 gloomy magnificence to the hills of the western 
 Highlands. 
 
 Not one of the party had ever made this 
 voyage before, but everyone had heard or read 
 of the beauties and sublimities of the scenery, 
 and one in particular knew every foot of the 
 ground and every wave of the water with which 
 a leo;end or a tradition was associated. 
 
 Euphemia Haughton had been a diligent 
 reader of the poetry and romances of Sir Walter 
 Scott, and these scenes, familiar to her imagi- 
 nation, burst upon her delighted eyes in all their 
 physical reality, infusing her whole being with 
 a sense of joy and of anticipation realised, with 
 which she found no one to sympathise so completely 
 as her brother. He, with an artist's eye, saw at 
 every turn the innumerable beauties of sea and 
 rock for which the whole coast is celebrated, and 
 formed the resolution to travel as little in steam- 
 boats as he could while in Scotland, and to be 
 as much on the tramp as possible, Avith his staff 
 in his hand and his sketch-book in his pocket. 
 I. 13
 
 ]94 luck; and wftat c.kmk of it. 
 
 Nor were Mr. and Mrs. Haughton by any 
 means insensible to the natural beauties of the 
 landscape. Mrs. Hauo'hton was what her hus- 
 band sometimes called a fanatical Scot, and 
 thouofht there were no mountains like Scotch 
 mountains, no rivers, no burnies, no lochs, no 
 seas like those of Scotland, and no rains, nor 
 mists, nor storms comparable to those of her 
 dearly beloved native land. Mr. Haughton, 
 though well read, had been too busy a man to 
 retain his youthful delight in literature, and 
 listened with pleased and attentive interest as 
 his daughter recalled the poetical, legendary, 
 or historical incidents associated with each me- 
 morable spot. On one side were the undulating 
 hills of Kerrera, where Haco King of Norway 
 encamped with a large army in the thirteenth 
 centur}^ when bent on the subjugation of Scot- 
 land, in that mighty expedition which ended 
 so disastrously for him and so gloriously for 
 Scotland at the battle of Largs. On the other 
 stood the grim ruins of DunoUy Castle, high
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME 0¥ IT. 195 
 
 perched upon a crag, the ancient stronghold of 
 the Lords of the Isles. Before them, as the 
 steamer sped on her way across the Linnhe Loch 
 stretched the broad expanse of the Sound of 
 Mull. At its entrance, within sight of the 
 ancient Castle of Duart, just showing its head 
 above the waves, was the Lady's Rock, looking 
 not much larger than a dining table, whither 
 Maclean of Duart conveyed his wife, one of the 
 Campells of Lorn, and left her to perish m the 
 rising tide. The incident is commemorated by 
 Thomas Campbell in his " Ballad of Glenara," 
 and by Joanna Baillie in her tragedy of " The 
 Family Legend." Beyond Duart on the Morven 
 shore, or mainland of Scotland, Ardtornish came 
 into view, and next again Aros in Mull, and 
 man}' other castles celebrated m immortal verse. 
 Effie read from Anderson's " Guide to the High- 
 lands " — a model of what a guide-book ought 
 to be — a general description of these robber 
 eyries, these picturesque remnants of times and 
 manners long since passed away, and of which 
 
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 196 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 the gloomy shores of Mull and Morven contain 
 so many. 
 
 Nothmo; can be more wild than the situa- 
 tions chosen for these fortresses ; sometimes on 
 detached islets or pinnacles ; more generally on 
 promontories surrounded on three sides by the 
 sea ; and on high precipitous rocks command- 
 ing an extensive view and a ready communi- 
 cation with the water. Straight and narrow 
 stairs, little better than stone ladders, and 
 arched vaults, are a frequent mode of access ; 
 and in some cases, between the top of these 
 stairs and the mam building, yawning chasms 
 intervene, across which, as occasion required, a 
 slender drawbridge was lowered. Rude but 
 strong buttresses propped up the walls, which 
 occasionally were continued to a distance from 
 the principal keep, so as to form a court or 
 ballium. But great extent is not to be looked 
 for in these buildings. Their dimensions are 
 small, and their accommodations slender and 
 simple compared with the edifices which in
 
 LUCfe: ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. l97 
 
 the south remain to attest the warlike propen- 
 sities and state of ancient times. 
 
 " What untold, and untellable romances," said 
 Euphemia, " are hidden in these old ruins — un- 
 tellable, that is, unless a new Walter Scott 
 should arise to magnetise them into life." 
 
 " No one," said Herbert, " would read them in 
 our day if there were a second Walter Scott. The 
 modern world has grown weary of those antique 
 revivals, and wants to know something of itself." 
 
 " And a very praiseworthy want too ! " said 
 his father. 
 
 Passing into and out of the little sheltered 
 harbour of Tobermory — where one of the finest 
 ships of the Spanish Armada was scuttled, local 
 tradition says, by the agency of the Witch of 
 Mull, a formidable old beldame who dwelt on 
 the slopes of Benmore — the steamer breasted 
 the wild waves of the Ardnamurchan shore, 
 floated out into the great Atlantic, and thence 
 bending her course to the south, skirted the 
 rugged western shores of Mull.
 
 198 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. 
 
 A German Professor from the University of 
 Heidelberg was on board, and got into conver- 
 sation with Mr. Haughton. 
 
 " I think," said the Professor, " that you 
 English people — I presume you are English, 
 sir?" (Mr. Haughton bowed.) — "are very 
 wrong to go to the Rhme and to France when 
 you have such a country as this to visit. There 
 is nothing equal to this in Europe, not even in 
 Switzerland. Switzerland is grand, very grand, 
 1 admit ; but it wants the sea. Here you have 
 mountains, not so high as the Swiss moimtains, 
 it is true, but which look higher because they 
 have their feet in the ocean, and you can see 
 them in their full lieioht without intervenino; 
 obstacles ; and then you have the sea itself — 
 the most magnificent object m nature," 
 
 " Very true I " replied Mr. Haughton ; *' I 
 like Scotland, and always have liked it. I think 
 with you, that the intermingling of sea and 
 mountain is the great charm of Scottish scenery. 
 What do you tViirik Lord O'Monaghan?" he
 
 LtJCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 199 
 
 asked, as that gentleman joined the group, 
 accompanied by Miss Ettie ; "we have been 
 comparing Switzerland with Scotland — as re- 
 gards picturesqueness and sublimity — and given 
 the palm to Scotland." 
 
 " I give the palm to Scotland, and most de- 
 cidedly. I know nothing grander than Scotland, 
 except the Lakes of Killarney and the Bay of 
 Bantry." 
 
 " True enough." said Mr. Haughton ; " Kil- 
 larney is very well ; but then you have only 
 one Killarney. Here in Scotland we have five 
 hundred lakes, each as beautiful as Killarney ; 
 and as for the Bay of Bantry, it is nothing to 
 the Estuary of the Clyde, or to the Sound of 
 Mull." 
 
 " I have been in Ireland," said the German 
 Professor, " and found it a beautiful country, 
 inhabited by a fine ])eople — the most patient 
 people in the world, notwithstanding all that 
 has been said to the contrary. But still Scot- 
 land seems tu me to be far more interesting.
 
 200 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 The country is grand and the people are grand. 
 I admire the scene^ of the one ; I admire and 
 reverence the history of the other. A small 
 people in point of numbers the Scotch have 
 alwaj'^s been ; but what a mark they have made 
 in the world I England itself is more Scotch 
 than English." 
 
 " Oh how delighted I am to hear you sa}' so," 
 interposed Euphemia, almost afraid of the sound 
 of her own voice. 
 
 " But they are not better than the Irish, are 
 they ?" asked Esther. 
 
 " Thank you, darlin', lor that sensible ques- 
 tion," interposed O'Monaghan ; "if you will 
 excuse me saying darlin' — and you must, for I 
 could not help it — and besides, I apologise if I 
 have done wrong." 
 
 " No wrons:," said Esther, " I like a man who 
 sticks up for his country. I wonder why the 
 EngHsh don't stick up for theii- country, as the 
 Scotch and Irish do ? " 
 
 " Well ! " said his Lordship ; " it 's because
 
 luck; and what came of it. 201 
 
 they have got so little to stick up for except 
 their wealth, and that speaks! for itself. It does 
 not become a man to boast of his riches." 
 
 "It's not that exactly," said Rigglesby ; 
 " England is strong in the consciousness of 
 power, and does not need to assert herself as 
 we poor Irish must if we would be held of 
 any account whatever." 
 
 " But that does not explain the self-assertion 
 of the Scotch," said the German Professor. 
 " Scotland has no complaint to make of England, 
 and holds her own as equal to equal, though the 
 smaller country." 
 
 " I'm no so sure that Scotland is smaller," 
 said Mrs. Haughton; "and it 's just doubtful, as 
 Peter Robertson used to say (Lord Robertson, 
 ye ken), that if the hills of Scotland were a' 
 squeezed down to the flatness of Lincolnshire 
 Scotland wad be kroner than Enoiand." 
 
