dried.
His
sister
,
when
he
had
a
trouble
,
would
never
hear
of
this
;
she
always
held
that
the
misery
and
calamities
of
their
early
years
had
exhausted
the
influence
of
their
evil
stars
,
and
apparently
she
had
been
right
,
and
perhaps
she
would
have
always
been
right
had
he
not
been
perverse
,
and
thwarted
her
in
the
most
important
circumstances
of
his
life
.
In
this
state
of
mind
,
there
was
nothing
for
him
to
do
but
to
plunge
into
business
;
and
affairs
of
state
are
a
cure
for
many
cares
and
sorrows
.
What
are
our
petty
annoyances
and
griefs
when
we
have
to
guard
the
fortunes
and
the
honour
of
a
nation
?
The
November
cabinets
had
commenced
,
and
this
brought
all
the
chiefs
to
town
,
Sidney
Wilton
among
them
;
and
his
society
was
always
a
great
pleasure
to
Endymion
;
the
only
social
pleasure
now
left
to
him
was
a
little
dinner
at
Mr.
Wilton’s
,
and
little
dinners
there
abounded
.
Mr.
Wilton
knew
all
the
persons
that
he
was
always
thinking
about
,
but
whom
,
it
might
be
noticed
,
they
seemed
to
agree
now
rarely
to
mention
.
As
for
the
rest
,
there
was
nobody
to
call
upon
in
the
delightful
hours
between
official
duties
and
dinner
.
No
Lady
Roehampton
now
,
no
brilliant
Berengaria
,
and
not
even
the
gentle
Imogene
with
her
welcome
smile
.
He
looked
in
at
the
Coventry
Club
,
a
club
of
fashion
,
and
also
much
frequented
by
diplomatists
.
There
were
a
good
many
persons
there
,
and
a
foreign
minister
immediately
buttonholed
the
Under-Secretary
of
State
.
“
I
called
at
the
Foreign
Office
to-day
,
”
said
the
foreign
minister
.
“
I
assure
you
it
is
very
pressing
.
”
“
I
had
the
American
with
me
,
”
said
Endymion
,
“
and
he
is
very
lengthy
.
However
,
as
to
your
business
,
I
think
we
might
talk
it
over
here
,
and
perhaps
settle
it
.
”
And
so
they
left
the
room
together
.
“
I
wonder
what
is
going
to
happen
to
that
gentleman
,
”
said
Mr.
Ormsby
,
glancing
at
Endymion
,
and
speaking
to
Mr.
Cassilis
.
“
Why
?
”
replied
Mr.
Cassilis
,
“
is
anything
up
?
”
“
Will
he
marry
Lady
Montfort
?
”
“
Poh
!
”
said
Mr.
Cassilis
.
“
You
may
poh
!
”
said
Mr.
Ormsby
,
“
but
he
was
a
great
favourite
.
”
“
Lady
Montfort
will
never
marry
.
She
had
always
a
poodle
,
and
always
will
have
.
She
was
never
so
liee
with
Ferrars
as
with
the
Count
of
Ferroll
,
and
half
a
dozen
others
.
She
must
have
a
slave
.
”
“
A
very
good
mistress
with
thirty
thousand
a
year
.
”
“
She
has
not
that
,
”
said
Mr.
Cassilis
doubtingly
.
“
What
do
you
put
Princedown
at
?
”
said
Mr.
Ormsby
.
“
That
I
can
tell
you
to
a
T
,
”
replied
Mr.
Cassilis
,
“
for
it
was
offered
to
me
when
old
Rambrooke
died
.
You
will
never
get
twelve
thousand
a
year
out
of
it
.
”
“
Well
,
I
will
answer
for
half
a
million
consols
,
”
said
Ormsby
,
“
for
my
lawyer
,
when
he
made
a
little
investment
for
me
the
other
day
,
saw
the
entry
himself
in
the
bank-books
;
our
names
are
very
near
,
you
know
—
M
,
and
O
.
Then
there
is
her
jointure
,
something
like
ten
thousand
a
year
.
”
“
No
,
no
;
not
seven
.
”
“
Well
,
that
would
do
.
”
“
And
what
is
the
amount
of
your
little
investment
in
consols
altogether
,
Ormsby
?
”
“
Well
,
I
believe
I
top
Montfort
,
”
said
Mr.
Ormsby
with
a
complacent
smile
,
“
but
then
you
know
,
I
am
not
a
swell
like
you
;
I
have
no
land
.
”
“
Lady
Montfort
,
thirty
thousand
a
year
,
”
said
Mr.
Cassilis
musingly
.
“
She
is
only
thirty
.
She
is
a
woman
who
will
set
the
Thames
on
fire
,
but
she
will
never
marry
.
Do
you
dine
to-day
,
by
any
chance
,
with
Sidney
Wilton
?
”
When
Endymion
returned
home
this
evening
,
he
found
a
letter
from
Lady
Montfort
.
It
was
a
month
since
he
had
written
to
her
.
He
was
so
nervous
that
he
absolutely
for
a
moment
could
not
break
the
seal
,
and
the
palpitation
of
his
heart
was
almost
overpowering
.
Lady
Montfort
thanked
him
for
his
kind
letter
,
which
she
ought
to
have
acknowledged
before
,
but
she
had
been
very
busy
—
indeed
,
quite
overwhelmed
with
affairs
.
She
wished
to
see
him
,
but
was
sorry
she
could
not
ask
him
to
come
down
to
Princedown
,
as
she
was
living
in
complete
retirement
,
only
her
aunt
with
her
,
Lady
Gertrude
,
whom
,
she
believed
,
he
knew
.
He
was
aware
,
probably
,
how
good
Lord
Montfort
had
been
to
her
.
Sincerely
she
could
say
,
nothing
could
have
been
more
unexpected
.
If
she
could
have
seen
her
husband
before
the
fatal
moment
,
it
would
have
been
a
consolation
to
her
.
He
had
always
been
kind
to
Endymion
;
she
really
believed
sometimes
that
Lord
Montfort
was
even
a
little
attached
to
him
.
She
should
like
Endymion
to
have
some
souvenir
of
her
late
husband
.
Would
he
choose
something
,
or
would
he
leave
it
to
her
?
One
would
rather
agree
,
from
the
tone
of
this
letter
,
that
Mr.
Cassilis
knew
what
he
was
talking
about
.
It
fell
rather
odd
on
Endymion’s
heart
,
and
he
passed
a
night
of
some
disquietude
;
not
one
of
those
nights
,
exactly
,
when
we
feel
that
the
end
of
the
world
has
at
length
arrived
,
and
that
we
are
the
first
victim
,
but
a
night
when
you
slumber
rather
than
sleep
,
and
wake
with
the
consciousness
of
some
indefinable
chagrin
.
This
was
a
dull
Christmas
for
Endymion
Ferrars
.
He
passed
it
,
as
he
had
passed
others
,
at
Gaydene
,
but
what
a
contrast
to
the
old
assemblies
there
!
Every
source
of
excitement
that
could
make
existence
absolutely
fascinating
seemed
then
to
unite
in
his
happy
fate
.
Entrancing
love
and
the
very
romance
of
domestic
affection
,
and
friendships
of
honour
and
happiness
,
and
all
the
charms
of
an
accomplished
society
,
and
the
feeling
of
a
noble
future
,
and
the
present
and
urgent
interest
in
national
affairs
—
all
gone
,
except
some
ambition
which
might
tend
to
consequences
not
more
successful
than
those
that
had
ultimately
visited
his
house
with
irreparable
calamity
.
The
meeting
of
parliament
was
a
great
relief
to
Endymion
.
Besides
his
office
,
he
had
now
the
House
of
Commons
to
occupy
him
.
