Montfortwas
only
amusing
himself
;
a
new
character
was
to
him
a
new
toy
,
and
when
he
could
not
find
one
,
he
would
dip
into
the
“
Memoirs
of
St.
Simon
.
”
Instead
of
avoiding
society
,
as
was
his
wont
in
the
old
days
,
the
Archbishop
sought
it
.
And
there
was
nothing
exclusive
in
his
social
habits
;
all
classes
and
all
creeds
,
all
conditions
and
orders
of
men
,
were
alike
interesting
to
him
;
they
were
part
of
the
mighty
community
,
with
all
whose
pursuits
,
and
passions
,
and
interests
,
and
occupations
he
seemed
to
sympathise
,
but
respecting
which
he
had
only
one
object
—
to
bring
them
back
once
more
to
that
imperial
fold
from
which
,
in
an
hour
of
darkness
and
distraction
,
they
had
miserably
wandered
.
The
conversion
of
England
was
deeply
engraven
on
the
heart
of
Penruddock
;
it
was
his
constant
purpose
,
and
his
daily
and
nightly
prayer
.
So
the
Archbishop
was
seen
everywhere
,
even
at
fashionable
assemblies
.
He
was
a
frequent
guest
at
banquets
which
he
never
tasted
,
for
he
was
a
smiling
ascetic
,
and
though
he
seemed
to
be
preaching
or
celebrating
high
mass
in
every
part
of
the
metropolis
,
organising
schools
,
establishing
convents
,
and
building
cathedrals
,
he
could
find
time
to
move
philanthropic
resolutions
at
middle-class
meetings
,
attend
learned
associations
,
and
even
occasionally
send
a
paper
to
the
Royal
Society
.
The
person
who
fell
most
under
the
influence
of
the
archbishop
was
Waldershare
.
He
was
fairly
captivated
by
him
.
Nothing
would
satisfy
Waldershare
till
he
had
brought
the
archbishop
and
Prince
Florestan
together
.
“
You
are
a
Roman
Catholic
prince
,
sir
,
”
he
would
say
.
“
It
is
absolute
folly
to
forego
such
a
source
of
influence
and
power
as
the
Roman
Catholic
Church
.
Here
is
your
man
;
a
man
made
for
the
occasion
,
a
man
who
may
be
pope
.
Come
to
an
understanding
with
him
,
and
I
believe
you
will
regain
your
throne
in
a
year
.
”
“
But
,
my
dear
Waldershare
,
it
is
very
true
I
am
a
Roman
Catholic
,
but
I
am
also
the
head
of
the
Liberal
party
in
my
country
,
and
perhaps
also
on
the
continent
of
Europe
,
and
they
are
not
particularly
affected
to
archbishops
and
popes
.
”
“
Old-fashioned
twaddle
of
the
Liberal
party
,
”
exclaimed
Waldershare
.
“
There
is
more
true
democracy
in
the
Roman
Catholic
Church
than
in
all
the
secret
societies
of
Europe
.
”
“
There
is
something
in
that
,
”
said
the
prince
musingly
,
“
and
my
friends
are
Roman
Catholics
,
nominally
Roman
Catholics
.
If
I
were
quite
sure
your
man
and
the
priests
generally
were
nominally
Roman
Catholics
,
something
might
be
done
.
”
“
As
for
that
,
”
said
Waldershare
,
“
sensible
men
are
all
of
the
same
religion
.
”
“
And
pray
what
is
that
?
”
inquired
the
prince
.
“
Sensible
men
never
tell
.
”
Perhaps
there
was
no
family
which
suited
him
more
,
and
where
the
archbishop
became
more
intimate
,
than
the
Neuchatels
.
He
very
much
valued
a
visit
to
Hainault
,
and
the
miscellaneous
and
influential
circles
he
met
there
—
merchant
princes
,
and
great
powers
of
Lombard
Street
and
the
Stock
Exchange
.
The
Governor
of
the
Bank
happened
to
be
a
high
churchman
,
and
listened
to
the
archbishop
with
evident
relish
.
Mrs.
Neuchatel
also
acknowledged
the
spell
of
his
society
,
and
he
quite
agreed
with
her
that
people
should
be
neither
so
poor
nor
so
rich
.
She
had
long
mused
over
plans
of
social
amelioration
,
and
her
new
ally
was
to
teach
her
how
to
carry
them
into
practice
.
As
for
Mr.
Neuchatel
,
he
was
pleased
that
his
wife
was
amused
,
and
liked
the
archbishop
as
he
liked
all
clever
men
.
“
You
know
,
”
he
would
say
,
“
I
am
in
favour
of
all
churches
,
provided
,
my
lord
archbishop
,
they
do
not
do
anything
very
foolish
.
Eh
?
So
I
shall
subscribe
to
your
schools
with
great
pleasure
.
