"
His master, who had relapsed into thought before he concluded his
advice, looked at him without seeming to have heard it. He then
traversed the room several times, his chin supported by his finger and
thumb, after which he seemed to have formed a resolution.
"Go, sir," said he, "and put that letter to Father M'Mahon in the
post-office. I shall not want you for some time."
"Will I ordher a chaise, sir?" replied Dandy, with a serio-comic face.
One look from his master, however, sent him about his business; but
the latter could hear him lilting the "White Cockade," as he went down
stairs.
"Now," said he, when Dandy was gone, "can it be possible that she has
at length given her consent to this marriage? Never voluntarily. It
has been extorted by foul deceit and threatening, by some base fraud
practised upon her generous and unsuspecting nature. I am culpable
to stand tamely by and allow this great and glorious creature to be
sacrificed to a bad ambition, and a worse man, without coming to the
rescue.
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