He
was
never
absent
from
his
place
;
no
little
runnings
up
to
Montfort
House
or
Hill
Street
just
to
tell
them
the
authentic
news
,
or
snatch
a
hasty
repast
with
furtive
delight
,
with
persons
still
more
delightful
,
and
flattering
one’s
self
all
the
time
that
,
so
far
as
absence
was
concerned
,
the
fleetness
of
one’s
gifted
brougham
horse
really
made
it
no
difference
between
Mayfair
and
Bellamy’s
.
Endymion
had
replied
,
but
not
very
quickly
,
to
Lady
Montfort’s
letter
,
and
he
had
heard
from
her
again
,
but
her
letter
requiring
no
reply
,
the
correspondence
had
dropped
.
It
was
the
beginning
of
March
when
she
wrote
to
him
to
say
,
that
she
was
obliged
to
come
to
town
to
see
her
lawyer
and
transact
some
business
;
that
she
would
be
“
at
papa’s
in
Grosvenor
Square
,
”
though
the
house
was
shut
up
,
on
a
certain
day
,
that
she
much
wished
to
see
Endymion
,
and
begged
him
to
call
on
her
.
It
was
a
trying
moment
when
about
noon
he
lifted
the
knocker
to
Grosvenor
Square
.
The
door
was
not
opened
rapidly
,
and
the
delay
made
him
more
nervous
.
He
almost
wished
the
door
would
never
open
.
He
was
shown
into
a
small
back
room
on
the
ground
floor
in
which
was
a
bookcase
,
and
which
chamber
,
in
the
language
of
Grosvenor
Square
,
is
called
a
library
.
“
Her
ladyship
will
see
you
presently
,
”
said
the
servant
,
who
had
come
up
from
Princedown
.
Endymion
was
standing
before
the
fire
,
and
as
nervous
as
a
man
could
well
be
.
He
sighed
,
and
he
sighed
more
than
once
.
His
breathing
was
oppressed
;
he
felt
that
life
was
too
short
to
permit
us
to
experience
such
scenes
and
situations
.
He
heard
the
lock
of
the
door
move
,
and
it
required
all
his
manliness
to
endure
it
.
She
entered
;
she
was
in
weeds
,
but
they
became
her
admirably
;
her
countenance
was
grave
and
apparently
with
an
effort
to
command
it
.
She
did
not
move
hurriedly
,
but
held
out
both
her
hands
to
Endymion
and
retained
his
,
and
all
without
speaking
.
Her
lips
then
seemed
to
move
,
when
,
rather
suddenly
,
withdrawing
her
right
hand
,
and
placing
it
on
his
shoulder
and
burying
her
face
in
her
arm
,
she
wept
.
He
led
her
soothingly
to
a
seat
,
and
took
a
chair
by
her
side
.
Not
a
word
had
yet
been
spoken
by
either
of
them
;
only
a
murmur
of
sympathy
on
the
part
of
Endymion
.
Lady
Montfort
spoke
first
.
“
I
am
weaker
than
I
thought
,
but
it
is
a
great
trial
.
”
And
then
she
said
how
sorry
she
was
,
that
she
could
not
receive
him
at
Princedown
;
but
she
thought
it
best
that
he
should
not
go
there
.
“
I
have
a
great
deal
of
business
to
transact
—
you
would
not
believe
how
much
.
I
do
not
dislike
it
,
it
occupies
me
,
it
employs
my
mind
.
I
have
led
so
active
a
life
,
that
solitude
is
rather
too
much
for
me
.
Among
other
business
,
I
must
buy
a
town
house
,
and
that
is
the
most
difficult
of
all
affairs
.
There
never
was
so
great
a
city
with
such
small
houses
.
I
shall
feel
the
loss
of
Montfort
House
,
though
I
never
used
it
half
so
much
as
I
wished
.
I
want
a
mansion
;
I
should
think
you
could
help
me
in
this
.
When
I
return
to
society
,
I
mean
to
receive
.
There
must
be
therefore
good
reception
rooms
;
if
possible
,
more
than
good
.
And
now
let
us
talk
about
our
friends
.
Tell
me
all
about
your
royal
sister
,
and
this
new
marriage
;
it
rather
surprised
me
,
but
I
think
it
excellent
.
Ah
!
you
can
keep
a
secret
,
but
you
see
it
is
no
use
having
a
secret
with
me
.
Even
in
solitude
everything
reaches
me
.
”
“
I
assure
you
most
seriously
,
that
I
can
annex
no
meaning
to
what
you
are
saying
.
”
“
Then
I
can
hardly
think
it
true
;
and
yet
it
came
from
high
authority
,
and
it
was
not
told
me
as
a
real
secret
.
”
“
A
marriage
,
and
whose
?
”
“
Miss
Neuchatel’s
,
—
Adriana
.
”
“
And
to
whom
?
”
inquired
Endymion
,
changing
colour
.
“
To
Lord
Waldershare
.
”
“
To
Lord
Waldershare
!
”
“
And
has
not
your
sister
mentioned
it
to
you
?
”
“
Not
a
word
;
it
cannot
be
true
.
”
“
I
will
give
to
you
my
authority
,
”
said
Lady
Montfort
.
“
Though
I
came
here
in
the
twilight
of
a
hired
brougham
,
and
with
a
veil
,
I
was
caught
before
I
could
enter
the
house
by
,
of
all
people
in
the
world
,
Mrs.
Rodney
.
And
she
told
me
this
in
what
she
called
‘real
confidence
,
’
and
it
was
announced
to
her
in
a
letter
from
her
sister
,
Lady
Beaumaris
.
They
seem
all
delighted
with
the
match
.
”
CHAPTER
XXX
The
marriage
of
Adriana
was
not
an
event
calculated
to
calm
the
uneasy
and
dissatisfied
temperament
of
Endymion
.
The
past
rendered
it
impossible
that
this
announcement
should
not
in
some
degree
affect
him
.
Then
the
silence
of
his
sister
on
such
a
subject
was
too
significant
;
the
silence
even
of
Waldershare
.
Somehow
or
other
,
it
seemed
that
all
these
once
dear
and
devoted
friends
stood
in
different
relations
to
him
and
to
each
other
from
what
they
once
filled
.
They
had
become
more
near
and
intimate
together
,
but
he
seemed
without
the
pale
;
he
,
that
Endymion
,
who
once
seemed
the
prime
object
,
if
not
the
centre
,
of
all
their
thoughts
and
sentiment
.
And
why
was
this
?
What
was
the
influence
that
had
swayed
him
to
a
line
contrary
to
what
was
once
their
hopes
and
affections
?
Had
he
an
evil
genius
?
And
was
it
she
?
Horrible
thought
!
The
interview
with
Lady
Montfort
had
been
deeply
interesting
—
had
for
a
moment
restored
him
to
himself
.
Had
it
not
been
for
this
news
,
he
might
have
returned
home
,
soothed
,
gratified
,
even
again
indulging
in
dreams
.
But
this
news
had
made
him
ponder
;
had
made
him
feel
what
he
had
lost
,
and
forced
him
to
ask
himself
what
he
had
gained
.
There
was
one
thing
he
had
gained
,
and
that
was
the
privilege
of
calling
on
Lady
Montfort
the
next
day
.
That
was
a
fact
that
sometimes
dissipated
all
the
shadows
.
Under
the
immediate
influence
of
her
presence
,
he
became
spell-bound
as
of
yore
,
and
in
the
intoxication
of
her
beauty
,
the
brightness
of
her
mind
,
and
her
ineffable
attraction
,
he
felt
he
would
be
content
with
any
lot
,
provided
he
might
retain
her
kind
thoughts
and
pass
much
of
his
life
in
her
society
.
She
was
only
staying
three
or
four
days
in
town
,
and
was
much
engaged
in
the
mornings
;
but
Endymion
called
on
her
every
afternoon
,
and
sate
talking
with
her
till
dinner-time
,
and
they
both
dined
very
late
.
As
he
really
on
personal
and
domestic
affairs
never
could
have
any
reserve
with
her
,
he
told
her
,
in
that
complete
confidence
in
which
they
always
indulged
,
of
the
extraordinary
revelation
which
his
sister
had
made
to
him
about
the
parliamentary
qualification
.