We
cannot
have
too
many
schools
,
even
if
they
only
keep
young
people
from
doing
mischief
.
”
CHAPTER
XIV
The
prosperity
of
the
country
was
so
signal
,
while
Mr.
Vigo
was
unceasingly
directing
millions
of
our
accumulated
capital
,
and
promises
of
still
more
,
into
the
“
new
channel
,
”
that
it
seemed
beyond
belief
that
any
change
of
administration
could
even
occur
,
at
least
in
the
experience
of
the
existing
generation
.
The
minister
to
whose
happy
destiny
it
had
fallen
to
gratify
the
large
appetites
and
reckless
consuming
powers
of
a
class
now
first
known
in
our
social
hierarchy
as
“
Navvies
,
”
was
hailed
as
a
second
Pitt
.
The
countenance
of
the
opposition
was
habitually
dejected
,
with
the
exception
of
those
members
of
it
on
whom
Mr.
Vigo
graciously
conferred
shares
,
and
Lady
Montfort
taunted
Mr.
Sidney
Wilton
with
inquiries
,
why
he
and
his
friends
had
not
made
railroads
,
instead
of
inventing
nonsense
about
cheap
bread
.
Job
Thornberry
made
wonderful
speeches
in
favour
of
total
and
immediate
repeal
of
the
corn
laws
,
and
the
Liberal
party
,
while
they
cheered
him
,
privately
expressed
their
regret
that
such
a
capital
speaker
,
who
might
be
anything
,
was
not
a
practical
man
.
Low
prices
,
abundant
harvests
,
and
a
thriving
commerce
had
rendered
all
appeals
,
varied
even
by
the
persuasive
ingenuity
of
Thornberry
,
a
wearisome
irritation
;
and
,
though
the
League
had
transplanted
itself
from
Manchester
to
the
metropolis
,
and
hired
theatres
for
their
rhetoric
,
the
close
of
1845
found
them
nearly
reduced
to
silence
.
Mr.
Bertie
Tremaine
,
who
was
always
studying
the
spirit
of
the
age
,
announced
to
the
initiated
that
Mr.
Vigo
had
something
of
the
character
and
structure
of
Napoleon
,
and
that
he
himself
began
to
believe
,
that
an
insular
nation
,
with
such
an
enormous
appetite
,
was
not
adapted
to
cosmopolitan
principles
,
which
were
naturally
of
a
character
more
spiritual
and
abstract
.
Mr.
Bertie
Tremaine
asked
Mr.
Vigo
to
dinner
,
and
introduced
him
to
several
distinguished
youths
of
extreme
opinions
,
who
were
dining
off
gold
plate
.
Mr.
Vigo
was
much
flattered
by
his
visit
;
his
host
made
much
of
him
;
and
he
heard
many
things
on
the
principles
of
government
,
and
even
of
society
,
in
the
largest
sense
of
the
expression
,
which
astonished
and
amused
him
.
In
the
course
of
the
evening
he
varied
the
conversation
—
one
which
became
the
classic
library
and
busts
of
the
surrounding
statesmen
—
by
promising
to
most
of
the
guests
allotments
of
shares
in
a
new
company
,
not
yet
launched
,
but
whose
securities
were
already
at
a
high
premium
.
Endymion
,
in
the
meantime
,
pursued
the
even
tenor
of
his
way
.
Guided
by
the
experience
,
unrivalled
knowledge
,
and
consummate
tact
of
Lord
Roehampton
,
he
habitually
made
inquiries
,
or
brought
forward
motions
,
which
were
evidently
inconvenient
or
embarrassing
to
the
ministry
;
and
the
very
circumstance
,
that
he
was
almost
always
replied
to
by
the
prime
minister
,
elevated
him
in
the
estimation
of
the
House
as
much
as
the
pertinence
of
his
questions
,
and
the
accurate
information
on
which
he
founded
his
motions
.
He
had
not
taken
the
House
with
a
rush
like
Job
Thornberry
,
but
,
at
the
end
of
three
sessions
,
he
was
a
personage
universally
looked
upon
as
one
who
was
“
certain
to
have
office
.
”
There
was
another
new
member
who
had
also
made
way
,
though
slowly
,
and
that
was
Mr.
Trenchard
;
he
had
distinguished
himself
on
a
difficult
committee
,
on
which
he
had
guided
a
perplexed
minister
,
who
was
chairman
,
through
many
intricacies
.
Mr.
Trenchard
watched
the
operations
of
Mr.
Vigo
,
with
a
calm
,
cold
scrutiny
,
and
ventured
one
day
to
impart
his
conviction
to
Endymion
that
there
were
breakers
ahead
.
“
Vigo
is
exhausting
the
floating
capital
of
the
country
,
”
he
said
,
and
he
offered
to
give
him
all
the
necessary
details
,
if
he
would
call
the
attention
of
the
House
to
the
matter
.
