She contrived to find
herself alone with Miss Cassewary, and asked some further
questions about Mr Tregear. 'He's a cousin of my Lord's,' said
Miss Cass.
'So I thought. I wonder what sort of young man he is. He is a good
deal with Lord Silverbridge.'
Then Miss Cassewary spoke her opinion very plainly. 'If Lord
Silverbridge has nobody worse about him than Mr Tregear he would
not come to much harm.'
'I suppose he's not very well off?'
'No;--certainly not. He will have a property of some kind, I
believe, when his mother dies. I think very well of Mr Tregear;--
only I wish that he had a profession. But why are you asking about
him, Lady Cantrip?'
'Nidderdale was talking to me about him and saying that he was so
much with Lord Silverbridge. Lord Silverbridge is going into
Parliament now, and, as it were, beginning the world, and it would
be a thousand pities that he should get into bad hands.' It may,
however, be doubted whether Miss Cassewary was hoodwinked by this
little story.
Early in the second week of May the Duke brought his daughter up
to The Horns, and at the same time expressed his intention of
remaining in London.
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