Lady
Montfort
was
deeply
interested
in
this
;
she
was
even
agitated
,
and
looked
very
grave
.
“
I
am
sorry
,
”
she
said
,
“
we
know
this
.
Things
cannot
remain
now
as
they
are
.
You
cannot
return
the
money
,
that
would
be
churlish
;
besides
,
you
cannot
return
all
the
advantages
which
it
gained
for
you
,
and
they
must
certainly
be
considered
part
of
the
gift
,
and
the
most
precious
;
and
then
,
too
,
it
would
betray
what
your
sister
rightly
called
a
‘sacred
confidence.’
And
yet
something
must
be
done
—
you
must
let
me
think
.
Do
not
mention
it
again
.
”
And
then
they
talked
a
little
of
public
affairs
.
Lady
Montfort
saw
no
one
,
and
heard
from
no
one
now
;
but
judging
from
the
journals
,
she
thought
the
position
of
the
government
feeble
.
“
There
cannot
be
a
Protectionist
government
,
”
she
said
;
“
and
yet
that
is
the
only
parliamentary
party
of
importance
.
Things
will
go
on
till
some
blow
,
and
perhaps
a
slight
one
,
will
upset
you
all
.
And
then
who
is
to
succeed
?
I
think
some
queer
melange
got
up
perhaps
by
Mr.
Bertie
Tremaine
.
”
The
last
day
came
.
She
parted
from
Endymion
with
kindness
,
but
not
with
tenderness
.
He
was
choking
with
emotion
,
and
tried
to
imitate
her
calmness
.
“
Am
I
to
write
to
you
?
”
he
asked
in
a
faltering
voice
.
“
Of
course
you
are
,
”
she
said
,
“
every
day
,
and
tell
me
all
the
news
.
”
The
Hainaults
,
and
the
Beaumaris
,
and
Waldershare
,
did
not
return
to
England
until
some
time
after
Easter
.
The
marriage
was
to
take
place
in
June
—
Endymion
was
to
be
Waldershare’s
best
man
.
There
were
many
festivities
,
and
he
was
looked
upon
as
an
indispensable
guest
in
all
.
Adriana
received
his
congratulations
with
animation
,
but
with
affection
.
She
thanked
him
for
a
bracelet
which
he
had
presented
to
her
;
“
I
value
it
more
,
”
she
said
,
“
than
all
my
other
presents
together
,
except
what
dear
Waldershare
has
given
to
me
.
”
Even
with
that
exception
,
the
estimate
was
high
,
for
never
a
bride
in
any
land
ever
received
the
number
of
splendid
offerings
which
crowded
the
tables
of
Lord
Hainault’s
new
palace
,
which
he
had
just
built
in
Park
Lane
.
There
was
not
a
Neuchatel
in
existence
,
and
they
flourished
in
every
community
,
who
did
not
send
her
,
at
least
,
a
riviere
of
brilliants
.
King
Florestan
and
his
queen
sent
offerings
worthy
of
their
resplendent
throne
and
their
invaluable
friendship
.
But
nothing
surpassed
,
nothing
approached
,
the
contents
of
a
casket
,
which
,
a
day
before
the
wedding
,
arrived
at
Hainault
House
.
It
came
from
a
foreign
land
,
and
Waldershare
superintended
the
opening
of
the
case
,
and
the
appearance
of
a
casket
of
crimson
velvet
,
with
genuine
excitement
.
But
when
it
was
opened
!
There
was
a
coronet
of
brilliants
;
a
necklace
of
brilliants
and
emeralds
,
and
all
the
stones
more
than
precious
;
gems
of
Golconda
no
longer
obtainable
,
and
lustrous
companions
which
only
could
have
been
created
in
the
hot
earth
of
Asia
.
From
whom
?
Not
a
glimpse
of
meaning
.
All
that
was
written
,
in
a
foreign
handwriting
on
a
sheet
of
notepaper
,
was
,
“
For
the
Lady
Viscountess
Waldershare
.
”
“
When
the
revolution
comes
,
”
said
Lord
Hainault
,
“
Lord
Waldershare
and
my
daughter
must
turn
jewellers
.
Their
stock
in
trade
is
ready
.
”
The
correspondence
between
Lady
Montfort
and
Endymion
had
resumed
its
ancient
habit
.
They
wrote
to
each
other
every
day
,
and
one
day
she
told
him
that
she
had
purchased
a
house
,
and
that
she
must
come
up
to
town
to
examine
and
to
furnish
it
.
She
probably
should
be
a
month
in
London
,
and
remaining
there
until
the
end
of
the
season
,
in
whose
amusements
and
business
,
of
course
,
she
could
not
share
.
She
should
“
be
at
papa’s
,
”
though
he
and
his
family
were
in
town
;
but
that
was
no
reason
why
Endymion
should
not
call
on
her
.
And
he
came
,
and
called
every
day
.
Lady
Montfort
was
full
of
her
new
house
;
it
was
in
Carlton
Gardens
,
the
house
she
always
wished
,
always
intended
to
have
.
There
is
nothing
like
will
;
everybody
can
do
exactly
what
they
like
in
this
world
,
provided
they
really
like
it
.
Sometimes
they
think
they
do
,
but
in
general
,
it
is
a
mistake
.
Lady
Montfort
,
it
seemed
,
was
a
woman
who
always
could
do
what
she
liked
.
She
could
do
what
she
liked
with
Endymion
Ferrars
;
that
was
quite
certain
.
Supposed
by
men
to
have
a
strong
will
and
a
calm
judgment
,
he
was
a
nose
of
wax
with
this
woman
.
He
was
fascinated
by
her
,
and
he
had
been
fascinated
now
for
nearly
ten
years
.
What
would
be
the
result
of
this
irresistible
influence
upon
him
?
Would
it
make
or
mar
those
fortunes
that
once
seemed
so
promising
?
The
philosophers
of
White’s
and
the
Coventry
were
generally
of
opinion
that
he
had
no
chance
.
Lady
Montfort
was
busy
every
morning
with
her
new
house
,
but
she
never
asked
Endymion
to
accompany
her
,
though
it
seemed
natural
to
do
so
.
But
he
saw
her
every
day
,
and
“
papa
,
”
who
was
a
most
kind
and
courtly
gentleman
,
would
often
ask
him
,
“
if
he
had
nothing
better
to
do
,
”
to
dine
there
,
and
he
dined
there
frequently
;
and
if
he
were
engaged
,
he
was
always
of
opinion
that
he
had
nothing
better
to
do
.
At
last
,
however
,
the
season
was
over
;
the
world
had
gone
to
Goodwood
,
and
Lady
Montfort
was
about
to
depart
to
Princedown
.
It
was
a
dreary
prospect
for
Endymion
,
and
he
could
not
conceal
his
feelings
.
He
could
not
help
saying
one
day
,
“
Do
you
know
,
now
that
you
are
going
I
almost
wish
to
die
.
”
Alas
!
she
only
laughed
.
But
he
looked
grave
.
“
I
am
very
unhappy
,
”
he
sighed
rather
than
uttered
.
She
looked
at
him
with
seriousness
.
“
I
do
not
think
our
separation
need
be
very
long
.
Papa
and
all
my
family
are
coming
to
me
in
September
to
pay
me
a
very
long
visit
.
I
really
do
not
see
why
you
should
not
come
too
.
”
Endymion’s
countenance
mantled
with
rapture
.
“
If
I
might
come
,
I
think
I
should
be
the
happiest
of
men
!
”
The
month
that
was
to
elapse
before
his
visit
,
Endymion
was
really
,
as
he
said
,
the
happiest
of
men
;
at
least
,
the
world
thought
him
so
.
He
seemed
to
walk
upon
tip-toe
.
Parliament
was
prorogued
,
office
was
consigned
to
permanent
secretaries
,
and
our
youthful
statesman
seemed
only
to
live
to
enjoy
,
and
add
to
,
the
revelry
of
existence
.