 The whole party laughed, and the German 
 Professor, who was making notes of his tour — 
 probably with a view to a volume of travels to
 
 202 LUCK; AND WHAT CAME Ol^ IT. 
 
 be published in the Fatherland — took his me- 
 morandum book from his pocket and entered 
 the old joke. 
 
 By this time the steamer was making her way 
 past the Treshnish Isles — isles of all fantastic 
 forms, amongst which one called the Dutch- 
 man's Cap, from its supposed resemblance to 
 that article of head-gear, was conspicuous ; and 
 StafFa, like a huge lump, appeared in the dis- 
 tance. 
 
 " 1 wonder where the island got the name of 
 StafFa ? " said Mr. Haughton. " It sounds 
 English — something like StaiFord. The Cave of 
 Fingal is of course a merely fanciful name : it 
 might as well be the Cave of Ossian or Cu- 
 chullin or Brian Boru." 
 
 " I don't know," replied Rigglesby ; " I am 
 no philologist." 
 
 " I don't speak the language ol my ances- 
 tors — the more's the shame to me," said Lord 
 O'Monaghan, " but I have no doubt the name 
 is Gaelic."
 
 luck; ANt> WHAT CAME OF IT. 203 
 
 " It is Gaelic," said the German Professor, 
 " and is derived from the two Gaelic words, 
 stuadh (stua), columns, and uamh or wa/, a cave; 
 whence Stua-ufa, corrupted to Staffa, which 
 means the Cave of Columns." 
 
 '* I think that it is not creditable to any of 
 us," said Mr. Haughton, " that a stranger should 
 know more of the original language of the 
 people of these regions than we do." 
 
 "Yes," replied the Professor ; "it is aston- 
 ishing to us in Germany, who know how 
 ancient, how rich, and how beautiful a language 
 the Gaelic is, to see with what contempt or 
 neglect it has been treated by English philolo- 
 gists. English philology is at a low ebb. Your 
 very best philologist is a countryman of my 
 oAvn, Max Miiller ; and he know^s less of Gaelic 
 than he does of Sanscrit ; but Gaelic is per- 
 haps the older language of the two." 
 
 *' I suspect it is Dr. Johnson, the author of 
 the Dictionary — a very prejudiced man," said 
 Mr. Haughton, " who is responsible for having
 
 204 LUCK: AND WHAT CAME OP IT. 
 
 brought the language of the Gaels into dis- 
 repute in England. He called it, I believe, the 
 barbarous jargon of savages." 
 
 " ^r I'oar ein dummer Esel! '^ said the Ger- 
 man Professor. " No such ignorant man as he 
 was ever before, or I think since, attempted the 
 compilation of a dictionary." 
 
 " I wonder if we shall row right into the 
 cave, or whether we shall have to clamber over 
 the rocks," interrupted Miss Esther, to whom 
 this philological discourse was not in the 
 slightest degree interesting. 
 
 " The boats cannot enter, there 's too much 
 swell," said the mate of the steamer, who was 
 to accompany the party. " We shall have to land, 
 but the climbing 's not so difficult as it looks." 
 
 " Oh, but I 'm an awful bad climber," said 
 Esther Haughton. 
 
 " And I 'm an awful good climber," replied 
 O'Monaghan, " and it 's myself that '11 be well 
 pleased to help you along, if you will do me the 
 honour to accept my assistance."
 
 luck; and what came of it. 205 
 
 " And I '11 look after my mother," said Her- 
 bert. 
 
 " And I after Effie," said Mr. Haughton. 
 
 " And I after myself," said Mr. Rigglesby. 
 
 By this time the steamer had come to a stop, 
 and the passengers had opportunity for a full 
 view of the Island, and its singular formation 
 of basaltic rock, and could for the first time 
 form an estimate of the true proportions of the 
 splendid cave, which they were about to enter. 
 There were near upon a hundred passengers, 
 who after a little preliminary confusion, conse- 
 ' quent upon the hustling and bustling always 
 caused by people who want to be first when 
 there is no necessity why they should be either 
 first or second, were all comfortably stowed in 
 the boats, and as comfortably landed upon the 
 pavement of pentagonal rocks that form the 
 strand or shore of Staffa. The ladies, as they 
 wound their way sometimes up and sometimes 
 down the stones towards the great entrance of 
 the cave — gallantly assisted by the gentlemen —
 
 206 LUCK : AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 lit up the whole scene with the brilliant colours 
 of their costumes — I'ed, white, and blue, like 
 flowers in a garden when shaken by the wind. 
 
 The scene when ths whole party was gathered 
 along the perilous ledge of rock that leads to 
 the exetremity of this Cathedral of the Sea was 
 one to make an impression on the most careless 
 mind, and to be long treasured in the memory 
 of every lover of beauty. 
 
 Herbert Haughton at one moment felt inclined 
 to shout for joy at the spectacle, and at another to 
 hush his breath for reverence. Miss Euphemia 
 had hold of his hand and pressed it, as she 
 whispered, " This exceeds all 1 had ever ima- 
 gined ? " Even her usually careless and in- 
 considerate sister was awed into admiration. One 
 of the tourists, a venerable person, who looked 
 like an English clergyman, proposed that the 
 whole party should join in the Doxology ; and 
 leading off in a deep sonorous voice, he was 
 quickly joined by nearly all present. The effect 
 was grand and solemn, and the noise of the
 
 LCCK : AND WHAT C'AME OF IT. 207 
 
 rushing waters as they flowed into the cave, 
 heard distinctly but a moment before, became 
 inaudible as the deep bass tones of the male 
 part of the company, and the loud clear and 
 silvery voices of the women, pervaded and filled 
 the natural temple of the Divinity in which they 
 stood. The voice of Euphemia rang clear and 
 loud above them all, and seemed to be as easily 
 distinguishable amid the rest, as a velvet braid 
 on a web of wool. Lord O'Monaghan had not 
 much poetry in his nature, but what little he 
 possessed was excited within him by the scene 
 and its accessories. 
 
 " I wish we had all this to ourselves," he 
 whispered to Miss Esther, who clung close to 
 him on the ledge of rock on which they stood. 
 
 "What !" said Esther, "^^dthout Pa and Ma 
 and Eflie, and Herbert and your friend Mr. 
 Rigglesby ? Do you know," she added, " I don't 
 like Mr. Rigglesby. I don't know why. Do 
 you like him ? " 
 
 " Well," said his Lordship, " T suppose 1
 
 208 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 ought to like him — no, that 's not it. T mean 
 I ought to hate him, for I owe him money and 
 can't pay him back." 
 
 " Oh, you bad man," said Esther laughing ; 
 " but this is not a place to talk about money in, 
 is it ? " 
 
 " Oh no ; and as for that, 1 hate to talk 
 about money at all, anywhere, anywhen, anyhow. 
 Mind how you go, darling ! " he added, for by 
 this time the whole party, marshalled by the 
 mate, were leaving the cave to visit the other 
 curiosities of the island, and like a preiix 
 chevalier he guided her over the rough rocks, 
 and the slippery stones, holding her by the 
 hand as if she had been a child ; and Miss 
 Esther rather liked to be so treated and to be 
 called " darling," though at first she thought 
 he was somewhat presumptuous in using the 
 word. Had he been an Englishman she might 
 not have apj)roved of the epithet so much, but 
 it sounded natural in an Irishman. She was so 
 little displeased that she told her sister in strict
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OP IT. 209 
 
 confidence that she thought Lord O'Monaghan 
 was an awfully agreeable person." 
 
 All that is really worth seeing in Staffa is to 
 be seen in the cave and its approaches, and the 
 tramp over bog and mire at the top of the island 
 does not repay the fatigue incurred. 
 
 The Haughton ]iarty were duly informed of 
 this fact, as was the German Professor, who, 
 finding in Miss Euphemia and her brother 
 spirits more or less congenial with his own, kept 
 as close to them as possible, and returned with 
 them to the steamer. 
 
 " I think I shall take more pleasure m lona," 
 said the German Professor, " than I took in Staffa. 
 Staffa is a wonder of nature, but lona is a wonder 
 of history. When Europe, after the fall of the 
 Roman Empire, had relapsed into semi-barbarism 
 — when learning was all but quenched in the 
 fairer reoions ,of the Continent — relia-ion and 
 civilisation foutt^sp home in this remote and all 
 but inaccessible corner of the world — in the 
 small bare island of lona, scarcely three miles 
 I. 14
 
 210 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 long and one broad — and made of it a light to 
 shine through the thick darkness of the fifth 
 and sixth centuries." 
 
 "What a sweet name it has," said Euphemia^ 
 " so soft and musical. It would almost seem as 
 if it were Italian." 
 
