'
'I'll tell you what,' said Silverbridge. 'If I thought this was
all fair sailing I'd do it. I should feel certain that I should
come a cropper, but still I'd try it. As you say, a fellow should
try. But it's all meant as a blow at the governor. Old Beeswax
thinks that if he can get me up to swear that he and his crew are
real first-chop hands, that will hit the governor hard. It's as
much as saying to the governor,--"This chap belongs to me, not to
you." That's a thing I won't go in for.' Then Tregear counselled
him to write to his father for advice, and at the same time ask
Sir Timothy to allow him a day or two for consideration. This
counsel he took. His letter reached his father two days before he
left Matching. In answer to it there came first a telegram begging
Silverbridge to be in London on the Monday, and then a letter, in
which the Duke expressed himself as being anxious to see his son
before giving a final answer to the question. Thus it was that
Silverbridge had been taken away from his hunting.
Isabel Boncassen, however, was now in London, and from her it was
possible that he might find consolation.
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