Now
at
Cowes
,
now
stalking
in
the
Highlands
,
dancing
at
balls
in
the
wilderness
,
and
running
races
of
fantastic
feats
,
full
of
health
,
and
frolic
,
and
charm
;
he
was
the
delight
of
society
,
while
,
the
whole
time
,
he
had
only
one
thought
,
and
that
was
the
sacred
day
when
he
should
again
see
the
being
whom
he
adored
,
and
that
in
her
beautiful
home
,
which
her
presence
made
more
lovely
.
Yes
!
he
was
again
at
Princedown
,
in
the
bosom
of
her
family
;
none
others
there
;
treated
like
one
of
themselves
.
The
courtly
father
pressed
his
hand
;
the
amiable
and
refined
mother
smiled
upon
him
;
the
daughters
,
pretty
,
and
natural
as
the
air
,
treated
him
as
if
they
were
sisters
,
and
even
the
eldest
son
,
who
generally
hates
you
,
after
a
little
stiffness
,
announced
in
a
tone
never
questioned
under
the
family
roof
,
that
“
Ferrars
was
a
first-rate
shot
.
”
And
so
a
month
rolled
on
;
immensely
happy
,
as
any
man
who
has
loved
,
and
loved
in
a
beautiful
scene
,
alone
can
understand
.
One
morning
Lady
Montfort
said
to
him
,
“
I
must
go
up
to
London
about
my
house
.
I
want
to
go
and
return
the
same
day
.
Do
you
know
,
I
think
you
had
better
come
with
me
?
You
shall
give
me
a
luncheon
in
Hill
Street
,
and
we
shall
be
back
by
the
last
train
.
It
will
be
late
,
but
we
shall
wake
in
the
morning
in
the
country
,
and
that
I
always
think
a
great
thing
.
”
And
so
it
happened
;
they
rose
early
and
arrived
in
town
in
time
to
give
them
a
tolerably
long
morning
.
She
took
him
to
her
house
in
Carlton
Gardens
,
and
showed
to
him
exactly
how
it
was
all
she
wanted
;
accommodation
for
a
first-rate
establishment
;
and
then
the
reception
rooms
,
few
houses
in
London
could
compare
with
them
;
a
gallery
and
three
saloons
.
Then
they
descended
to
the
dining-room
.
“
It
is
a
dining-room
,
not
a
banqueting
hall
,
”
she
said
,
“
which
we
had
at
Montfort
House
,
but
still
it
is
much
larger
than
most
dining-rooms
in
London
.
But
,
I
think
this
room
,
at
least
I
hope
you
do
,
quite
charming
,
”
and
she
took
him
to
a
room
almost
as
large
as
the
dining-room
,
and
looking
into
the
garden
.
It
was
fitted
up
with
exquisite
taste
;
calm
subdued
colouring
,
with
choice
marble
busts
of
statesmen
,
ancient
and
of
our
times
,
but
the
shelves
were
empty
.
“
They
are
empty
,
”
she
said
,
“
but
the
volumes
to
fill
them
are
already
collected
.
Yes
,
”
she
added
in
a
tremulous
voice
,
and
slightly
pressing
the
arm
on
which
she
leant
.
“
If
you
will
deign
to
accept
it
,
this
is
the
chamber
I
have
prepared
for
you
.
”
“
Dearest
of
women
!
”
and
he
took
her
hand
.
“
Yes
,
”
she
murmured
,
“
help
me
to
realise
the
dream
of
my
life
;
”
and
she
touched
his
forehead
with
her
lips
.
CHAPTER
XXXI
The
marriage
of
Mr.
Ferrars
with
Lady
Montfort
surprised
some
,
but
,
on
the
whole
,
pleased
everybody
.
They
were
both
of
them
popular
,
and
no
one
seemed
to
envy
them
their
happiness
and
prosperity
.
The
union
took
place
at
a
season
of
the
year
when
there
was
no
London
world
to
observe
and
to
criticise
.
It
was
a
quiet
ceremony
;
they
went
down
to
Northumberland
to
Lady
Montfort’s
father
,
and
they
were
married
in
his
private
chapel
.
After
that
they
went
off
immediately
to
pay
a
visit
to
King
Florestan
and
his
queen
;
Myra
had
sent
her
a
loving
letter
.
“
Perhaps
it
will
be
the
first
time
that
your
sister
ever
saw
me
with
satisfaction
,
”
remarked
Lady
Montfort
,
“
but
I
think
she
will
love
me
now
!
I
always
loved
her
;
perhaps
because
she
is
so
like
you
.
”
It
was
a
happy
meeting
and
a
delightful
visit
.
They
did
not
talk
much
of
the
past
.
The
enormous
change
in
the
position
of
their
host
and
hostess
since
the
first
days
of
their
acquaintance
,
and
,
on
their
own
part
,
some
indefinite
feeling
of
delicate
reserve
,
combined
to
make
them
rather
dwell
on
a
present
which
was
full
of
novelty
so
attractive
and
so
absorbing
.
In
his
manner
,
the
king
was
unchanged
;
he
was
never
a
demonstrative
person
,
but
simple
,
unaffected
,
rather
silent
;
with
a
sweet
temper
and
a
tender
manner
,
he
seemed
to
be
gratified
that
he
had
the
power
of
conferring
happiness
on
those
around
him
.
His
feeling
to
his
queen
was
one
of
idolatry
,
and
she
received
Berengaria
as
a
sister
and
a
much-loved
one
.
Their
presence
and
the
season
of
the
year
made
their
life
a
festival
,
and
when
they
parted
,
there
were
entreaties
and
promises
that
the
visit
should
be
often
repeated
.
“
Adieu
!
my
Endymion
,
”
said
Myra
at
the
last
moment
they
were
alone
.
“
All
has
happened
for
you
beyond
my
hopes
;
all
now
is
safe
.
I
might
wish
we
were
in
the
same
land
,
but
not
if
I
lost
my
husband
,
whom
I
adore
.
”
The
reason
that
forced
them
to
curtail
their
royal
visit
was
the
state
of
politics
at
home
,
which
had
suddenly
become
critical
.
There
were
symptoms
,
and
considerable
ones
,
of
disturbance
and
danger
when
they
departed
for
their
wedding
tour
,
but
they
could
not
prevail
on
themselves
to
sacrifice
a
visit
on
which
they
had
counted
so
much
,
and
which
could
not
be
fulfilled
on
another
occasion
under
the
same
interesting
circumstances
.
Besides
,
the
position
of
Mr.
Ferrars
,
though
an
important
,
was
a
subordinate
one
,
and
though
cabinet
ministers
were
not
justified
in
leaving
the
country
,
an
under-secretary
of
state
and
a
bridegroom
might
,
it
would
seem
,
depart
on
his
irresponsible
holiday
.
Mr.
Sidney
Wilton
,
however
,
shook
his
head
;
“
I
do
not
like
the
state
of
affairs
,
”
he
said
,
“
I
think
you
will
have
to
come
back
sooner
than
you
imagine
.
”
“
You
are
not
going
to
be
so
foolish
as
to
have
an
early
session
?
”
inquired
Lady
Montfort
.
He
only
shrugged
his
shoulders
,
and
said
,
“
We
are
in
a
mess
.
”
What
mess
?
and
what
was
the
state
of
affairs
?
This
had
happened
.
At
the
end
of
the
autumn
,
his
Holiness
the
Pope
had
made
half
a
dozen
new
cardinals
,
and
to
the
surprise
of
the
world
,
and
the
murmurs
of
the
Italians
,
there
appeared
among
them
the
name
of
an
Englishman
,
Nigel
Penruddock
,
archbishop
in
partibus
.
Shortly
after
this
,
a
papal
bull
,
“
given
at
St.
Peter’s
,
Rome
,
under
the
seal
of
the
fisherman
,
”
was
issued
,
establishing
a
Romish
hierarchy
in
England
.