 " No," said the Professor ; " it is Gaelic, that 
 venerable Asiatic language that was once spoken 
 all over Europe, and that has given names to 
 the mountains, the rivers, the lakes, and to the 
 oldest towns and cities of the world." 
 
 " I had no idea that Gaelic, or as it is often 
 called Erse, was so old, or so widely spread," 
 said Mr. Haugliton. 
 
 " The English, as I remarked before, are no 
 great philologists," said the Professor, "We in 
 Germany, long debarred from politics and 
 public life in which the; English take so much 
 delight, and having no other spheres of 
 mental activity open -fc us, under the despotic 
 form of government imposed upon us, until 
 very lately, by our Kings and Kaisers and
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 211 
 
 petty Grand Dukes, took to metaphysics and 
 philology. Our progress in metaphysics has 
 not been satisfactory. Metaphysics can satisf}' 
 nobody ; but as regards philology, 1 think we 
 may boast that we are the most advanced people 
 in the world." 
 
 "lorant it." said Mr. Hauo;hton, "and will 
 ask of your superior knowledge the meaning of 
 lona ? " 
 
 " The Holy Island," said the Professor ; 
 " from two Gaelic words, so called long before 
 the time of St. Columba, possibly long before 
 the commencement of the Christian era. Rome 
 itself, one of the most ancient cities in the 
 world, has a Gaelic name." 
 
 " How so ? " inquired Riggiesby. " I thought 
 it received its name from Romulus, brother of 
 Remus." 
 
 " All a delusion of ignorance. There pro- 
 bably never was either a Romulus or a Remus. 
 All these myths ought to be allowed to perish 
 out of remembrance. The first builders of 
 
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 212 LUCK ; A.ND WHAT CAME OP IT. 
 
 Rome, after they had built it, appear to have 
 simply declared it, in the Celtic language which 
 they spoke, to be ' Roma,' which means, ' very 
 good.' " 
 
 " If the explanation is not correct," said Lord 
 O'Monaghan, " it sounds as if it were. I know 
 a few words of Irish myself — a very few, the 
 more 's the pity — and ro means ' very,' and 
 maith or mai means ' good ' to this day in my 
 country." 
 
 By this time they were fast approaching the 
 little islet in the " melancholy main " on which 
 it was the intention of the Haughton party, and 
 as it soon afterwards appeared, of the German 
 Professor, to pass a few days. Leaving the 
 tourists to the tender mercies of the guide, who 
 proceeded to escort them to the ruins of the 
 Cathedral, and threading their way through 
 groups of ragged children, all intent upon selling 
 sliells, fern-roots, green pebbles, and sea-urchins, 
 and speaking no word of English but " shilling " 
 and " penny," the prices of their wares, the
 
 luck; and what came of it. 213 
 
 party made their way to the Columba Hotel, 
 formerly the manse or residence of the "minister" 
 or clergyman. Here they were soon installed, 
 and found themselves exceedingly comfortable. 
 
 Let us leave them for awhile, ere we proceed 
 to the next link in the chain of our stor3^
 
 214 
 
 CHAPTER XL 
 
 The visit to lona affected the company iii 
 very different ways. Mr. Haughton and Mr. 
 Rigglesby, as Members of Parliament, and 
 Liberals, had studied the principles of Political 
 Economy, and thought more of the social than of 
 the poetical aspects of the island. Lord O'Mona- 
 ghan, for the time being, thought more of the 
 fair Esther than of anything else, and wondered 
 whether, if he were hardy enough to propose 
 to her, the lady would accept, and what for- 
 tune her father would give her. Mrs. Haugh- 
 ton along with her eldest daughter, and Her- 
 bert, were engrossed with the romance and 
 tradition of the spot, and deep in the history
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 215 
 
 of St. Columba and the Caldees. The German 
 Professor kept aloof from all companionship, 
 explored the island alone, and evidently en- 
 joyed himself. 
 
 Mr. Haughton and Mr. Riggiesby sat together 
 over the whiskey-todd}^, which they drank partly 
 to show they were not to be dictated to by the 
 Duke of Clan Campbell or anybody else, and 
 partly because they liked it, while the rest of the 
 party amused themselves after their own fashion 
 out of doors. In this tete-a-tete some very im- 
 portant business was transacted between them — 
 business which coloured the future life of the 
 two gentlemen, and led to consequences which 
 neither of them anticipated. 
 
 Mr. Haughton was rich, but wanted to be 
 richer — a not uncommon occurrence — and Mr. 
 Riggiesby Avith all the outward appearance of 
 wealth was in reality in a state of pecuniary 
 embarrassment, and earnestly desired — a thmg 
 not at all to be wondered at — to be poor no 
 longer. Mr. Rigglesb}' had long had his eye
 
 216 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 upon Mr. Haughton, and thought he knew 
 his man, and had once before endeavoured to 
 impress him with the value of" the shares of 
 the Great British and Universal Bank, of which 
 he was the chairman. The Bank was represented 
 as paying a yearly dividend of eighteen per cent., 
 and Mr. Haughton, by the friendly influence of 
 ]\[r. Rigglesby, could have two hundred shares 
 of a hundred pounds each at par, and be accom- 
 modated, moreover, with a seat on the Board of 
 Direction. Mr. Haughton had taken time to 
 reflect on the proposal, and Anally decided to 
 accept it. 
 
 " My daughters," he thought, " will be for 
 marrying one of these days, and these Bank 
 shares would be a tidy marriage portion, and 
 bring in three thousand six hundred pounds a 
 year." 
 
 Mr. Rigglesby was in high spirits. 
 
 " I should like to buy this island," said he to 
 Haughton, " and expend a few thousand pounds 
 upon it to make it habitable. Such wretched
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 217 
 
 hovels as those of this poor people I never saw. 
 The whole place seems sinking into primitive 
 barbarism. If but a thousand pounds were 
 spent in draining it, its small agricultural capa- 
 bilities would be greatly improved. The whole 
 place swarms with midges and horse-flies, or as 
 the Scotch call them, ' cleggs.' The agriculture 
 is of the poore?;t kind. The people are ragged 
 and dirty. An air of squalor and poverty hangs 
 over them. What is the amount of the popu- 
 lation ? " 
 
 " Somewhere about three hundred, I believe.'* 
 
 " And the rental ? " 
 
 *' Somewhere about three hundred pounds." 
 
 " And how do the poor people manage to live 
 and pay it ? " 
 
 " That 's more than I can tell. I suppose 
 they get somethmg by fishing, as well as by 
 farmino- thouoh if their fishino; be not better 
 than their farming, they must fare but badly. 
 But what would you give for the island, sup- 
 posing it were in the market ? "
 
 218 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 " Well, to anyone who had the ambition to 
 be Lord of lona, and to act as a sort of Pro- 
 vidence to the poor people, iive or six thousand 
 pounds would not be too much for the fee 
 simple." 
 
 " I expect the Duke does not want to sell, 
 or can't sell, or something of that sort. I must 
 say, however, that if he does nothing more for 
 the people than prevent them from having 
 whiskey, he does not do much. And I doubt 
 whether he really prevents them from having 
 whiskey after all. It is in humjm nature to 
 hanker after the forbidden." 
 
 The Clerman Professor entered the room at 
 this period of the conversation, and being asked 
 to partake of the " toddy " he at once consented, 
 and sat down to mix a tumbler, which he did 
 secundem artem, like one familiar with the 
 manner. 
 
 " This island," he said, " is a great deal more 
 r(imarkable than I thous>-ht it was. It has a 
 double history, of which J was wholly unaware.
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 219 
 
 What do 3'ou think, now, of the man who 
 has written a guide-book to this little gem 
 of a place — that was the refuge of learning, 
 Christianity, and civilisation fourteen hundred 
 years ago — if I tell you that he does not 
 know, or seem to know, that it had a history 
 ages before St. Columba and his monks came to 
 settle upon it ? and that the guides who show 
 strangers the graves of saints and kings and 
 warriors, are as io-norant as himself ? " 
 
 " How so ? " inquired Mr. Haughton. 
 
 " I went with the other tourists to the ruins 
 of the Cathedral, to Eelig Grain, a most re- 
 markable burial-place, and admired, as all the 
 world must, the venerable cross of St. Martin, 
 the oldest and most touching memorial in the 
 island, a perfect gem of stone w^orkmanship — and 
 was never told that there was anything else of 
 interest to be visited." 
 
 » And is there ? " 
 
 " Yes ; there is. A Druidical circle in the 
 midst of an undrained morass, between the
 
 220 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 Cathedral and the sea-shore. I discovered it by 
 the merest accident. The guide-book makes no 
 mention of it. 1 wonder if the author ever 
 heard that the Druids had a seminary here, ages 
 before St. Columba was born ? I had hard work 
 to make my way through the bog ; had to 
 clamber dykes and fences, and got ankle-deep 
 in slush before I could fairly exploi'e the circle, 
 but I was rewarded for my pains at last. The 
 word Culdees, as applied to the early Christians 
 who came hither with St. Columba, has always 
 puzzled me. But now I think it must mean 
 the Chaldeans. The Druids, and in fact all the 
 original populations of these wonderful islands, 
 came from the remote East, the birth-place of 
 the human race — emigrated here, in fact, when 
 the old hive of humanity became too densely 
 peopled, and brought their tine old religion along 
 with them." 
 
