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Gerard Montagu;
batch is wanted to swamp the Lords on some Liberal question . The present Lord is twice as proud and haughty as a De Courcy , a Stanley , a Howard , or a Percy . Another noble Lord ' s grandfather was a lawyer , and becomes Lord Chancellor , he
marries his cook , and his grandson figures in the Divorce Court . Or , perhaps , the descendant of twenty Earls , an effete gentleman , who boasts of his blue blood obtained throug h marrying in and in for ten generations , until it has become , shall I say ichor , falls in love and marries a pretty actress , and the result is the azure becomes more
like crimson , and the brains of the new generation are improved in quality , whilst the physical man is improved in tone . I have had some experience , and I say this , that in these days money is everything , blood and birth nothing . A man with
money can aspire , to anyone ! " By the bye , Gerard , I think yon said you knew Lord Chelmondiston , Lady Muriel's relative ? " I put in . "Well , I ' don't know much of him . The first time I met him it was a queer business . "
" You don't say so ?" " Yes I do . I was then in business at South Wrington , and was going home to Barton , where I lodged , about two miles off . Abbot Wrington is an old town in the north of England , standing out on a
peninsula , and jutting out into the sea . South Wrington , the new town , lies more hack and stretches away to the South , rather towards Barton , which is a little watering place , you know . There arc large iron works at South Wrington , and at
the time I speak of the men were out on strike . Some of them were desperate looking fellows , and I thought I would rather not meet any of them on a dark ni ght . Well I had been on drill ( I was a full
, Private in our Artillery Corps ) and we strolled into the principal hotel afterwards to have a smoke and a glass of grog before going home , for it was a cold night in December . Lord Chelmondiston had been ° n drill too but to tell the truth he was
; gather a fast fellow at that time . Its now joui' years ago he was only—19 or 20—and : daresay he ' s altered now . At any rate « e went off to the Theatre with Menzies , ° ne of our Captains , and a regular tnft
hunter by the way . Where they went afterwards I don ' t know ; but I left the hotel a little before 12 ( it was before Brace ' s act you see ) and was on my way home when I heard the sound of some one riding furiously behind me . The tide was
up , and I could'nt get by the sands , which were always covered at high water , and there was nothing for it but to go over the sand hills—or bents as they call them in the North , which in the darkness was not pleasantthey are so full of pit falls .
, Well , I thought this fellow must be either mad or a fool , or he would not come pounding along at this pace such a night as this and in such a place . However , be passed me at a galop , yelling out as he went by a drunken " Tally ho . " Fearing something
would be sure to happen , I hurried after him as fast as I could , and 1 don ' t suppose I had gone another hundred yards before I heard a cry of ' Help ! ' Sure enough his Lordship is down , 1 thought , lucky for him its soft sand and not hard boulder . I ran on as fust as I could as I heard
another cry , and by Jove , there he was pitched off the horse on to bis head , aud two fellows trying to rob him . I recognised one of them as a man I had seen at the Iron Works , and before he could say Jack Robinson , I had given him a
crack with the flat of my sword-bayonet , which sent him down like a shot . The other fellow was off in quick sticks , and luckily we were not far from a lonely farm , known as Carr House , which stands midway between Barton and West Wrington ,
and I was able to call assistance and get him in . His collar bone was out , but we got him removed in a few days to the Castle , aud my dear old friend , Dr . Evans , ( a first class fellow ) attended him , and soon pulled him through . I think it did
him good , you know ; I don't believe he ' s been drunk since . " " Sharp lesson , certainly . Lueky you were in the way it strikes me ; " Falconbridge remarks . " Was be going home t" I asked . " Well , he thought he was I suppose ; but the fact is if be had gone much farther he would have found himself in the
German Ocean I suspect . " What became of the fellow you knocked down 1 " said Falconbridge . " Oh , him ? " James Beard , 1 remem-T
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Gerard Montagu;
batch is wanted to swamp the Lords on some Liberal question . The present Lord is twice as proud and haughty as a De Courcy , a Stanley , a Howard , or a Percy . Another noble Lord ' s grandfather was a lawyer , and becomes Lord Chancellor , he
marries his cook , and his grandson figures in the Divorce Court . Or , perhaps , the descendant of twenty Earls , an effete gentleman , who boasts of his blue blood obtained throug h marrying in and in for ten generations , until it has become , shall I say ichor , falls in love and marries a pretty actress , and the result is the azure becomes more
like crimson , and the brains of the new generation are improved in quality , whilst the physical man is improved in tone . I have had some experience , and I say this , that in these days money is everything , blood and birth nothing . A man with
money can aspire , to anyone ! " By the bye , Gerard , I think yon said you knew Lord Chelmondiston , Lady Muriel's relative ? " I put in . "Well , I ' don't know much of him . The first time I met him it was a queer business . "
" You don't say so ?" " Yes I do . I was then in business at South Wrington , and was going home to Barton , where I lodged , about two miles off . Abbot Wrington is an old town in the north of England , standing out on a
peninsula , and jutting out into the sea . South Wrington , the new town , lies more hack and stretches away to the South , rather towards Barton , which is a little watering place , you know . There arc large iron works at South Wrington , and at
the time I speak of the men were out on strike . Some of them were desperate looking fellows , and I thought I would rather not meet any of them on a dark ni ght . Well I had been on drill ( I was a full
, Private in our Artillery Corps ) and we strolled into the principal hotel afterwards to have a smoke and a glass of grog before going home , for it was a cold night in December . Lord Chelmondiston had been ° n drill too but to tell the truth he was
; gather a fast fellow at that time . Its now joui' years ago he was only—19 or 20—and : daresay he ' s altered now . At any rate « e went off to the Theatre with Menzies , ° ne of our Captains , and a regular tnft
hunter by the way . Where they went afterwards I don ' t know ; but I left the hotel a little before 12 ( it was before Brace ' s act you see ) and was on my way home when I heard the sound of some one riding furiously behind me . The tide was
up , and I could'nt get by the sands , which were always covered at high water , and there was nothing for it but to go over the sand hills—or bents as they call them in the North , which in the darkness was not pleasantthey are so full of pit falls .
, Well , I thought this fellow must be either mad or a fool , or he would not come pounding along at this pace such a night as this and in such a place . However , be passed me at a galop , yelling out as he went by a drunken " Tally ho . " Fearing something
would be sure to happen , I hurried after him as fast as I could , and 1 don ' t suppose I had gone another hundred yards before I heard a cry of ' Help ! ' Sure enough his Lordship is down , 1 thought , lucky for him its soft sand and not hard boulder . I ran on as fust as I could as I heard
another cry , and by Jove , there he was pitched off the horse on to bis head , aud two fellows trying to rob him . I recognised one of them as a man I had seen at the Iron Works , and before he could say Jack Robinson , I had given him a
crack with the flat of my sword-bayonet , which sent him down like a shot . The other fellow was off in quick sticks , and luckily we were not far from a lonely farm , known as Carr House , which stands midway between Barton and West Wrington ,
and I was able to call assistance and get him in . His collar bone was out , but we got him removed in a few days to the Castle , aud my dear old friend , Dr . Evans , ( a first class fellow ) attended him , and soon pulled him through . I think it did
him good , you know ; I don't believe he ' s been drunk since . " " Sharp lesson , certainly . Lueky you were in the way it strikes me ; " Falconbridge remarks . " Was be going home t" I asked . " Well , he thought he was I suppose ; but the fact is if be had gone much farther he would have found himself in the
German Ocean I suspect . " What became of the fellow you knocked down 1 " said Falconbridge . " Oh , him ? " James Beard , 1 remem-T