This
was
soon
followed
by
a
pastoral
letter
by
the
new
cardinal
“
given
out
of
the
Appian
Gate
,
”
announcing
that
“
Catholic
England
had
been
restored
to
its
orbit
in
the
ecclesiastical
firmament
.
”
The
country
at
first
was
more
stupefied
than
alarmed
.
It
was
conscious
that
something
extraordinary
had
happened
,
and
some
great
action
taken
by
an
ecclesiastical
power
,
which
from
tradition
it
was
ever
inclined
to
view
with
suspicion
and
some
fear
.
But
it
held
its
breath
for
a
while
.
It
so
happened
that
the
prime
minister
was
a
member
of
a
great
house
which
had
become
illustrious
by
its
profession
of
Protestant
principles
,
and
even
by
its
sufferings
in
a
cause
which
England
had
once
looked
on
as
sacred
.
The
prime
minister
,
a
man
of
distinguished
ability
,
not
devoid
even
of
genius
,
was
also
a
wily
politician
,
and
of
almost
unrivalled
experience
in
the
management
of
political
parties
.
The
ministry
was
weak
and
nearly
worn
out
,
and
its
chief
,
influenced
partly
by
noble
and
historical
sentiments
,
partly
by
a
conviction
that
he
had
a
fine
occasion
to
rally
the
confidence
of
the
country
round
himself
and
his
friends
,
and
to
restore
the
repute
of
his
political
connection
,
thought
fit
,
without
consulting
his
colleagues
,
to
publish
a
manifesto
denouncing
the
aggression
of
the
Pope
upon
our
Protestantism
as
insolent
and
insidious
,
and
as
expressing
a
pretension
of
supremacy
over
the
realm
of
England
which
made
the
minister
indignant
.
A
confused
public
wanted
to
be
led
,
and
now
they
were
led
.
They
sprang
to
their
feet
like
an
armed
man
.
The
corporation
of
London
,
the
universities
of
Oxford
and
Cambridge
had
audiences
of
the
Queen
;
the
counties
met
,
the
municipalities
memorialised
;
before
the
first
of
January
there
had
been
held
nearly
seven
thousand
public
meetings
,
asserting
the
supremacy
of
the
Queen
and
calling
on
Her
Majesty’s
Government
to
vindicate
it
by
stringent
measures
.
Unfortunately
,
it
was
soon
discovered
by
the
minister
that
there
had
been
nothing
illegal
in
the
conduct
of
the
Pope
or
the
Cardinal
,
and
a
considerable
portion
of
the
Liberal
party
began
to
express
the
inconvenient
opinion
,
that
the
manifesto
of
their
chief
was
opposed
to
those
principles
of
civil
and
religious
liberty
of
which
he
was
the
hereditary
champion
.
Some
influential
members
of
his
own
cabinet
did
not
conceal
their
disapprobation
of
a
step
on
which
they
had
not
been
consulted
.
Immediately
after
Christmas
,
Endymion
and
Lady
Montfort
settled
in
London
.
She
was
anxious
to
open
her
new
mansion
as
soon
as
parliament
met
,
and
to
organise
continuous
receptions
.
She
looked
upon
the
ministry
as
in
a
critical
state
,
and
thought
it
was
an
occasion
when
social
influences
might
not
inconsiderably
assist
them
.
But
though
she
exhibited
for
this
object
her
wonted
energy
and
high
spirit
,
a
fine
observer
—
Mr.
Sidney
Wilton
,
for
example
—
might
have
detected
a
change
in
the
manner
of
Berengaria
.
Though
the
strength
of
her
character
was
unaltered
,
there
was
an
absence
of
that
restlessness
,
it
might
be
said
,
that
somewhat
feverish
excitement
,
from
which
formerly
she
was
not
always
free
.
The
truth
is
,
her
heart
was
satisfied
,
and
that
brought
repose
.
Feelings
of
affection
,
long
mortified
and
pent
up
,
were
now
lavished
and
concentrated
on
a
husband
of
her
heart
and
adoration
,
and
she
was
proud
that
his
success
and
greatness
might
be
avowed
as
the
objects
of
her
life
.
The
campaign
,
however
,
for
which
such
preparations
were
made
,
ended
almost
before
it
began
.
The
ministry
,
on
the
meeting
of
parliament
,
found
themselves
with
a
discontented
House
of
Commons
,
and
discordant
counsels
among
themselves
.
The
anti-papal
manifesto
was
the
secret
cause
of
this
evil
state
,
but
the
prime
minister
,
to
avoid
such
a
mortifying
admission
,
took
advantage
of
two
unfavourable
divisions
on
other
matters
,
and
resigned
.
Here
was
a
crisis
—
another
crisis
!
Could
the
untried
Protectionists
,
without
men
,
form
an
administration
?
It
was
whispered
that
Lord
Derby
had
been
sent
for
,
and
declined
the
attempt
.
Then
there
was
another
rumour
,
that
he
was
going
to
try
.
Mr.
Bertie
Tremaine
looked
mysterious
.
The
time
for
the
third
party
had
clearly
arrived
.
It
was
known
that
he
had
the
list
of
the
next
ministry
in
his
breast-pocket
,
but
it
was
only
shown
to
Mr.
Tremaine
Bertie
,
who
confided
in
secrecy
to
the
initiated
that
it
was
the
strongest
government
since
“
All
the
Talents
.
”
Notwithstanding
this
great
opportunity
,
“
All
the
Talents
”
were
not
summoned
.
The
leader
of
the
Protectionists
renounced
the
attempt
in
despair
,
and
the
author
of
the
anti-papal
manifesto
was
again
sent
for
,
and
obliged
to
introduce
the
measure
which
had
already
destroyed
a
government
and
disorganised
a
party
.
“
Sidney
Wilton
,
”
said
Lady
Montfort
to
her
husband
,
“
says
that
they
are
in
the
mud
,
and
he
for
one
will
not
go
back
—
but
he
will
go
.
I
know
him
.
He
is
too
soft-hearted
to
stand
an
appeal
from
colleagues
in
distress
.
But
were
I
you
,
Endymion
,
I
would
not
return
.
I
think
you
want
a
little
rest
,
or
you
have
got
a
great
deal
of
private
business
to
attend
to
,
or
something
of
that
kind
.
Nobody
notices
the
withdrawal
of
an
under-secretary
except
those
in
office
.
There
is
no
necessity
why
you
should
be
in
the
mud
.
I
will
continue
to
receive
,
and
do
everything
that
is
possible
for
our
friends
,
but
I
think
my
husband
has
been
an
under-secretary
long
enough
.
”
Endymion
quite
agreed
with
his
wife
.
The
minister
offered
him
preferment
and
the
Privy
Council
,
but
Lady
Montfort
said
it
was
really
not
so
important
as
the
office
he
had
resigned
.
She
was
resolved
that
he
should
not
return
to
them
,
and
she
had
her
way
.
Ferrars
himself
now
occupied
a
rather
peculiar
position
,
being
the
master
of
a
great
fortune
and
of
an
establishment
which
was
the
headquarters
of
the
party
of
which
he
was
now
only
a
private
member
;
but
,
calm
and
collected
,
he
did
not
lose
his
head
;
always
said
and
did
the
right
thing
,
and
never
forgot
his
early
acquaintances
.
Trenchard
was
his
bosom
political
friend
.
Seymour
Hicks
,
who
,
through
Endymion’s
kindness
,
had
now
got
into
the
Treasury
,
and
was
quite
fashionable
,
had
the
run
of
the
House
,
and
made
himself
marvellously
useful
,
while
St.
Barbe
,
who
had
become
by
mistake
a
member
of
the
Conservative
Club
,
drank
his
frequent
claret
cup
every
Saturday
evening
at
Lady
Montfort’s
receptions
with
many
pledges
to
the
welfare
of
the
Liberal
administration
.
