Every scrape of the government was a step in
the ladder to the great borough-monger. The old king too had
disappeared from the stage; and the tawdry grandeur of the
great Norman peer rather suited George the Fourth. He was
rather a favourite at the Cottage; they wanted his six votes
for Canning; he made his terms; and one of the means by which
we got a man of genius for a minister, was elevating Lord
Fitz-Warene in the peerage, by the style and title of Earl de
Mowbray of Mowbray Castle.
Book 2 Chapter 8
We must now for a while return to the strangers of the Abbey
ruins. When the two men had joined the beautiful Religious,
whose apparition had so startled Egremont, they all three
quitted the Abbey by a way which led them by the back of the
cloister garden, and so on by the bank of the river for about
a hundred yards, when they turned up the winding glen of a
dried-up tributary stream. At the head of the glen, at which
they soon arrived, was a beer-shop, screened by some huge elms
from the winds that blew over the vast moor, which, except in
the direction of Mardale, now extended as far as the eye could
reach. Here the companions stopped, the beautiful Religious
seated herself on a stone bench beneath the trees, while the
elder stranger calling out to the inmate of the house to
apprise him of his return, himself proceeded to a neighbouring
shed, whence he brought forth a very small rough pony with a
rude saddle, but one evidently intended for a female rider.
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