Endymion
declined
to
do
this
,
chiefly
because
he
wished
to
devote
himself
to
foreign
affairs
,
and
thought
the
House
would
hardly
brook
his
interference
also
in
finance
.
So
he
strongly
advised
Trenchard
himself
to
undertake
the
task
.
Trenchard
was
modest
,
and
a
little
timid
about
speaking
;
so
it
was
settled
that
he
should
consult
the
leaders
on
the
question
,
and
particularly
the
gentleman
who
it
was
supposed
would
be
their
Chancellor
of
the
Exchequer
,
if
ever
they
were
again
called
upon
to
form
a
ministry
.
This
right
honourable
individual
listened
to
Trenchard
with
the
impatience
which
became
a
man
of
great
experience
addressed
by
a
novice
,
and
concluded
the
interview
by
saying
,
that
he
thought
“
there
was
nothing
in
it
;
”
at
the
same
time
,
he
would
turn
it
in
his
mind
,
and
consult
some
practical
men
.
Accordingly
the
ex-
and
future
minister
consulted
Mr.
Vigo
,
who
assured
him
that
he
was
quite
right
;
that
“
there
was
nothing
in
it
,
”
and
that
the
floating
capital
of
the
country
was
inexhaustible
.
In
the
midst
of
all
this
physical
prosperity
,
one
fine
day
in
August
,
parliament
having
just
been
prorogued
,
an
unknown
dealer
in
potatoes
wrote
to
the
Secretary
of
State
,
and
informed
him
that
he
had
reason
to
think
that
a
murrain
had
fallen
over
the
whole
of
the
potato
crops
in
England
,
and
that
,
if
it
extended
to
Ireland
,
the
most
serious
consequences
must
ensue
.
This
mysterious
but
universal
sickness
of
a
single
root
changed
the
history
of
the
world
.
“
There
is
no
gambling
like
politics
,
”
said
Lord
Roehampton
,
as
he
glanced
at
the
“
Times
,
”
at
Princedown
;
“
four
cabinets
in
one
week
;
the
government
must
be
more
sick
than
the
potatoes
.
”
“
Berengaria
always
says
,
”
said
Lord
Montfort
,
“
that
you
should
see
Princedown
in
summer
.
I
,
on
the
contrary
,
maintain
it
is
essentially
a
winter
residence
,
for
,
if
there
ever
be
a
sunbeam
in
England
,
Princedown
always
catches
it
.
Now
to-day
,
one
might
fancy
one’s
self
at
Cannes
.
”
Lord
Montfort
was
quite
right
,
but
even
the
most
wilful
and
selfish
of
men
was
generally
obliged
to
pass
his
Christmas
at
his
northern
castle
.
Montforts
had
passed
their
Christmas
in
that
grim
and
mighty
dwelling-place
for
centuries
.
Even
he
was
not
strong
enough
to
contend
against
such
tradition
.
Besides
,
every
one
loves
power
,
even
if
they
do
not
know
what
to
do
with
it
.
There
are
such
things
as
memberships
for
counties
,
which
,
if
public
feeling
be
not
outraged
,
are
hereditary
,
and
adjacent
boroughs
,
which
,
with
a
little
management
and
much
expense
,
become
reasonable
and
loyal
.
If
the
flag
were
rarely
to
wave
on
the
proud
keep
of
Montfort
,
all
these
satisfactory
circumstances
would
be
greatly
disturbed
and
baffled
;
and
if
the
ancient
ensign
did
not
promise
welcome
and
hospitality
at
Christmas
,
some
of
the
principal
uses
even
of
Earls
of
Montfort
might
be
questioned
.
There
was
another
reason
,
besides
the
distance
and
the
clime
,
why
Lord
Montfort
disliked
the
glorious
pile
which
every
Englishman
envied
him
for
possession
.
The
mighty
domain
of
Montfort
was
an
estate
in
strict
settlement
.
Its
lord
could
do
nothing
but
enjoy
its
convenience
and
its
beauty
,
and
expend
its
revenues
.
Nothing
could
be
sold
or
bought
,
not
the
slightest
alteration
—
according
to
Lord
Montfort
—
be
made
,
without
applying
to
trustees
for
their
sanction
.
Lord
Montfort
spoke
of
this
pitiable
state
of
affairs
as
if
he
were
describing
the
serfdom
of
the
Middle
Ages
.
“
If
I
were
to
pull
this
bell-rope
,
and
it
came
down
,
”
he
would
say
,
“
I
should
have
to
apply
to
the
trustees
before
it
could
be
arranged
.