The
flag
of
the
Tory
party
waved
over
the
magnificent
mansion
of
which
Imogene
Beaumaris
was
the
graceful
life
.
As
parties
were
nearly
equal
,
and
the
ministry
was
supposed
to
be
in
decay
,
the
rival
reception
was
as
well
attended
as
that
of
Berengaria
.
The
two
great
leaders
were
friends
,
intimate
,
but
not
perhaps
quite
so
intimate
as
a
few
years
before
.
“
Lady
Montfort
is
very
kind
to
me
,
”
Imogene
would
say
,
“
but
I
do
not
think
she
now
quite
remembers
we
are
cousins
.
”
Both
Lord
and
Lady
Waldershare
seemed
equally
devoted
to
Lady
Beaumaris
.
“
I
do
not
think
,
”
he
would
say
,
“
that
I
shall
ever
get
Adriana
to
receive
.
It
is
an
organic
gift
,
and
very
rare
.
What
I
mean
to
do
is
to
have
a
first-rate
villa
and
give
the
party
strawberries
.
I
always
say
Adriana
is
like
Nell
Gwyn
,
and
she
shall
go
about
with
a
pottle
.
One
never
sees
a
pottle
of
strawberries
now
.
I
believe
they
went
out
,
like
all
good
things
,
with
the
Stuarts
.
”
And
so
,
after
all
these
considerable
events
,
the
season
rolled
on
and
closed
tranquilly
.
Lord
and
Lady
Hainault
continued
to
give
banquets
,
over
which
the
hostess
sighed
;
Sir
Peter
Vigo
had
the
wisdom
to
retain
his
millions
,
which
few
manage
to
do
,
as
it
is
admitted
that
it
is
easier
to
make
a
fortune
than
to
keep
one
.
Mrs.
Rodney
,
supremely
habited
,
still
drove
her
ponies
,
looking
younger
and
prettier
than
ever
,
and
getting
more
fashionable
every
day
,
and
Mr.
Ferrars
and
Berengaria
,
Countess
of
Montfort
,
retired
in
the
summer
to
their
beautiful
and
beloved
Princedown
.
CHAPTER
XXXII
Although
the
past
life
of
Endymion
had
,
on
the
whole
,
been
a
happy
life
,
and
although
he
was
destined
also
to
a
happy
future
,
perhaps
the
four
years
which
elapsed
from
the
time
he
quitted
office
,
certainly
in
his
experience
had
never
been
exceeded
,
and
it
was
difficult
to
imagine
could
be
exceeded
,
in
felicity
.
He
had
a
great
interest
,
and
even
growing
influence
in
public
life
without
any
of
its
cares
;
he
was
united
to
a
woman
whom
he
had
long
passionately
loved
,
and
who
had
every
quality
and
a
fortune
which
secured
him
all
those
advantages
which
are
appreciated
by
men
of
taste
and
generosity
.
He
became
a
father
,
and
a
family
name
which
had
been
originally
borne
by
a
courtier
of
the
elder
Stuarts
was
now
bestowed
on
the
future
lord
of
Princedown
.
Lady
Montfort
herself
had
no
thought
but
her
husband
.
His
happiness
,
his
enjoyment
of
existence
,
his
success
and
power
in
life
,
entirely
absorbed
her
.
The
anxiety
which
she
felt
that
in
everything
he
should
be
master
was
touching
.
Once
looked
upon
as
the
most
imperious
of
women
,
she
would
not
give
a
direction
on
any
matter
without
his
opinion
and
sanction
.
One
would
have
supposed
from
what
might
be
observed
under
their
roof
,
that
she
was
some
beautiful
but
portionless
maiden
whom
Endymion
had
raised
to
wealth
and
power
.
All
this
time
,
however
,
Lady
Montfort
sedulously
maintained
that
commanding
position
in
social
politics
for
which
she
was
singularly
fitted
.
Indeed
,
in
that
respect
,
she
had
no
rival
.
She
received
the
world
with
the
same
constancy
and
splendour
,
as
if
she
were
the
wife
of
a
minister
.
Animated
by
Waldershare
,
Lady
Beaumaris
maintained
in
this
respect
a
certain
degree
of
rivalry
.
She
was
the
only
hope
and
refuge
of
the
Tories
,
and
rich
,
attractive
,
and
popular
,
her
competition
could
not
be
disregarded
.
But
Lord
Beaumaris
was
a
little
freakish
.
Sometimes
he
would
sail
in
his
yacht
to
odd
places
,
and
was
at
Algiers
or
in
Egypt
when
,
according
to
Tadpole
,
he
ought
to
have
been
at
Piccadilly
Terrace
.
Then
he
occasionally
got
crusty
about
his
hunting
.
He
would
hunt
,
whatever
were
the
political
consequences
,
but
whether
he
were
in
Africa
or
Leicestershire
,
Imogene
must
be
with
him
.
He
could
not
exist
without
her
constant
presence
.
There
was
something
in
her
gentleness
,
combined
with
her
quick
and
ready
sympathy
and
playfulness
of
mind
and
manner
,
which
alike
pleased
and
soothed
his
life
.
The
Whigs
tottered
on
for
a
year
after
the
rude
assault
of
Cardinal
Penruddock
,
but
they
were
doomed
,
and
the
Protectionists
were
called
upon
to
form
an
administration
.
As
they
had
no
one
in
their
ranks
who
had
ever
been
in
office
except
their
chief
,
who
was
in
the
House
of
Lords
,
the
affair
seemed
impossible
.
The
attempt
,
however
,
could
not
be
avoided
.
A
dozen
men
,
without
the
slightest
experience
of
official
life
,
had
to
be
sworn
in
as
privy
councillors
,
before
even
they
could
receive
the
seals
and
insignia
of
their
intended
offices
.
On
their
knees
,
according
to
the
constitutional
custom
,
a
dozen
men
,
all
in
the
act
of
genuflexion
at
the
same
moment
,
and
headed
,
too
,
by
one
of
the
most
powerful
peers
in
the
country
,
the
Lord
of
Alnwick
Castle
himself
,
humbled
themselves
before
a
female
Sovereign
,
who
looked
serene
and
imperturbable
before
a
spectacle
never
seen
before
,
and
which
,
in
all
probability
,
will
never
be
seen
again
.
One
of
this
band
,
a
gentleman
without
any
official
experience
whatever
,
was
not
only
placed
in
the
cabinet
,
but
was
absolutely
required
to
become
the
leader
of
the
House
of
Commons
,
which
had
never
occurred
before
,
except
in
the
instance
of
Mr.
Pitt
in
1782.
It
has
been
said
that
it
was
unwise
in
the
Protectionists
assuming
office
when
,
on
this
occasion
and
on
subsequent
ones
,
they
were
far
from
being
certain
of
a
majority
in
the
House
of
Commons
.
It
should
,
however
,
be
remembered
,
that
unless
they
had
dared
these
ventures
,
they
never
could
have
formed
a
body
of
men
competent
,
from
their
official
experience
and
their
practice
in
debate
,
to
form
a
ministry
.
The
result
has
rather
proved
that
they
were
right
.
Had
they
continued
to
refrain
from
incurring
responsibility
,
they
must
have
broken
up
and
merged
in
different
connections
,
which
,
for
a
party
numerically
so
strong
as
the
Protectionists
,
would
have
been
a
sorry
business
,
and
probably
have
led
to
disastrous
results
.
Mr.
Bertie
Tremaine
having
been
requested
to
call
on
the
Protectionist
prime
minister
,
accordingly
repaired
to
headquarters
with
the
list
of
his
colleagues
in
his
pocket
.
He
was
offered
for
himself
a
post
of
little
real
importance
,
but
which
secured
to
him
the
dignity
of
the
privy
council
.
Mr.
Tremaine
Bertie
and
several
of
his
friends
had
assembled
at
his
house
,
awaiting
with
anxiety
his
return
.
