The Hon. Adolphus Lightfoot. 83 



if you'd never done anything wrong in your life. What do 

 you mean by it, eh ? " 



The Honourable Adolphus, or, to give him the name he 

 is best known by, Dolly Lightfoot, is one of the most 

 popular characters in the county. A brother of the 

 present Viscount Trottup, he lives when he is at home, 

 which is not very often, by the way, in a pretty little house 

 called The Pre, bequeathed to him by an elderly aunt some 

 years before. Artful Dolly is extremely fond of informing 

 people that he is, what he is pleased to term, a poor devil 

 of a younger son. Thus, when asked, say by some good 

 clergyman, for a subscription to a new organ for his 

 church, or perhaps tempted to buy something very sweet 

 in the way of horseflesh by a silver-tongued dealer, he 

 will reply to the former in the most open-hearted manner 

 imaginable : '' My dear sir, nothing, I assure you, would 

 give me more pleasure than subscribing handsomely to 

 your new organ. I dote on music. I positively adore it, 

 I do, indeed ; and the organ, in my opinion, is the grandest, 

 the very grandest instrument in the world. You will 

 scarcely believe it, but when I was a boy at Eton — a 

 happy boy at Drury's (you have read Praed, of course) 

 I constantly on a half-holiday, when my schoolfellows 

 were devoting themselves to football and other amuse- 

 ments, used to rush up to St. George's Chapel, at 

 Windsor, to attend afternoon service, for the sake of 

 hearing the anthem, and if I could only succeed in getting 

 up into the organ-loft, my happiness was complete." 

 (Dolly forgot to add that on one memorable occasion he 

 got into the organ-loft before the organist arrived, and 

 amused himself in the interval with sticking the keys of 

 the instrument together with beeswax, so that playing on 



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