”
Such
a
humiliating
state
of
affairs
had
induced
his
lordship
,
on
the
very
first
occasion
,
to
expend
half
a
million
of
accumulations
,
which
were
at
his
own
disposal
,
in
the
purchase
of
Princedown
,
which
certainly
was
a
very
different
residence
from
Montfort
Castle
,
alike
in
its
clime
and
character
.
Princedown
was
situate
in
a
southern
county
,
hardly
on
a
southern
coast
,
for
it
was
ten
miles
from
the
sea
,
though
enchanting
views
of
the
Channel
were
frequent
and
exquisite
.
It
was
a
palace
built
in
old
days
upon
the
Downs
,
but
sheltered
and
screened
from
every
hostile
wind
.
The
full
warmth
of
the
south
fell
upon
the
vast
but
fantastic
pile
of
the
Renaissance
style
,
said
to
have
been
built
by
that
gifted
but
mysterious
individual
,
John
of
Padua
.
The
gardens
were
wonderful
,
terrace
upon
terrace
,
and
on
each
terrace
a
tall
fountain
.
But
the
most
peculiar
feature
was
the
park
,
which
was
undulating
and
extensive
,
but
its
timber
entirely
ilex
:
single
trees
of
an
age
and
size
not
common
in
that
tree
,
and
groups
and
clumps
of
ilex
,
but
always
ilex
.
Beyond
the
park
,
and
extending
far
into
the
horizon
,
was
Princedown
forest
,
the
dominion
of
the
red
deer
.
The
Roehamptons
and
Endymion
were
the
only
permanent
visitors
at
Princedown
at
this
moment
,
but
every
day
brought
guests
who
stayed
eight-and-forty
hours
,
and
then
flitted
.
Lady
Montfort
,
like
the
manager
of
a
theatre
,
took
care
that
there
should
be
a
succession
of
novelties
to
please
or
to
surprise
the
wayward
audience
for
whom
she
had
to
cater
.
On
the
whole
,
Lord
Montfort
was
,
for
him
,
in
an
extremely
good
humour
;
never
very
ill
;
Princedown
was
the
only
place
where
he
never
was
very
ill
;
he
was
a
little
excited
,
too
,
by
the
state
of
politics
,
though
he
did
not
exactly
know
why
;
“
though
,
I
suppose
,
”
he
would
say
to
Lord
Roehampton
,
“
if
you
do
come
in
again
,
there
will
be
no
more
nonsense
about
O’Connell
and
all
that
sort
of
thing
.
If
you
are
prudent
on
that
head
,
and
carry
a
moderate
fixed
duty
,
not
too
high
,
say
ten
shillings
—
that
would
satisfy
everybody
—
I
do
not
see
why
the
thing
might
not
go
on
as
long
as
you
liked
.
”
Mr.
Waldershare
came
down
,
exuberant
with
endless
combinations
of
persons
and
parties
.
He
foresaw
in
all
these
changes
that
most
providential
consummation
,
the
end
of
the
middle
class
.
Mr.
Waldershare
had
become
quite
a
favourite
with
Lord
Montfort
,
who
delighted
to
talk
with
him
about
the
Duke
of
Modena
,
and
imbibe
his
original
views
of
English
History
.
“
Only
,
”
Lord
Montfort
would
observe
,
“
the
Montforts
have
so
much
Church
property
,
and
I
fancy
the
Duke
of
Modena
would
want
us
to
disgorge
.
”
St.
Barbe
had
been
invited
,
and
made
his
appearance
.
There
had
been
a
degree
of
estrangement
between
him
and
his
patron
.
St.
Barbe
was
very
jealous
;
he
was
indeed
jealous
of
everybody
and
everything
,
and
of
late
there
was
a
certain
Doctor
Comeley
,
an
Oxford
don
of
the
new
school
,
who
had
been
introduced
to
Lord
Montfort
,
and
was
initiating
him
in
all
the
mysteries
of
Neology
.
This
celebrated
divine
,
who
,
in
a
sweet
silky
voice
,
quoted
Socrates
instead
of
St.
Paul
,
and
was
opposed
to
all
symbols
and
formulas
as
essentially
unphilosophical
,
had
become
the
hero
of
“
the
little
dinners
”
at
Montfort
House
,
where
St.
Barbe
had
been
so
long
wont
to
shine
,
and
who
in
consequence
himself
had
become
every
day
more
severely
orthodox
.
“
Perhaps
we
may
meet
to-day
,
”
said
Endymion
one
morning
to
St.
Barbe
in
Pall
Mall
as
they
were
separating
.
“
There
is
a
little
dinner
at
Montfort
House
.
”
“
Confound
your
little
dinners
!
”
exclaimed
the
indignant
St.
Barbe
;
“
I
hope
never
to
go
to
another
little
dinner
,
and
especially
at
Montfort
House
.
I
do
not
want
to
be
asked
to
dinner
to
tumble
and
play
tricks
to
amuse
my
host
.