He
had
to
communicate
to
them
that
he
had
been
offered
a
privy
councillor’s
post
,
and
to
break
to
them
that
it
was
not
proposed
to
provide
for
any
other
member
of
his
party
.
Their
indignation
was
extreme
;
but
they
naturally
supposed
that
he
had
rejected
the
offer
to
himself
with
becoming
scorn
.
Their
leader
,
however
,
informed
them
that
he
had
not
felt
it
his
duty
to
be
so
peremptory
.
They
should
remember
that
the
recognition
of
their
political
status
by
such
an
offer
to
their
chief
was
a
considerable
event
.
For
his
part
,
he
had
for
some
time
been
painfully
aware
that
the
influence
of
the
House
of
Commons
in
the
constitutional
scheme
was
fast
waning
,
and
that
the
plan
of
Sir
William
Temple
for
the
reorganisation
of
the
privy
council
,
and
depositing
in
it
the
real
authority
of
the
State
,
was
that
to
which
we
should
be
obliged
to
have
recourse
.
This
offer
to
him
of
a
seat
in
the
council
was
,
perhaps
,
the
beginning
of
the
end
.
It
was
a
crisis
;
they
must
look
to
seats
in
the
privy
council
,
which
,
under
Sir
William
Temple’s
plan
,
would
be
accompanied
with
ministerial
duties
and
salaries
.
What
they
had
all
,
at
one
time
,
wished
,
had
not
exactly
been
accomplished
,
but
he
had
felt
it
his
duty
to
his
friends
not
to
shrink
from
responsibility
.
So
he
had
accepted
the
minister’s
offer
.
Mr.
Bertie
Tremaine
was
not
long
in
the
busy
enjoyment
of
his
easy
post
.
Then
the
country
was
governed
for
two
years
by
all
its
ablest
men
,
who
,
by
the
end
of
that
term
,
had
succeeded
,
by
their
coalesced
genius
,
in
reducing
that
country
to
a
state
of
desolation
and
despair
.
“
I
did
not
think
it
would
have
lasted
even
so
long
,
”
said
Lady
Montfort
;
“
but
then
I
was
acquainted
with
their
mutual
hatreds
and
their
characteristic
weaknesses
.
What
is
to
happen
now
?
Somebody
must
be
found
of
commanding
private
character
and
position
,
and
with
as
little
damaged
a
public
one
as
in
this
wreck
of
reputations
is
possible
.
I
see
nobody
but
Sidney
Wilton
.
Everybody
likes
him
,
and
he
is
the
only
man
who
could
bring
people
together
.
”
And
everybody
seemed
to
be
saying
the
same
thing
at
the
same
time
.
The
name
of
Sidney
Wilton
was
in
everybody’s
mouth
.
It
was
unfortunate
that
he
had
been
a
member
of
a
defunct
ministry
,
but
then
it
had
always
been
understood
that
he
had
always
disapproved
of
all
their
measures
.
There
was
not
the
slightest
evidence
of
this
,
but
everybody
chose
to
believe
it
.
Sidney
Wilton
was
chagrined
with
life
,
and
had
become
a
martyr
to
the
gout
,
which
that
chagrin
had
aggravated
;
but
he
was
a
great
gentleman
,
and
too
chivalric
to
refuse
a
royal
command
when
the
Sovereign
was
in
distress
.
Sidney
Wilton
became
Premier
,
and
the
first
colleague
he
recommended
to
fill
the
most
important
post
after
his
own
,
the
Secretaryship
of
State
for
Foreign
Affairs
,
was
Mr.
Ferrars
.
“
It
ought
to
last
ten
years
,
”
said
Lady
Montfort
.
“
I
see
no
danger
except
his
health
.
I
never
knew
a
man
so
changed
.
At
his
time
of
life
five
years
ought
to
make
no
difference
in
a
man
.
I
cannot
believe
he
is
the
person
who
used
to
give
us
those
charming
parties
at
Gaydene
.
Whatever
you
may
say
,
Endymion
,
I
feel
convinced
that
something
must
have
passed
between
your
sister
and
him
.
Neither
of
them
ever
gave
me
a
hint
of
such
a
matter
,
or
of
the
possibility
of
its
ever
happening
,
but
feminine
instinct
assures
me
that
something
took
place
.
He
always
had
the
gout
,
and
his
ancestors
have
had
the
gout
for
a
couple
of
centuries
;
and
all
prime
ministers
have
the
gout
.
I
dare
say
you
will
not
escape
,
darling
,
but
I
hope
it
will
never
make
you
look
as
if
you
had
just
lost
paradise
,
or
,
what
would
be
worst
,
become
the
last
man
.
”
Lady
Montfort
was
right
.
The
ministry
was
strong
and
it
was
popular
.
There
were
no
jealousies
in
it
;
every
member
was
devoted
to
his
chief
,
and
felt
that
he
was
rightly
the
chief
,
whereas
,
as
Lady
Montfort
said
,
the
Whigs
never
had
a
ministry
before
in
which
there
were
not
at
least
a
couple
of
men
who
had
been
prime
ministers
,
and
as
many
more
who
thought
they
ought
to
be
.
There
were
years
of
war
,
and
of
vast
and
critical
negotiations
.
Ferrars
was
equal
to
the
duties
,
for
he
had
much
experience
,
and
more
thought
,
and
he
was
greatly
aided
by
the
knowledge
of
affairs
,
and
the
clear
and
tranquil
judgment
of
the
chief
minister
.
There
was
only
one
subject
on
which
there
was
not
between
them
that
complete
and
cordial
unanimity
which
was
so
agreeable
and
satisfactory
.
And
even
in
this
case
,
there
was
no
difference
of
opinion
,
but
rather
of
sentiment
and
feeling
.
It
was
when
Prince
Florestan
expressed
his
desire
to
join
the
grand
alliance
,
and
become
our
active
military
ally
.
It
was
perhaps
impossible
,
under
any
circumstances
,
for
the
Powers
to
refuse
such
an
offer
,
but
Endymion
was
strongly
in
favour
of
accepting
it
.
It
consolidated
our
interests
in
a
part
of
Europe
where
we
required
sympathy
and
support
,
and
it
secured
for
us
the
aid
and
influence
of
the
great
Liberal
party
of
the
continent
as
distinguished
from
the
secret
societies
and
the
socialist
republicans
.
The
Count
of
Ferroll
,
also
,
whose
opinion
weighed
much
with
Her
Majesty’s
Government
,
was
decidedly
in
favour
of
the
combination
.
The
English
prime
minister
listened
to
their
representations
frigidly
;
it
was
difficult
to
refute
the
arguments
which
were
adverse
to
his
own
feelings
,
and
to
resist
the
unanimous
opinion
not
only
of
his
colleagues
,
but
of
our
allies
.
But
he
was
cold
and
silent
,
or
made
discouraging
remarks
.
“
Can
you
trust
him
?
”
he
would
say
.
“
Remember
he
himself
has
been
,
and
still
is
,
a
member
of
the
very
secret
societies
whose
baneful
influence
we
are
now
told
he
will
neutralise
or
subdue
.
Whatever
the
cabinet
decides
,
and
I
fear
that
with
this
strong
expression
of
opinion
on
the
part
of
our
allies
we
have
little
option
left
,
remember
I
gave
you
my
warning
.
I
know
the
gentleman
,
and
I
do
not
trust
him
.
”
After
this
,
the
prime
minister
had
a
most
severe
attack
of
the
gout
,
remained
for
weeks
at
Gaydene
,
and
saw
no
one
on
business
except
Endymion
and
Baron
Sergius
.
While
the
time
is
elapsing
which
can
alone
decide
whether
the
distrust
of
Mr.
Wilton
were
well-founded
or
the
reverse
,
let
us
see
how
the
world
is
treating
the
rest
of
our
friends
.
Lord
Waldershare
did
not
make
such
a
pattern
husband
as
Endymion
,
but
he
made
a
much
better
one
than
the
world
ever
supposed
he
would
.