 " Fine old religion do you call it ? " asked 
 Mr. Haughton, dubiously. 
 
 "Yes, fine," replied the Professor. " They wor-
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 221 
 
 shipped the Great Creator, not through images 
 of violent, passionate, lustful, immoral gods and 
 goddesses, like the vulgar Greeks and Romans, 
 but through the sun and moon and planets, 
 which they looked upon as the visible manifes- 
 tations of the Divine power and glory ! 
 
 " But they offered up human sacrifices ! " 
 
 "Did they?" said the Professor. "Perhaps 
 they did ; perhaps they did not : there is no 
 proof. But supposing it were so —which I don't 
 admit — did not the Hebrews perform human 
 sacrifices ? Did not Jephtha put his daughter 
 to death in fulfilment of his vow ? Was not 
 Abraham commanded to sacrifice his son Isaac? 
 And does not Christianity rest upon the neces- 
 sitv of a sacrifice ? 1 '11 write a book on the 
 subject. lona was Druidical and civilised a 
 thousand years before it was Christianised by 
 St. Columba, and I '11 prove it." 
 
 "But are there materials for such a book?" 
 inquired Mr. Haughton. 
 
 " Abundance of materials for those who know
 
 222 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 where to look. The religion of the ancient 
 Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Phenicians was 
 Druidical. I thought of leaving this place to- 
 morrow. I shall stay a week and perhaps a 
 month. But hark ! was not that a peal of 
 thunder ? " 
 
 It icas a peal of thunder, and seemed to shake 
 the house. Mrs. Haughton, Effie, and Herbert 
 entered the room at the moment, and announced 
 the approa.ching storm, Mrs. Haughton express- 
 ing her anxiety for Ettie, who had gone with Lord 
 O'Monaghan to climb the hill knoAvii by the name 
 of Dun 1 — the " hill of the island." A few large 
 rain drops began to patter against the window 
 panes and a dark cloud covered up ihe. evening sky. 
 Mr. Hauo'hton went to the door to look forth, 
 (juickly returning mth the information that 
 Esther and O'Monaghan were at hand, and 
 making all possible speed to reach the shelter of 
 the inn. 
 
 "They'll not be much the worse for the 
 little wetting they '11 get, and may think them-
 
 luck; and what came of it. 223 
 
 selves lucky that they were not on the hill-top 
 when the storm began." 
 
 " I think it is very fortunate that a thunder- 
 storm, such as this promises to be," said the 
 Professor, "has broken forth while we are on 
 the island — the very scene for an uproar of the 
 elements. Hark ! that was a grander peal than 
 the last ; and lo ! as your great poet Byron 
 says, ' from crag to crag leaps the live thunder ! * 
 It is glorious ! " 
 
 " Aye," said Herbert, " most glorious. I 
 would not have missed such a storm in such a 
 place for all the other scenery in Scotland. It 
 was sent on purpose for us." 
 
 " It is wicked to say so," said a thin, trembling 
 voice, which was that of Mr. Rigglesby, Avho 
 had shd from his chair to the ground in mortal 
 terror, his eyes glaruig wide, and his cheeks as 
 yellow as parchment. At this moment there 
 was another peal, immediately succeeded by a 
 vivid flash, as if the storm had burst imme- 
 diately over the house, and threatened to bring
 
 224 LUCK : AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 it in crumbling ruins over their heads. Rig- 
 giesby writhed helplessly on the floor, as if he 
 had been struck by the lightnijig and were in the 
 death agony. Mr. Haughton and Herbert sprang 
 to his aid, and the former endeavoured to pour 
 down his throat a glass of the raAv whiskey that 
 stood conveniently upon the table ; while Mrs. 
 Haughton, forgetting for the moment her anxiety 
 for her absent daughter, undid the fainting man's 
 necktie, and chafed his cold hands between her 
 own. It was soon apparent that no lightning 
 stroke had wrought the mischief, and that Mr. 
 Rigglesby's condition was simply caused by the 
 extremity of terror. Reviving a little, and 
 seeing the friendly faces around him, he asked 
 feebly for brandy. There l)eing- no brandy, 
 another dose of whiskey was substituted with good 
 effect. After a minute or two, (hiring wliich 
 Miss Esther and Lord O'Monaghan entered the 
 room, oblivious of their own little wetting in 
 the interest excited by the scene indoors, Mr. 
 Jxigglesby so far recovered liimself as to rise with
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 225 
 
 assistance from the ground, and seat himself on 
 the chair from which he had fallen. 
 
 "Forgive me," he said, "for my weakness. 
 It is constitutional with me. I cannot tell you 
 the horror I feel during a storm. The roar of 
 the thunder seems to curdle my blood. The 
 blue flash of the lightning seems to paralyse the 
 action of my heart. I am better now. Hark ! 
 there it is again. May Heaven forgive me all 
 my sins and transgressions ! " 
 
 And as the thunder once more sounded, but 
 less loudly than before, and the lightning flash 
 lit up the room with evanescent splendour, he 
 grasped the table tightly to prevent himself fi'om 
 falling a second time. 
 
 "Take another glass of whisky," said Lord 
 O'Monaghan, "and go to bed ! I have seenhhu 
 like this once before," he added, as he poured 
 out the spirit and put the glass in his hand. 
 *' The storm is passmg over. Let me lead 
 you." 
 
 He led Rigglesby upstairs ; and Rigglesby, 
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 226 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 declining any further assistance, went to bed as 
 advised. 
 
 Meanwhile, the rain having ceased, the Ger- 
 man Professor and Herbert Hauohton, accom- 
 panied by Euphemia, went outside to watch the 
 last expiring beauties of the storm, as an occa- 
 sional flash lit up the red rocks of the Ross of 
 Mull, immediately in the foreground, and the 
 dark mass of the Mull mountains in the dis- 
 tance. 
 
 " And this," said Euphemia, quoting Byron 
 to the great admiration of the Professor, 
 
 " ' Is in the night ! Most glorious night, 
 Thou wert not sent for shimber ! Let me be 
 A sharer in thy fierce and far delight, 
 A portion of the tempest and of thee ! ' " 
 
 " I never saw anything grander! " said 
 Herbert, " and Byron's lines are as grand as the 
 storm itself. Shall we ever have another Byron, 
 I wonder ? How tall, erect, and godlike he 
 stands, compared with the little fashionable 
 versifiers of our day, who mince the English
 
 luck; and what game op it. 227 
 
 language, with delicate little phrases, and think 
 that because they write verse they write poetry." 
 
 "A common mistake," said the Professor. 
 " How T envy England the possession of Shak- 
 speare and Byron. My country has no writer 
 that can cornpare with either of them, and I'm 
 afraid it never will. We cannot even match 
 Robert Burns, whose Tarn O'Shanter rivals Shak- 
 speare, and stands unsurpassed for its beautiful 
 blending of the grand, the tender, the humorous, 
 the grotesque, the awful, and the horrible, per- 
 vaded by a strong under-running current of wit 
 and common sense. But look ! how this flash 
 has lighted up air and earth and sea ! Beautiful 
 — exceedingly ! " 
 
 "It is very fine," said Herbert. " It seems 
 to me," he added, after a pause, " that all great, 
 pure, and noble natures revel in the magnificence 
 and sublimity of a thunderstorm, and that there 
 must be something not only physically but 
 morally and intellectually wrong in a man or 
 woman who gives way to such abject and cowardly 
 
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 228 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 terror as that just exhibited by Mr. Kigglesby. 
 Don't you think so, Effie ? " 
 
 " I may be wrong," she replied, " I hope I 
 am, but there is something about Mr. Rigglesby 
 that impresses me unfavourably. I can't say 
 what it is. I feel towards him, without knowing 
 why, what I suppose I should feel towards a 
 snake. I could not help thinking, as I saw him 
 on the floor, of the old superstition that thunder 
 was the voice of God speaking to the wicked, 
 and that this was a wicked man who knew 
 Avhat was said to him." 
 
 " Our father seems to believe in him, and to 
 like him," said Herbert, " and he is a shrewd 
 man. But I agree with you to some extent, 
 und think of the old lines ' 1 do not like ther, 
 Doctor Fell,' but you know the rest. I shall 
 be glad when we and he part company." 
 
 " Yes," said the German Professor, as if solilo- 
 (juising, " there are such things as instinctive 
 dislikes, or prejudices, and if they come strongly 
 and unaccountably upon one they ought not
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 229 
 
 to be lightly dismissed. They may be warnings ; 
 for after all, instinct is higher than reason. 
 Reason may go wrong ; instinct never does. 
 And now," he added, " the storm having passed 
 over, I will go in and finish my tod-dee " (so he 
 pronounced it) " with Mr. Haughton." 
 