I
want
to
be
amused
myself
.
One
cannot
be
silent
at
these
little
dinners
,
and
the
consequence
is
,
you
say
all
the
good
things
which
are
in
your
next
number
,
and
when
it
comes
out
,
people
say
they
have
heard
them
before
.
No
,
sir
,
if
Lord
Montfort
,
or
any
other
lord
,
wishes
me
to
dine
with
him
,
let
him
ask
me
to
a
banquet
of
his
own
order
,
and
where
I
may
hold
my
tongue
like
the
rest
of
his
aristocratic
guests
.
”
Mr.
Trenchard
had
come
down
and
brought
the
news
that
the
ministry
had
resigned
,
and
that
the
Queen
had
sent
for
the
leader
of
the
opposition
,
who
was
in
Scotland
.
“
I
suppose
we
shall
have
to
go
to
town
,
”
said
Lady
Roehampton
to
her
brother
,
in
a
room
,
busy
and
full
.
“
It
is
so
difficult
to
be
alone
here
,
”
she
continued
in
a
whisper
;
“
let
us
get
into
the
gardens
.
”
And
they
escaped
.
And
then
,
when
they
were
out
of
hearing
and
of
sight
of
any
one
,
she
said
,
“
This
is
a
most
critical
time
of
your
life
,
Endymion
;
it
makes
me
very
anxious
.
I
look
upon
it
as
certain
that
you
will
be
in
office
,
and
in
all
probability
under
my
lord
.
He
has
said
nothing
to
me
about
it
,
but
I
feel
quite
assured
it
will
happen
.
It
will
be
a
great
event
.
Poor
papa
began
by
being
an
under-secretary
of
state
!
”
she
continued
in
a
moody
tone
,
half
speaking
to
herself
,
“
and
all
seemed
so
fair
then
,
but
he
had
no
root
.
What
I
want
,
Endymion
,
is
that
you
should
have
a
root
.
There
is
too
much
chance
and
favour
in
your
lot
.
They
will
fail
you
some
day
,
some
day
too
when
I
may
not
be
by
you
.
Even
this
great
opening
,
which
is
at
hand
,
would
never
have
been
at
your
command
,
but
for
a
mysterious
gift
on
which
you
never
could
have
counted
.
”
“
It
is
very
true
,
Myra
,
but
what
then
?
”
“
Why
,
then
,
I
think
we
should
guard
against
such
contingencies
.
You
know
what
is
in
my
mind
;
we
have
spoken
of
it
before
,
and
not
once
only
.
I
want
you
to
marry
,
and
you
know
whom
.
”
“
Marriage
is
a
serious
affair
!
”
said
Endymion
,
with
a
distressed
look
.
“
The
most
serious
.
It
is
the
principal
event
for
good
or
for
evil
in
all
lives
.
Had
I
not
married
,
and
married
as
I
did
,
we
should
not
have
been
here
—
and
where
,
I
dare
not
think
.
”
“
Yes
;
but
you
made
a
happy
marriage
;
one
of
the
happiest
that
was
ever
known
,
I
think
.
”
“
And
I
wish
you
,
Endymion
,
to
make
the
same
.
I
did
not
marry
for
love
,
though
love
came
,
and
I
brought
happiness
to
one
who
made
me
happy
.
But
had
it
been
otherwise
,
if
there
had
been
no
sympathy
,
or
prospect
of
sympathy
,
I
still
should
have
married
,
for
it
was
the
only
chance
of
saving
you
.
”
“
Dearest
sister
!
Everything
I
have
,
I
owe
to
you
.
”
“
It
is
not
much
,
”
said
Myra
,
“
but
I
wish
to
make
it
much
.
Power
in
every
form
,
and
in
excess
,
is
at
your
disposal
if
you
be
wise
.
There
is
a
woman
,
I
think
with
every
charm
,
who
loves
you
;
her
fortune
may
have
no
limit
;
she
is
a
member
of
one
of
the
most
powerful
families
in
England
—
a
noble
family
I
may
say
,
for
my
lord
told
me
last
night
that
Mr.
Neuchatel
would
be
instantly
raised
to
the
peerage
,
and
you
hesitate
!
By
all
the
misery
of
the
past
—
which
never
can
be
forgotten
—
for
Heaven’s
sake
,
be
wise
;
do
not
palter
with
such
a
chance
.
”
“
If
all
be
as
you
say
,
Myra
,
and
I
have
no
reason
but
your
word
to
believe
it
is
so
—
if
,
for
example
,
of
which
I
never
saw
any
evidence
,
Mr.
Neuchatel
would
approve
,
or
even
tolerate
,
this
alliance
—
I
have
too
deep
and
sincere
a
regard
for
his
daughter
,
founded
on
much
kindness
to
both
of
us
,
to
mock
her
with
the
offer
of
a
heart
which
she
has
not
gained
.
