TALES OF TWO
PEOPLE

BY
ANTHONY HOPE
AUTHOR OF “THE DOLLY DIALOGUES,” “THE KING’S MIRROR,” ETC.

WITH A FRONTISPIECE BY A. H. BUCKLAND

SECOND EDITION

METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON

CONTENTS

HELENA’S PATH

CHAPTER I

AMBROSE, LORD LYNBOROUGH

COMMON opinion said that Lord Lynborough ought never to have had a peerage and forty thousand a year; he ought to have had a pound a week and a back bedroom in Bloomsbury. Then he would have become an eminent man; as it was, he turned out only a singularly erratic individual.

So much for common opinion. Let no more be heard of its dull utilitarian judgments! There are plenty of eminent men—at the moment, it is believed, no less than seventy Cabinet and ex-Cabinet Ministers (or thereabouts)—to say nothing of Bishops, Judges, and the British Academy—and all this in a nook of the world! (And the world too is a point!) Lynborough was something much more uncommon; it is not, however, quite easy to say what. Let the question be