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HIS GRACE. 263 furious that I daresay she hardly knew what she was saying ; but it wasn’t particularly pleasant to me to listen to her, and I don’t suppose it can have been par- ticularly pleasant to Lady Deverell either. Afterwards Lady Deverell apologized to me, and gave me a sort of explanation. She begged me to stay with her as long as I felt inclined, and promised that I shouldn’t be so insulted a second time; nevertheless, I don’t think she was much grieved to hear that I had already made arrangements for leaving.” “That you had.made arrangements ? ” “Yes ; by a queer stroke of good fortune, Uncle John Piped to be one of the crowd. I had shaken hands with him a few minutes before ; so, as soon as Miss St. George turned her back upon me, I sought him out, and reminded him of an old offer of his. He was quite pleasant about it; he said they would, of course, be very happy to give me house-room, and he didn’t ask more questions than he could help. Naturally, he lamented what he called ‘the pecuniary collapse of that foolish young nobleman,’ which, he feared, would ‘ throw Philip out of work again’; but I don’t think he sus- pected the existence of any other intricacies in our relations with the foolish young nobleman. So, you see, I shall be all right, and you needn’t worry yourself about me until you have cleared yourself from more important worries.’ I had nothing to urge against an arrangement which, under all circumstances, seemed to be the wisest and most feasible that could be suggested ; but I thought that I ought, perhaps, to say a word or two about Hurstbourne, and I should probably have been clumsy enough to utter those words if Hurstbourne himself had GComicboo cS Gol