And then there
arose another embarrassment. Sir Marmaduke, who had taught himself to
believe that Stanbury was so poor as hardly to have the price of a
dinner in his pocket although, in fact, our friend Hugh was probably
the richer man of the two, said something about defraying the cost of
the journey. 'It is taken altogether on our behalf,' said Sir
Marmaduke. Hugh became red in the face, looked angry, and muttered a
word or two about Trevelyan being the oldest friend he had in the world
'even if there were nothing else.' Sir Marmaduke felt ashamed of
himself without cause, indeed, for the offer was natural, said nothing
further about it; but appeared to be more stiff and ungainly than ever.
The Bradshaw was had out and consulted, and nearly half an hour was
spent in poring over that wondrous volume. It is the fashion to abuse
Bradshaw; we speak now especially of Bradshaw the Continental because
all the minutest details of the autumn tour, just as the tourist thinks
that it may be made, cannot be made patent to him at once without close
research amidst crowded figures.
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