”
“
You
say
you
have
a
deep
and
sincere
regard
for
Adriana
,
”
said
his
sister
.
“
Why
,
what
better
basis
for
enduring
happiness
can
there
be
?
You
are
not
a
man
to
marry
for
romantic
sentiment
,
and
pass
your
life
in
writing
sonnets
to
your
wife
till
you
find
her
charms
and
your
inspiration
alike
exhausted
;
you
are
already
wedded
to
the
State
,
you
have
been
nurtured
in
the
thoughts
of
great
affairs
from
your
very
childhood
,
and
even
in
the
darkest
hour
of
our
horrible
adversity
.
You
are
a
man
born
for
power
and
high
condition
,
whose
name
in
time
ought
to
rank
with
those
of
the
great
statesmen
of
the
continent
,
the
true
lords
of
Europe
.
Power
,
and
power
alone
,
should
be
your
absorbing
object
,
and
all
the
accidents
and
incidents
of
life
should
only
be
considered
with
reference
to
that
main
result
.
”
“
Well
,
I
am
only
five-and-twenty
after
all
.
There
is
time
yet
to
consider
this
.
”
“
Great
men
should
think
of
Opportunity
,
and
not
of
Time
.
Time
is
the
excuse
of
feeble
and
puzzled
spirits
.
They
make
time
the
sleeping
partner
of
their
lives
to
accomplish
what
ought
to
be
achieved
by
their
own
will
.
In
this
case
,
there
certainly
is
no
time
like
the
present
.
The
opportunity
is
unrivalled
.
All
your
friends
would
,
without
an
exception
,
be
delighted
if
you
now
were
wise
.
”
“
I
hardly
think
my
friends
have
given
it
a
thought
,
”
said
Endymion
,
a
little
flushed
.
“
There
is
nothing
that
would
please
Lady
Montfort
more
.
”
He
turned
pale
.
“
How
do
you
know
that
?
”
he
inquired
.
“
She
told
me
so
,
and
offered
to
help
me
in
bringing
about
the
result
.
”
“
Very
kind
of
her
!
Well
,
dearest
Myra
,
you
and
Lord
Roehampton
have
much
to
think
of
at
this
anxious
moment
.
Let
this
matter
drop
.
We
have
discussed
it
before
,
and
we
have
discussed
it
enough
.
It
is
more
than
pain
for
me
to
differ
from
you
on
any
point
,
but
I
cannot
offer
to
Adriana
a
heart
which
belongs
to
another
.
”
CHAPTER
XV
All
the
high
expectations
of
December
at
Princedown
were
doomed
to
disappointment
;
they
were
a
further
illustration
of
Lord
Roehampton’s
saying
,
that
there
was
no
gambling
like
politics
.
The
leader
of
the
opposition
came
up
to
town
,
but
he
found
nothing
but
difficulties
,
and
a
few
days
before
Christmas
he
had
resigned
the
proffered
trust
.
The
protectionist
ministry
were
to
remain
in
office
,
and
to
repeal
the
corn
laws
.
The
individual
who
was
most
baulked
by
this
unexpected
result
was
perhaps
Lord
Roehampton
.
He
was
a
man
who
really
cared
for
nothing
but
office
and
affairs
,
and
being
advanced
in
life
,
he
naturally
regretted
a
lost
opportunity
.
But
he
never
showed
his
annoyance
.
Always
playful
,
and
even
taking
refuge
in
a
bantering
spirit
,
the
world
seemed
to
go
light
with
him
when
everything
was
dark
and
everybody
despondent
.
The
discontent
or
indignation
which
the
contemplated
revolution
in
policy
was
calculated
to
excite
in
the
Conservative
party
generally
were
to
a
certain
degree
neutralised
for
the
moment
by
mysterious
and
confidential
communications
,
circulated
by
Mr.
Tadpole
and
the
managers
of
the
party
,
that
the
change
was
to
be
accompanied
by
“
immense
compensations
.
”
As
parliament
was
to
meet
as
soon
as
convenient
after
Christmas
,
and
the
statement
of
the
regenerated
ministry
was
then
to
be
made
immediately
,
every
one
held
his
hand
,
as
they
all
felt
the
blow
must
be
more
efficient
when
the
scheme
of
the
government
was
known
.
The
Montforts
were
obliged
to
go
to
their
castle
,
a
visit
the
sad
necessity
of
which
the
formation
of
a
new
government
,
at
one
time
,
they
had
hoped
might
have
prevented
.
The
Roehamptons
passed
their
Christmas
with
Mr.
Sidney
Wilton
at
Gaydene
,
where
Endymion
also
and
many
of
the
opposition
were
guests
.