Had
he
married
Berengaria
,
the
failure
would
have
been
great
;
but
he
was
united
to
a
being
capable
of
deep
affection
and
very
sensitive
,
yet
grateful
for
kindness
from
a
husband
to
a
degree
not
easily
imaginable
.
And
Waldershare
had
really
a
good
heart
,
though
a
bad
temper
,
and
he
was
a
gentleman
.
Besides
,
he
had
a
great
admiration
and
some
awe
of
his
father-in-law
,
and
Lord
Hainault
,
with
his
good-natured
irony
,
and
consummate
knowledge
of
men
and
things
,
quite
controlled
him
.
With
Lady
Hainault
he
was
a
favourite
.
He
invented
plausible
theories
and
brilliant
paradoxes
for
her
,
which
left
her
always
in
a
state
of
charmed
wonder
,
and
when
she
met
him
again
,
and
adopted
or
refuted
them
,
for
her
intellectual
power
was
considerable
,
he
furnished
her
with
fresh
dogmas
and
tenets
,
which
immediately
interested
her
intelligence
,
though
she
generally
forgot
to
observe
that
they
were
contrary
to
the
views
and
principles
of
the
last
visit
.
Between
Adriana
and
Imogene
there
was
a
close
alliance
,
and
Lady
Beaumaris
did
everything
in
her
power
to
develop
Lady
Waldershare
advantageously
before
her
husband
;
and
so
,
not
forgetting
that
Waldershare
,
with
his
romance
,
and
imagination
,
and
fancy
,
and
taste
,
and
caprice
,
had
a
considerable
element
of
worldliness
in
his
character
,
and
that
he
liked
to
feel
that
,
from
living
in
lodgings
,
he
had
become
a
Monte
Cristo
,
his
union
with
Adriana
may
be
said
to
be
a
happy
and
successful
one
.
The
friendship
between
Sir
Peter
Vigo
and
his
brother
M.P.
,
Mr.
Rodney
,
never
diminished
,
and
Mr.
Rodney
became
richer
every
year
.
He
experienced
considerable
remorse
at
sitting
in
opposition
to
the
son
of
his
right
honourable
friend
,
the
late
William
Pitt
Ferrars
,
and
frequently
consulted
Sir
Peter
on
his
embarrassment
and
difficulty
.
Sir
Peter
,
who
never
declined
arranging
any
difficulty
,
told
his
friend
to
be
easy
,
and
that
he
,
Sir
Peter
,
saw
his
way
.
It
became
gradually
understood
,
that
if
ever
the
government
was
in
difficulties
,
Mr.
Rodney’s
vote
might
be
counted
on
.
He
was
peculiarly
situated
,
for
,
in
a
certain
sense
,
his
friend
the
Right
Honourable
William
Pitt
Ferrars
had
entrusted
the
guardianship
of
his
child
to
his
care
.
But
whenever
the
ministry
was
not
in
danger
,
the
ministry
must
not
depend
upon
his
vote
.
Trenchard
had
become
Secretary
of
the
Treasury
in
the
Wilton
administration
,
had
established
his
reputation
,
and
was
looked
upon
as
a
future
minister
.
Jawett
,
without
forfeiting
his
post
and
promotion
at
Somerset
House
,
had
become
the
editor
of
a
new
periodical
magazine
,
called
the
“
Privy
Council
.
”
It
was
established
and
maintained
by
Mr.
Bertie
Tremaine
,
and
was
chiefly
written
by
that
gentleman
himself
.
It
was
full
of
Greek
quotations
,
to
show
that
it
was
not
Grub
Street
,
and
written
in
a
style
as
like
that
of
Sir
William
Temple
,
as
a
paper
in
“
Rejected
Addresses
”
might
resemble
the
classic
lucubrations
of
the
statesman-sage
who
,
it
is
hoped
,
will
be
always
remembered
by
a
grateful
country
for
having
introduced
into
these
islands
the
Moor
Park
apricot
.
What
the
pages
of
the
“
Privy
Council
”
meant
no
human
being
had
the
slightest
conception
except
Mr.
Tremaine
Bertie
.
Mr.
Thornberry
remained
a
respected
member
of
the
cabinet
.
It
was
thought
his
presence
there
secured
the
sympathies
of
advanced
Liberalism
throughout
the
country
;
but
that
was
a
tradition
rather
than
a
fact
.
Statesmen
in
high
places
are
not
always
so
well
acquainted
with
the
changes
and
gradations
of
opinion
in
political
parties
at
home
as
they
are
with
those
abroad
.
We
hardly
mark
the
growth
of
the
tree
we
see
every
day
.
Mr.
Thornberry
had
long
ceased
to
be
popular
with
his
former
friends
,
and
the
fact
that
he
had
become
a
minister
was
one
of
the
causes
of
this
change
of
feeling
.
That
was
unreasonable
,
but
in
politics
unreasonable
circumstances
are
elements
of
the
problem
to
be
solved
.
It
was
generally
understood
that
,
on
the
next
election
,
Mr.
Thornberry
would
have
to
look
out
for
another
seat
;
his
chief
constituents
,
those
who
are
locally
styled
the
leaders
of
the
party
,
were
still
faithful
to
him
,
for
they
were
proud
of
having
a
cabinet
minister
for
their
member
,
to
be
presented
by
him
at
court
,
and
occasionally
to
dine
with
him
;
but
the
“
masses
,
”
who
do
not
go
to
court
,
and
are
never
asked
to
dinner
,
required
a
member
who
would
represent
their
whims
,
and
it
was
quite
understood
that
,
on
the
very
first
occasion
,
this
enlightened
community
had
resolved
to
send
up
to
Westminster
—
Mr.
Enoch
Craggs
.
It
is
difficult
to
say
,
whether
in
his
private
life
Job
found
affairs
altogether
more
satisfactory
than
in
his
public
.
His
wife
had
joined
the
Roman
Communion
.
An
ingrained
perverseness
which
prevented
his
son
from
ever
willingly
following
the
advice
or
example
of
his
parents
,
had
preserved
John
Hampden
in
the
Anglican
faith
,
but
he
had
portraits
of
Laud
and
Strafford
over
his
mantelpiece
,
and
embossed
in
golden
letters
on
a
purple
ground
the
magical
word
“
THOROUGH
.
”
His
library
chiefly
consisted
of
the
“
Tracts
for
the
Times
,
”
and
a
colossal
edition
of
the
Fathers
gorgeously
bound
.
He
was
a
very
clever
fellow
,
this
young
Thornberry
,
a
natural
orator
,
and
was
leader
of
the
High
Church
party
in
the
Oxford
Union
.
He
brought
home
his
friends
occasionally
to
Hurstley
,
and
Job
had
the
opportunity
of
becoming
acquainted
with
a
class
and
school
of
humanity
—
with
which
,
notwithstanding
his
considerable
experience
of
life
,
he
had
no
previous
knowledge
—
young
gentlemen
,
apparently
half-starved
and
dressed
like
priests
,
and
sometimes
an
enthusiastic
young
noble
,
in
much
better
physical
condition
,
and
in
costume
becoming
a
cavalier
,
ready
to
raise
the
royal
standard
at
Edgehill
.
What
a
little
annoyed
Job
was
that
his
son
always
addressed
him
as
“
Squire
,
”
a
habit
even
pedantically
followed
by
his
companions
.
He
was
,
however
,
justly
entitled
to
this
ancient
and
reputable
honour
,
for
Job
had
been
persuaded
to
purchase
Hurstley
,
was
a
lord
of
several
thousand
acres
,
and
had
the
boar’s
head
carried
in
procession
at
Christmas
in
his
ancient
hall
.
It
is
strange
,
but
he
was
rather
perplexed
than
annoyed
by
all
these
marvellous
metamorphoses
in
his
life
and
family
.
His
intelligence
was
as
clear
as
ever
,
and
his
views
on
all
subjects
unchanged
;
but
he
was
,
like
many
other
men