 That evening, before retiring to rest, Miss 
 Esther informed her mother that Lord O'Mona- 
 ghan had proposed to her, "and in such a dread- 
 fully funny place," she said, " in Fingal's cave, 
 in Staffa, on a ledge of rock where there was 
 scarcely room to stand. Wasn't he a goose?" 
 
 " Weel, he may have been," replied her 
 mother. " But what did you say ?" 
 
 "I referred him to Pa, and to you," said 
 Miss Esther; " what more could I do ? " 
 
 " Weel," said Mrs. Haughton, " he 's young 
 and no bad looking, and a Lord, and your father 
 and I Avill just talk it over, ye ken. But — I 
 suppose we are to understand that you dhma 
 object?" 
 
 "I think I don't object too awfully much.
 
 230 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 Indeed, I think he 's awfully nice ; and I hope 
 he 's rich enough to keep a yacht. But he 's only 
 an Irish Lord, you know, not a Peer. Wouldn't 
 it be dreadfully jolly to be a Peeress ?" 
 
 " I dinna ken about jolly," said Mrs. Haugh- 
 ton, " but it 's a good thing for a woman to have 
 a good husband, whether he 's a Peer or a 
 souter." 
 
 '' A souter, and what 's a souter ? " 
 
 " A cobbler they ca' him in England," replied 
 her mother. 
 
 " Oh my ! " said Miss Esther, " who 'd marry 
 a cobbler ? " 
 
 " Many a honest lass might but ye 're no 
 come to that, and if Lord O'Monaghan likes you, 
 and you like Lord O'Monaghan, and if he 's a 
 man of good character, and can keep you like 
 a leddy, I'se no mak muckle objection to the 
 bargain. But your father kens best, and we '11 
 just talk it over thegither." 
 
 Lord O'Monaghan felt sure of the daughter, 
 and was not afraid of the mother. He did not,
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 231 
 
 however, feel quite sure of the father, and it was 
 necessary that he should be pleased, or what 
 was to be done about the money?
 
 232 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 The brief holiday of the Haughtons has come 
 and gone. The family are back again m Swin- 
 ston, and have resumed the usual occupations. 
 Mr. Haughton, in consequence of his new po- 
 sition as a Member of Parliament, has been 
 made a justice of the peace, and has found that 
 in England increase of dignity means increase 
 of work. Mr. and Mrs. Haughton, in family 
 council assembled, have decided to raise no ob- 
 jection to the match between their daughter 
 Ettie and Lord O'Monaghan, but knowing the 
 character of the young lady, are not without 
 misgivings that she has been somewhat hasty in
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 283 
 
 her acceptance of one of whom she knows so 
 little. Mr. Haughton's inqiuries into the ante- 
 cedents of his Lordship have elicited much that 
 speaks w^ell for him, and nothing to his dis- 
 credit — except a chronic indebtedness, the 
 result rather of carelessness than of dishonesty. 
 Upon this point the prudent father inclines to 
 the opinion that it will be well to settle upon the 
 lady herself what money he can afford to give 
 her, though he is not quite sure upon reflection 
 that such a settlement has not a tendency to 
 lower the husband in the estimation of the wife, 
 and thereby lessen or imperil his legitimate 
 authority in his own household. However, he 
 decides that there is no particular huny, until 
 he learns the true position of Lord O'Mona- 
 ghan's affairs, which will not be, perhaps, until 
 he goes to town in February to attend to his 
 Parliamentary duties. 
 
 Lord O'Monaghan is of opinion " that happy 
 is the wooino- that 's not too long^ a-doins:," but 
 as Ettie does not seem over anxious on the
 
 234 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 subject, he curbs as well as he can his own hn- 
 patience. It must be added that when his Lord- 
 ship examines his 0"wn conscience, he finds that 
 if it were not for the money involved there 
 would be no great desire on his part to hurry 
 on the business any faster than the lady and 
 her friends thought requisite. It will thus be 
 seen that he was not a particularly ardent lover, 
 and not at all a romantic one. " But she 's a 
 handsome girl," thought his Lordship, " a stylish 
 girl ; and if I -were a rich man, bedad ! I don't 
 think I should mind if I married her without a 
 penny!" And in this way he tried to lull to 
 sleep the wakeful conscience that told him he 
 was no true lover at heart, but a mercenary 
 fortune-hunter. 
 
 His friend Rigglesby has gone to Kilmacnoise, 
 to look after his affairs and to keep his consti- 
 tuents in ffood humour. 
 
 Mr. Herbert Haughton has returned to town, 
 and has accepted an invitation from the German 
 Professor, Dr. Emilius Von Straubenfeldt, to
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT GAME OF IT. 235 
 
 visit huu at Heidelberg if he should ever find 
 himself in that seat of learning. 
 
 Miss Euphemia is sometimes seen ui Swins- 
 ton, along with her mother, both ladies engaged 
 in the old-fashioned business of marketing for 
 the household, one which seems to find little 
 favour wnth the ladies, whether young or old, of 
 the present era. On such occasions it sometimes 
 happens that she meets a handsome young man, 
 Avho takes off his hat to her and passes on, receiv- 
 ing in acknowledgment of his courtesy a sweet 
 thouo'h someAvhat sad smile, which he thinks the 
 nearest approach to angelic loveliness ever ex- 
 hibited in the world. Oscar Lebrun is in love, 
 and has never admitted the secret save to his 
 own heart, and even yet is not quite convinced 
 that such is the real, true, irreversible, and 
 eternal fact. Yet though he has never breathed 
 a word of this to anybody, or scarcely dared 
 to think that the day would ever come which 
 would find him possessed of courage enough to 
 tell it to the person whom he most wislied to
 
 236 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 know it, and who at the same time he most 
 feared to let it be known to, lest his dreamy, 
 golden, glowing, gorgeous hopes should be 
 dissipated like the clouds of sunset into thin and 
 colourless mist and vapour of nonentity — she 
 suspects his secret — in fact, knows it — and is not 
 offended by it. 'On the contrary she is flattered, 
 she is pleased, she is gratified, and wonders 
 whether he will ever remain the same shy yet 
 bold, modest but yet confident admirer, who treats 
 her in these rare and chance encounters as if 
 she were the Queen and Empress of the world, 
 and he a devoted slave who would cheerfully go 
 to the death in her cause, if he could but be 
 rewarded with a smile, a look, or a word of 
 recognition. 
 
 It is Christmas time, or near upon it, and 
 Sir Lancelot and Lady Wyld have notified their 
 intention to visit their relations the Hausfhtons 
 at Mill Haughton for two or three days during 
 the Christmas week, and to bring their son and 
 lieir along with them. The visit is one of di-
 
 luck; and what came op it. 237 
 
 plomacy, as well as of courtesy and relationship. 
 The Wylds know nothing as yet of the little 
 affair between Miss Esther and Lord O'Mona- 
 ghan, and think that possibly a strengthening of 
 the social intercourse between the families might 
 be of good effect upon the mind and character 
 of young Lancelot, and drive out of his silly 
 imagination the charms of Patty Tidy, by com- 
 panionship with the superior charms of his 
 cousins Euphemia and Esther. The young man 
 has been duly tutored by his mother, and the 
 propriety of a match with one or other of the 
 ladies, if he should be fortunate enough to im- 
 press either of them favourably, has been ex- 
 hibited to him from every point of view, with a 
 persistent iteration that for many weeks has 
 rendered his life a burden and a weariness. He 
 would fain escape the infliction of a visit to Mill 
 Haughton, which he has made up his mind shall 
 result in nothing as far as he is concerned ; but 
 as he does not care to enter into any argument 
 on the subje3t with his father or mother — and
 
 238 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 more especially with his father — he says nothing. 
 But he thinks the more. The vision of sweet 
 Patty Tidy, so pretty in her simulated anger or 
 indifference, so fills his imagination and his 
 heart, that there is no room in either to admit 
 the possibility of even so much as a liking for 
 any other woman. 
 