Waldershare
took
refuge
with
his
friends
the
Beaumaris’
,
full
of
revenge
and
unceasing
combinations
.
He
took
down
St.
Barbe
with
him
,
whose
services
in
the
session
might
be
useful
.
There
had
been
a
little
misunderstanding
between
these
two
eminent
personages
during
the
late
season
.
St.
Barbe
was
not
satisfied
with
his
position
in
the
new
journal
which
Waldershare
had
established
.
He
affected
to
have
been
ill-treated
and
deceived
,
and
this
with
a
mysterious
shake
of
the
head
which
seemed
to
intimate
state
secrets
that
might
hereafter
be
revealed
.
The
fact
is
,
St.
Barbe’s
political
articles
were
so
absurd
that
it
was
impossible
to
print
them
;
but
as
his
name
stood
high
as
a
clever
writer
on
matters
with
which
he
was
acquainted
,
they
permitted
him
,
particularly
as
they
were
bound
to
pay
him
a
high
salary
,
to
contribute
essays
on
the
social
habits
and
opinions
of
the
day
,
which
he
treated
in
a
happy
and
taking
manner
.
St.
Barbe
himself
had
such
quick
perception
of
peculiarities
,
so
fine
a
power
of
observation
,
and
so
keen
a
sense
of
the
absurd
,
that
when
he
revealed
in
confidence
the
causes
of
his
discontent
,
it
was
almost
impossible
to
believe
that
he
was
entirely
serious
.
It
seems
that
he
expected
this
connection
with
the
journal
in
question
to
have
been
,
to
use
his
own
phrase
,
“
a
closet
affair
,
”
and
that
he
was
habitually
to
have
been
introduced
by
the
backstairs
of
the
palace
to
the
presence
of
Royalty
to
receive
encouragement
and
inspiration
.
“
I
do
not
complain
of
the
pay
,
”
he
added
,
“
though
I
could
get
more
by
writing
for
Shuffle
and
Screw
,
but
I
expected
a
decoration
.
However
,
I
shall
probably
stand
for
next
parliament
on
the
principles
of
the
Mountain
,
so
perhaps
it
is
just
as
well
.
”
Parliament
soon
met
,
and
that
session
began
which
will
long
be
memorable
.
The
“
immense
compensations
”
were
nowhere
.
Waldershare
,
who
had
only
waited
for
this
,
resigned
his
office
as
Under-Secretary
of
State
.
This
was
a
bad
example
and
a
blow
,
but
nothing
compared
to
the
resignation
of
his
great
office
in
the
Household
by
the
Earl
of
Beaumaris
.
This
involved
unhappily
the
withdrawal
of
Lady
Beaumaris
,
under
whose
bright
,
inspiring
roof
the
Tory
party
had
long
assembled
,
sanguine
and
bold
.
Other
considerable
peers
followed
the
precedent
of
Lord
Beaumaris
,
and
withdrew
their
support
from
the
ministry
.
Waldershare
moved
the
amendment
to
the
first
reading
of
the
obnoxious
bill
;
but
although
defeated
by
a
considerable
majority
,
the
majority
was
mainly
formed
by
members
of
the
opposition
.
Among
these
was
Mr.
Ferrars
,
who
it
was
observed
never
opened
his
lips
during
the
whole
session
.
This
was
not
the
case
with
Mr.
Bertie
Tremaine
and
the
school
of
Pythagoras
.
The
opportunity
long
waited
for
had
at
length
arrived
.
There
was
a
great
parliamentary
connection
deserted
by
their
leaders
.
This
distinguished
rank
and
file
required
officers
.
The
cabinet
of
Mr.
Bertie
Tremaine
was
ready
,
and
at
their
service
.
Mr.
Bertie
Tremaine
seconded
the
amendment
of
Waldershare
,
and
took
the
occasion
of
expounding
the
new
philosophy
,
which
seemed
to
combine
the
principles
of
Bentham
with
the
practice
of
Lord
Liverpool
.
“
I
offered
to
you
this
,
”
he
said
reproachfully
to
Endymion
;
“
you
might
have
been
my
secretary
of
state
.
Mr.
Tremaine
Bertie
will
now
take
it
.
He
would
rather
have
had
an
embassy
,
but
he
must
make
the
sacrifice
.
”
The
debates
during
the
session
were
much
carried
on
by
the
Pythagoreans
,
who
never
ceased
chattering
.
They
had
men
ready
for
every
branch
of
the
subject
,
and
the
debate
was
often
closed
by
their
chief
in
mystical
sentences
,
which
they
cheered
like
awestruck
zealots
.
The
great
bill
was
carried
,
but
the
dark
hour
of
retribution
at
length
arrived
.
The
ministry
,
though
sanguine
to
the
last
of
success
,
and
not
without
cause
,
were
completely
and
ignominiously
defeated
.
