“Go, leave the room, Sir.”
He instantly obeyed.
Then Sandford, turning to Lord Elmwood, shook him by the hand, and cried, “My Lord, I thank you—I thank you very kindly, my Lord—I shall now begin to think I have some weight with you.”
“You might indeed think so, did you know how much I have pardoned.”
“What was his offence, my Lord?”
“Such as I would not have forgiven you, or any earthly being besides himself—but while you were speaking in his behalf, I recollected there was a gratitude so extraordinary in the hazards he ran, that almost made him pardonable.”
“I guess the subject then,” cried Sandford; and yet I could not have supposed”——
“It is a subject we cannot speak on, Sandford, therefore let us drop it.”
At these words the discourse concluded.