 " They shan't, and they can't, compel me to 
 marry any woman I don't care for. I don't care 
 for either of my cousins. And I hope neither 
 of them cares, or ever will care for me. People 
 ought to make their own marriages. I shall ; 
 and if I can't marry Patty, I won't marry at 
 all. I hope my cousins will hate me, or what 
 Avould be better still, I hope they are both en- 
 gaged. They may be, although my mother may 
 know nothing about it. I should like that way 
 of settling the matter, for then the Governor 
 couldn't grumble at me, and my mother would 
 see that it wasn't my fault. By Jove ! I hope 
 their hearts are no longer their own ! If I were 
 only sure, pop sure, that they would refuse me
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 239 
 
 for that or uny other reason, I would propose to 
 them both m succession. Hang me it" I wouldn't ! 
 But to propose and be accepted would be awk- 
 ward, by Jove ! But it 's of no use bothering 
 about it. I have bothered myself enough al- 
 ready. I 'm bound to go to Mill Haughton, any 
 way. I can't get out of that. I wonder if either 
 of the girls suspects the precious errand I am 
 made to go upon ? I hope they do, for they '11 
 be sure to dislike me for it. I would, if I were 
 a woman, object to any fellow who was shot off 
 at me like an arrow at a target. Oh, Patty ! 
 Patty ! if you had not been such a bewitching 
 little minx, I might have pleased Sir Lancelot 
 and my mother too, married a cousin, had my 
 debts paid, and Uved like a dull dog all the rest 
 of my life." 
 
 It was thus Lancelot soliloquized, a cigar in 
 his mouth, and his hands in his pockets, as he 
 sauntered from the stable to the garden, and 
 from the garden back to the stable, on the morn- 
 ing which had been fixed for the departure for
 
 240 LUCE ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 Mill Hauohtoii. His reflections oave him com- 
 fort. It is always a i^elief to make up one's mind 
 and to feel like a combatant who is determined 
 to win. Doubts are always disagreeable, and it 
 is better to know and to face the worst than to 
 know nothing, decide nothing, and face a phan- 
 tom, more terrible than a reality. 
 
 Before Sir Lancelot and Lady VVyld had 
 been half an hour at Mill Haughton they were 
 informed of the state of Ettie's affairs oy the 
 mother of that young lady; and before the party 
 assembled for dinner Lady Wyld found an oppor- 
 tunity of making her son acquainted with the 
 fact that one of his cousins was not likely to 
 be had, and that it was well for him that the 
 handsomer of the two was still free and un- 
 trammelled. Lancelot pretended to be of opinion 
 that EfiBe was not the handsomer of the two, 
 and hinted that if he had had any choice in 
 the matter he would have given the preference to 
 the one with the chignon. This he said with the 
 treacherous purpose of lettuig his mother under-
 
 LUOF{ ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 241 
 
 stand that if nothing came of her plans, things 
 might liave turned out differently if that pro- 
 voking Ettie had been available. This, how- 
 ever, was a somewhat danuerous o-ame for the 
 young gentleman to play, and being aware of 
 the fact he took care not to overdo his pro- 
 testations, locking himself up meanwhile in the 
 armour of a real indifference towards both of 
 the young ladies. 
 
 Mrs. Haughton, as the reader knows, was a 
 plain-spoken woman, about whom there was no 
 guile, and Euphemia was her favourite child. 
 Long before the Wyld party arrived she had 
 told her daughter frankly the reason why they 
 were honoured with the visit, and the notion 
 that possessed the minds of Sir Lancelot and 
 Lady Wyld, that a match between her and their 
 son Lancelot would be advisable and prudent. 
 
 " Not that I want to guide you, Etfie ; you 
 maun just judge for yoursel'. He 's heir to a 
 baronetcy, ye ken, and that 's something, and 
 being an only son he will inherit a' the gear." 
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 242 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 " I don't care for the baronetcy," said Effie; 
 "and I don't care for his money. I hope the 
 young gentleman won't hke me, for I know I 
 shan't like him. He can't have any proper spirit 
 to be guided in this way. And mamma ! did 
 not you choose for yourself ?" 
 
 " 'Deed, an' I did," said Mrs. Haughton ; 
 "and a better choice no lassie ever made. Mind 
 Effie, I 'm only telling you tlie state of the case. 
 I'm no guiding you or advising you.'' 
 
 " And what says papa ab(jut it ? " 
 
 " Weel, he does not think the young man 
 likely to take your fancy even if you should take 
 his." 
 
 " Papa is always right, and I must say, from 
 the little I have seen of Mr. Wyld, that I never 
 knew a (gentleman to look and talk so like a 
 groom. I only hope if he is going to propose 
 to me that he will do it soon, and I '11 put 
 him out of suspense by such an emphatic No, 
 as Avill convince him that I am in earnest." 
 
 " Weel, Etiie, ye '11 do right if ye have so
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME 01' 11'. 243 
 
 decided. Ye 're no the kind o' lass that 's 
 bound to take the tirst ofter. And it 's no that 
 sure that Mr. Wyld will make you an offer at 
 all. And to tell you the truth, my wee lammie," 
 (that was the most endearino- expression that Mrs. 
 Haughton ever used, and which she reserved 
 exclusively for her eldest daughter) " it '11 be a 
 sair day for me, the day that ye 're married, and 
 my bonnie birdie flies awa' to a new nest. 
 But it 's nature, and I '11 no complain. Onl}', 
 ye see, I 'm in no hurry." 
 
 " Nor I, my sweet mother," said Effie, throw- 
 ing her arms around her neck ; "and at all events 
 there 's no danger that the nest of Mr. Lancelot 
 Wyld will ever be my nest." 
 
 At the dinner, the day of the arrival, it fell 
 to the lot of Mr. Lancelot to escort Miss 
 Enphemia from the drawing-room to the dining- 
 room, during which short period, and the whole 
 time of dinner, the thoughts of the young- 
 people, if each could have known what was 
 passing in the mind of the other, would speedily 
 
 16 *
 
 244 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 have brouoht them to a comfortable imcler- 
 standino-. There was a certain straio;htforward- 
 ness about Lancelot, which was the best part 
 of his character ; but he was in reality so over- 
 awed by the majestic and serious beauty of his 
 cousin, that he would have no more thought of 
 proposing to her, than to a Princess of the Blood 
 Royal. 
 
 " Too grand for me by half," he thought. 
 "T feel like a nobody beside her. But I '11 tell 
 her my mind, though, tlie very first opportunity 
 I can find or make — see if I don't. I 'm not 
 going to be played by other people as if I were 
 a pawn on a chess-board. This pawn will speak 
 out. And it will move itself, too, instead of being 
 moved by others — see if it won't, by Jove ! " 
 
 Lancelot had not long to wait for his oppor- 
 tunity, for, like a skilful general, he made it, 
 and when made, he profited by it. Finding 
 himself left alone with his cousin, as it seemed 
 by accident, but as he suspected by design, he 
 went boldly to the point.
 
 l.UCK; AND WHAT GAME OF IT. 245 
 
 " Cousin Euphemia," he said, " I am not 
 clever, but I don't think I am very bad, nor very 
 foohsh when 1 once take hold of an idea. If 
 }'ou and I were to be married we should be 
 miserable. In the first place, I am not good 
 enough for you. In the second place, I love 
 somebody else, and intend to go on loving her 
 as long as there 's life in my body." 
 
 " Cousin Lancelot," said Euphemia, while a 
 bright smile suffused her countenance, and her 
 eyes sparkled with unconcealed pleasure, "you 
 and I shall be A\arm friends for ever after this. 
 Give me your hand." 
 
 He gave it. 
 
 " You have reUeved me from a great embar- 
 rassment by your plain speaking, and I thank 
 )^ou for it. I hope the love you have bestowed, 
 no doubt Avorthily, is worthily returned, and that 
 you will be happy with her, whoever she is." 
 
 "It's Patty Tidy," said Lancelot, "the 
 prettiest girl in the shire ; but my father looks 
 down on her because her lather i& a larrier.
 
 246 luck; and avjiat camk of it. 
 
 She can't help tliat, yon know. And where 's the 
 harm in being a farrier ? They 're deuced useful 
 fellows; and how, I should like to know, could the 
 horses ever get on without them ? But as I 
 like to do things regular, I hereby make you an 
 offer of my hand, if you will accept it without 
 mv heai't. 1 must be able to tell the Governor 
 that you have refused me, point blank, and 
 won't have anything to do with me, or I shall 
 lead such a life of it, as I don't like to think of." 
 
 luiphemia laughed outright. 
 
 " 1 won't accept your hand. Sir, even if you 
 were to give your heart idong with it. My 
 refusal is positive and final." 
 
 " Thank you," he rejilied, " and my heart 's in 
 tlie thanks, anyhow. By Jove, ] 'm the happiest 
 fellow alive. But you '11 stick to it, won't you ? " 
 
 " Through thick and thin," replied his cousin, 
 still lauirliino:. 
 
 " And is } our heart as hopelessly gone as 
 mine?" said Lancelot ; ''but liaiig it, T beg par- 
 don, I have no right to ask, and 1 ho[)e you'll
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME 01' IT. 247 
 
 consider that I didn't ask. Do you forgive 
 me?" 
 
 "Oh 3^es," said Euphemia; "I would have 
 let you into my conhdence as freely as you have 
 let me into yours, but I know nothing about my 
 heart as yet, and can't say Avhether it is gone 
 or not. So you see that I 'm frank with you, 
 having nothing either to tell or to reveal, except 
 that I am relieved of a weight of anxiety, 
 by knowing that you and I are free to be good 
 strangers, or good friends, just as we please. 
 So let us be good friends, nor more nor less. 
 We don't want to be anything else." 
 
