"
"I understood all that before."
"But you didn't understand that Mr. Annesley behaved perfectly well in
all that occurred."
"Did he tell a lie about it afterward?"
"My brother no doubt lured him on to make an untrue statement."
"A lie!"
"You may call it so if you will. If you think that Augustus was to have
it all his own way, I disagree with you altogether. In point of fact,
your nephew behaved through the whole of that matter as well as a man
could do. Practically, he told no lie at all. He did just what a man
ought to do, and anything that you have heard to the contrary is
calumnious and false. As I am told that you have been led by my
brother's statement to disinherit your nephew--"
"I have done nothing of the kind."
"I am very glad to hear it. He has not, at any rate, deserved it; and I
have felt it to be my duty to come and tell you."
Then Mountjoy retired, not without hospitality having been coldly
offered by Mr. Prosper, and went back to Buntingford and to London. Now
at last would come, he said to himself through the whole afternoon, now
at last would come a repetition of those joys for which his very soul
had sighed so eagerly.
CHAPTER XLII.
CAPTAIN VIGNOLLES ENTERTAINS HIS FRIENDS.
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