 " Exactly," said Lancelot. " You're a jolly 
 good girl, by Jove ! and if you'll excuse me, I '11 
 go outside and have a smoke." 
 
 Next morning the refusal of Lancelot by 
 Miss Euphemia was known to all the family 
 circle. Sir Lancelot bore the result with 
 equanimity, in which he was equalled if not 
 excelled l)y Lady Wjdd. Mr. Haughton and 
 his wife were rather glad than otherwise.
 
 248 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 And Enphemia ? She had a dream in her 
 heart, a dream of Oscar Lebruu, a dream of joy, 
 yet of sadness, a dream of freedom, yet of bond- 
 age, a dream of love unspoken, but of love none 
 the less real because it had never been divulged.
 
 249 
 
 CHAPTEli XIII. 
 
 The fast approaching departure ol" Mr. Haugh- 
 ton and his family, to pass the season in London, 
 as Mr. Haughton's parliamentary duties com- 
 pelled, was a source of many melancholy reflec- 
 tions to two persons in Swinston, Mr. Lebrun 
 and the Rev. Hope Smithers. 
 
 " If Euphemia Haughton," thought Mr. 
 Lebrun, •' were to pass out of my little horizon 
 into the larger world of London life and society, 
 shall I ever see her agam, or if 1 do, shall I 
 see her the wife, or the betrothed, of some of 
 the magnates of the great world of fashion or of 
 ])olitics ?" This was a too probable consumma- 
 tion. The more he thought about it, the more
 
 250 luck; and what came of it. 
 
 unhappy he felt, until by dint of constant brood- 
 . ing on the subject, he wrought himself into a 
 state of excitement, which he sometimes hoped 
 and sometimes feared would force him into a 
 declaration of the passion that was consuming 
 him, a declaration whose results would be either 
 the happiness or misery of his life. 
 
 The Rev. Hope Smithers, curate of St. 
 Swithin's, was a young man of twenty-three, 
 whom all the ladies of the parish, Miss Euphe- 
 mia Haughton excepted, thought exceedingly 
 handsome. It must be admitted that in this 
 respect the curate agreed with the ladies, in fact 
 more than agreed, a circumstance Avhich put its 
 impress upon his eyes, upon his lips, upon the tip 
 of his nose, upon his whole face, and generally 
 upon his whole behaviour, and made him a shade 
 less handsome than he might otherwise have 
 been. The Rev. Hope Smithers, plump, florid, 
 and five feet ten, with beautiful white teeth and 
 luxuriant liair, and having the example of the 
 Rev. Sir Lancelot Wyld before his eyes, and
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT GAME OF IT. 251 
 
 being in a position very similar to that in which 
 that clerical Baronet had found himself" before 
 his marriage to a lady possessed of thii'ty thousand 
 pounds, bethono'ht himself that Miss Euphemia 
 Haughton would be an excellent match for one 
 who drew no more than sixty pounds a year 
 from his curacy, and was only enabled to live 
 and dress like a gentleman on a sujjplementary 
 allowance from his father. 
 
 If rumour spoke the truth, Mr. Haughton was 
 likely to settle £1,500 a year on each of his 
 daughters, so that, as the Curate said, either 
 would be an excellent " catch." It woidd not 
 have greatly, if at all, signified to Mr. Smithers 
 which of the two had fallen to his lot, thouirh if 
 he had a shadow of preference, it ^vas for Miss 
 Euphemia. 
 
 As soon as the news was spread abroad, and 
 news runs rapidly in small towns, that Lord 
 O'Monaghan had proposed for Ettie. the shadowy 
 preference hardened into consistency ; and from 
 that time forward it became a conviction in his
 
 252 luck; and what came ok' it. 
 
 mind, notwithstanding the cool indifference which 
 the lady exhibited towards him, that he had but to 
 ask for her hand in order to obtain it. 
 
 Oscar Lebrun, on the contrary, could lay no 
 such balm to his perturbed bosom, lie had his 
 hopes, or he could not have been in love half 
 so deeply, but his fears overbalanced them ; 
 and he so greatly dreaded a refusal that might 
 put a final extinguisher on his happy dreams, 
 that he preferred doubt and uncertainty, with 
 a sweet modicum of hope to leaven all, to risking 
 a decision that possibly might reward him for all 
 the anxieties and sorrows of hope deferred, but 
 that far more probably might di'ive him to 
 despair. 
 
 The Rev. Hope Smithers, with the courage 
 of intense conceit and a superbly favourable 
 opinion of himself, found means and opportu- 
 nity to make the magnanimous offer (so he 
 thought it) of his hand and liea,rt to the beau- 
 tiful Euphemia. lie received an answer which 
 he declared in strict conlidence to his beloved
 
 LUOK ; AND WHAT CAMK OF IT. 258 
 
 self to be partly rude an cl wholly final. He had 
 made a mistake, fJutt was evident ; and was 
 abject enough to ask her as a particular favour 
 that she would never divulge to anyone what 
 had happened between them. She contemptu- 
 ously promised to do as he required, and scarcely 
 mentioned even to her mother that the reverend 
 gentleman had indulged himself in the vain de- 
 lusion that he could win her affection. 
 
 " He is a very pretty man," she thought to 
 herself ; " a great deal too pretty for a man, and 
 almost pretty enough to be a woman. 1 don't 
 like pretty men, and this pretty man spends 
 more time at the lookino'-olass than I do ! Men 
 of this sort bestow so much fond love upon 
 themselves that they have none left for any- 
 body else. If I cannot be Avon for myself, and 
 not for papa's money, I will not be won at all." 
 
 Miss Eu])hemia was right ; and went on to 
 contrast him with one who had never yet spoken 
 to her, who ardently, who enthusiastically, 
 almost painfully, longed to speak to her, and tell
 
 254 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 her the burn mo; secret of his heart ; one whom 
 she ahnost fancied she could be angry with be- 
 cause he would not and did not take courage 
 to declare himself. But in Oscar Lebrun's case 
 the supposed money was not the attraction, but 
 the bar and the hindrance. Had Miss Haugh- 
 ton been a poor girl, or moved hi a station in- 
 ferior to or on an equality with his own, he 
 would Ion"" ao-o have found a tono'ue to si^eak 
 and eloquence to support his suit ; but he 
 was Xkx^ most unmercenary of men, and feared 
 even to be suspected of what he considered 
 the meanness of inuratiatino- himself into the 
 affections of a ricli man's daughter — not for 
 the sake of the daughter, but for the sake of 
 the cash. 
 
 " Ah," he said to himself, " if Mr. Haughton 
 were bankru|)t to-moirow, to-morrow I would 
 unburthen my soul. If his daughter were with- 
 out a sixpence in the world, it should be my jo)-, 
 my pride, to offer her the siq)|)ort of my right 
 arm, my energy, m)- intelligence, and shield her,
 
 LUCK ; AND WHAT (l\ME OF IT. 255 
 
 if she would share my fortunes, from all the 
 shocks and buffets of the world." 
 
 Thus he dreamed, thus he thought, thus he 
 reasoned, but never could muster up courage 
 to ssij as much, or half as much, or anything at 
 all to the one most interested. 
 
 At last, however, an accidental circumstance 
 compelled him to speak out. It was towards the 
 close of the month of January 1870, when the 
 Haughton family were packing up their effects to 
 proceed to London for the meeting of Parliament 
 in February, when Mr. Oscar Lebrun received 
 a missive from Paris which he had long expected, 
 and which was destined to influence the whole 
 course of his future life — a summons from his 
 friends Messieurs Casimir Desmoulins, and Anas- 
 tase Adolphe, to ])roceed immediately to Paris, 
 on the urgent business of the " Marianne." To 
 receive this summons was to obey it. There 
 was no room for deliberation had he ^\^shed • to 
 deliberate. His sole desire was, before leaving 
 England, to seek an interview with l']uj)hemia
 
 256 LTTGK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 Haiighton, aiid to learn from her lips whether 
 hope was allowed him. If he mio;ht hope he 
 would return to England and claim its fulfil- 
 ment at her hands ; if there were no hope, he 
 would remain in France to live and die as Fate 
 mio;ht determine. The first thino: he had to do 
 was to ask Mr. Haugh ton's permission to absent 
 himself from his employment for a month, that lie 
 might proceed to Paris on pressing and im- 
 portant business — business, he said, that pos- 
 sibly might prevent his return. 
 
 Mr. Haus:hton was anxious to know the 
 reason of this sudden determination, nnd 
 whether it were caused by any dissatisfaction 
 with his employer, or his wages, or with his 
 fellow-workmen, but was assured tliat on none 
 of these ])oints had he the slightest reason for 
 complaint, but on the contrary every reason to 
 be satisfied. He exjiressed his very great sor- 
 row — which he certainly felt — at leaving Eng- 
 Lnid, l)ut witliout lotting Mr. Haughton into 
 the true secret of liis departure — simply ex-
 
 LUCK : AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 257 
 
 plained that urgent circumstances, personal to 
 himself, compelled him, much agaiast his will, 
 but in pursuance of an imperative sense of 
 duty, to go to Paris. 
 
 Mr. Haughton was satisfied ; and, on the 
 supposition that family affairs deprived him of 
 the services of the most esteemed and ablest of 
 his workpeople, shook him cordially by the hand 
 for the first time in his life, wished him success 
 in all his undertakings, and promised to keep 
 his place open for him for the month specified. 
 Mr. Haughton did not think the matter of 
 sufficient importance to mention to his 
 wife and daughters, but the news spread 
 rapidly through the workshops, and from the 
 workshops to the town, Avhence in due course it 
 reached the ears of Mrs. and Miss Haughton. 
 Effie's face grew pale when she heard it ; but as 
 she had no confidant, not even her mother (how 
 could she have in a matter of love unspoken 
 on both sides, and that on one side might not 
 be love at all ? ), she had to keep her sorrow to 
 I. 17
 
 258 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 herself, and brood over it in solitude. Her medi- 
 tations that day were conflicting and harassing. 
 
 " Why," she said to herself, " should this 
 man's movements distress me ? He has not even 
 spoken to me. What am I to him, or he to me ? 
 That I have taken his fancy and smitten his 
 imagination is likely enough, I see it in his face, 
 but that is a circumstance which does not con- 
 cern me. A hundred men might have the same 
 feelings, the Rev. Hope Smithers for example, 
 and Mr. Barnard Strutt, junior, who is always 
 so polite and attentive, and is such a great 
 favourite with papa. Ah, but then, this man is 
 so different — so handsome, so intelligent, so 
 modest, such a thorough gentlemen, though only 
 a mechanic. But then papa is himself a mechanic, 
 or one who lives by the labour of mechanics, 
 which is the same thing. And Oscar Lebrun, 
 so careful and well behaved as he is, is sure to 
 rise in the world, and to become an employer 
 of labour, like papa. Yes, yes, all this is very 
 true ; but again, what is it to me ? Why will
 
 luck; and what came of it. 259 
 
 he not speak ? Is he afraid of me ? I am sure 
 there is no occasion for fear. And yet somehow 
 I Hke him all the better for it. He is not one 
 of your vain conceited people, like Mr. Smithers, 
 whose only love is self-love, nor one of those 
 forward presuming young men who think that 
 any woman ought to be proud to be so much as 
 looked at by them. No, he is very different. 
 Ah me, ah me ! I should like to know what he 
 is going away for." 
 
 Happy would Mr. Oscar Lebrun have been if 
 he had known, or could have suspected the 
 thoughts that were passing through Miss 
 Haughton's mind. The flood-gates of his 
 eloquence would have been opened, and he 
 would have poured out his admiration and 
 adoration with a vehemence all the o^reater for 
 his long and self-inforced silence. One thing 
 was clear to him, he would not leave England 
 without seeing or writing to her. 
 
 " Is there," he said to himself, " such a 
 thing as chance? and if there be, why should
 
 260 luck; and what came op it. 
 
 not chance befriend me, and place her in my 
 way, so that I may speak to her, without 
 appearing to have sought the opportunity, with- 
 out thrusting myself into her pi'esence, and 
 without solicitino; that which I most desire, ten 
 minutes of her company alone, in order that 
 my pent up thoughts may express themselves 
 to her, Avho is the mistress of them alj ! " 
 
 It was the morning but one prior to his 
 departure from Swinston when the coveted 
 chance presented itself He had settled all his 
 aiFairs, had finally bidden adieu to his comrades, 
 and was walking in melancholy mood along the 
 banks of the muddy river that runs through 
 S^vinston down into the great Lincolnshire Wash, 
 but that when the tide is flowing runs up from 
 the sea into the Fens, mth a majestic swell and 
 current of clear water, when he saw the figure 
 of a woman advancing seaward like himself, 
 and all alone. He saw at the first glance that 
 it was Miss Haughton, and quickened his pace 
 so as to walk faster than she did, but not so
 
 lock; and what came of it. 261 
 
 fast as to appear as if he were anxious to 
 overtake her. But he might have saved him- 
 self the exertion, for, turning suddenly round, 
 and retracing her steps towards home, Miss 
 Haughton met him face to face, blushed deeply, 
 and hesitated, or appeared to hesitate, whether 
 she should stand still or continue her walk. 
 Oscar Lebrun saw his chance, the great chance 
 that he had prayed for, longed for, dreamed of, 
 supplicated, yearned for ; and took advantag^e of 
 it. He raised his hat and held it in his hand as 
 he spoke. 
 
 " Madame," he said, " I am leaving Swinston, 
 perhaps for ever ; and though it may be pre- 
 sumptuous in me to say so, I bless the happy 
 fortune that has enabled me to say to you this 
 day with what sorrow I go." 
 
 " Then why go," she replied in a sweet low 
 voice that seemed to him like a remembered 
 melody ; " were you not happy here ? " 
 
 " I was most happy, but never so happy as I 
 am to-day, when I dare to tell you, even should
 
 262 LUCK ; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 I die for my temerity, that I, a workman in 
 your father's employ, but a gentleman neverthe- 
 less, have looked so high as to admire you above 
 all women that I ever saw, or hope to see." 
 
 " Stay," she said, " I must not listen ; " and 
 she turned round and walked seaward again, 
 as if inviting further speech, although seeming 
 to deprecate it. 
 
 " Forgive me, if I have offended ; ray heart 
 was full, and I could not choose but speak." 
 
 " You have not offended me, Mr. Lebrun," 
 she said ; " put on your hat, and allow me to 
 take so much interest in your future welfare 
 as to ask whether you are going to France, 
 which I understand is your native country, to 
 better your fortunes ? " 
 
 " I am more than half an Englishman," he 
 replied, "and I am proud to belong even partially 
 to the country that gave you birth." 
 
 " But are you going to better yourself in 
 France ? " again enquired the young lady. 
 
 " No," he replied, *' T am going to Paris on
 
 luck; and what came op it. 2CtS 
 
 public affairs which will scarcely benefit me, but 
 which if they do will only benefit me as one 
 of millions. I think that you would sympathise 
 with my cause, if you knew it." 
 
 " And mai/ I know it ? " 
 
 " You may, all the world may know it, all 
 the world shall know it. It is the cause of 
 labour, the cause of the poor man condemned 
 to toil that he may live, but unable to gain the 
 proper means of living, let him toil as hard, and 
 as long, and as patiently as he will — the cause 
 of the manv against the few, the cause of the 
 underfed against the overfed, the cause of the 
 working bees against the drones of the hive, 
 the cause of the women and the children, and 
 of the great majority of the human race against 
 the receivers of interest and the monopolisers 
 of the earth, and that which is under the earth ; 
 the cause of education and the elevation of the 
 human race to a higher standard of life than it 
 has ever yet attained. Excuse me, madame, 
 if I speak too much."
 
 264 LUCK : AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 
 
 " You are eloquent, Mr. Lebrun," replied 
 Miss Haugliton, "and we women know little 
 of the subject on which you speak. But I 
 will study it. But can you not help your 
 cause by remainino^ in England? " 
 
 " Not at present, but I may hereafter if I 
 return to England, as I fervently hope I may. 
 The seeds of this great and beneficent social 
 revolution, of which I am one of the humblest 
 of preachers, have been sown in France. I am 
 sufficient of an Eno;lishman to understand the 
 English character far better than my country- 
 men. The English want imagination and enthu- 
 siasm, and without these no great cause can 
 advance much, if it advance at all. England 
 will awaken in due time. But France is the 
 home of generous ideas and noble aspirations, 
 and to France I am summoned by authority that 
 I may not resist. May I trust, Miss Haugh- 
 ton, that your good wishes may go along with 
 me?" 
 
 " Not my good wishes onl}-, but my very best
 
 luck; and what came of it. 265 
 
 of wishes. I feel that your cause must be a 
 high one, or you would not make sacrifices for 
 it." 
 
 " There is but one sacrifice I would not 
 make for it," replied Oscar, placing his hand on 
 his heart, in a manner she could not mistake. 
 
 Beo-inninar to fear that she had allowed 
 matters to go too far, she turned towards Swin- 
 ston, and said with a smile that seemed to 
 him to be angelic, " Good bye, Mr. Lebrun, 
 I trust to hear good news of you from Paris," and 
 with a motion of her hand that seemed to say 
 that she wished to be alone, she waved him 
 off, and walked slowly homewards. He stood 
 as if spellbound, and sitting on the river brink, 
 looked wistfully towards her retreating figure, 
 till she was out of sight. 
 
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