The
new
government
,
long
prepared
,
was
at
once
formed
.
Lord
Roehampton
again
became
secretary
of
state
,
and
he
appointed
Endymion
to
the
post
under
him
.
“
I
shall
not
press
you
unfairly
,
”
said
Mr.
Bertie
Tremaine
to
Endymion
,
with
encouraging
condescension
.
“
I
wish
my
men
for
a
season
to
comprehend
what
is
a
responsible
opposition
.
I
am
sorry
Hortensius
is
your
solicitor-general
,
for
I
had
intended
him
always
for
my
chancellor
.
”
CHAPTER
XVI
Very
shortly
after
the
prorogation
of
parliament
,
an
incident
occurred
which
materially
affected
the
position
of
Endymion
.
Lord
Roehampton
had
a
serious
illness
.
Having
a
fine
constitution
,
he
apparently
completely
rallied
from
the
attack
,
and
little
was
known
of
it
by
the
public
.
The
world
also
,
at
that
moment
,
was
as
usual
much
dispersed
and
distracted
;
dispersed
in
many
climes
,
and
distracted
by
the
fatigue
and
hardships
they
annually
endure
,
and
which
they
call
relaxation
.
Even
the
colleagues
of
the
great
statesman
were
scattered
,
and
before
they
had
realised
that
he
had
been
seriously
ill
,
they
read
of
him
in
the
fulfilment
of
his
official
duties
.
But
there
was
no
mistake
as
to
his
state
under
his
own
roof
.
Lord
Roehampton
had
,
throughout
the
later
period
of
his
life
,
been
in
the
habit
of
working
at
night
.
It
was
only
at
night
that
he
could
command
that
abstraction
necessary
for
the
consideration
of
great
affairs
.
He
was
also
a
real
worker
.
He
wrote
his
own
despatches
,
whenever
they
referred
to
matters
of
moment
.
He
left
to
the
permanent
staff
of
his
office
little
but
the
fulfilment
of
duties
which
,
though
heavy
and
multifarious
,
were
duties
of
routine
.
The
composition
of
these
despatches
was
a
source
to
Lord
Roehampton
of
much
gratification
and
excitement
.
They
were
of
European
fame
,
and
their
terse
argument
,
their
clear
determination
,
and
often
their
happy
irony
,
were
acknowledged
in
all
the
cabinets
,
and
duly
apprehended
.
The
physicians
impressed
upon
Lady
Roehampton
that
this
night-work
must
absolutely
cease
.
A
neglect
of
their
advice
must
lead
to
serious
consequences
;
following
it
,
there
was
no
reason
why
her
husband
should
not
live
for
years
,
and
continue
to
serve
the
State
.
Lord
Roehampton
must
leave
the
House
of
Commons
;
he
must
altogether
change
the
order
of
his
life
;
he
must
seek
more
amusement
in
society
,
and
yet
keep
early
hours
;
and
then
he
would
find
himself
fresh
and
vigorous
in
the
morning
,
and
his
work
would
rather
benefit
than
distress
him
.
It
was
all
an
affair
of
habit
.
Lady
Roehampton
threw
all
her
energies
into
this
matter
.
She
entertained
for
her
lord
a
reverential
affection
,
and
his
life
to
her
seemed
a
precious
deposit
,
of
which
she
was
the
trustee
.
She
succeeded
where
the
physicians
would
probably
have
failed
.
Towards
the
end
of
the
year
Lord
Roehampton
was
called
up
to
the
House
of
Lords
for
one
of
his
baronies
,
and
Endymion
was
informed
that
when
parliament
met
,
he
would
have
to
represent
the
Foreign
Office
in
the
House
of
Commons
.
Waldershare
heartily
congratulated
him
.
“
You
have
got
what
I
most
wished
to
have
in
the
world
;
but
I
will
not
envy
you
,
for
envy
is
a
vile
passion
.
You
have
the
good
fortune
to
serve
a
genial
chief
.
I
had
to
deal
with
a
Harley
,
—
cold
,
suspicious
,
ambiguous
,
pretending
to
be
profound
,
and
always
in
a
state
of
perplexity
.
”
It
was
not
a
very
agreeable
session
.
The
potato
famine
did
something
more
than
repeal
the
corn
laws
.
It
proved
that
there
was
no
floating
capital
left
in
the
country
;
and
when
the
Barings
and
Rothschilds
combined
,
almost
as
much
from
public
spirit
as
from
private
speculation
,
to
raise
a
loan
of
a
few
millions
for
the
minister
,
they
absolutely
found
the
public
purse
was
exhausted
,
and
had
to
supply
the
greater
portion
of
the
amount
from
their
own
resources
.
In
one
of
the
many
financial
debates
that
consequently
occurred
,
Trenchard
established
himself
by
a
clear
and
comprehensive
view
of
the
position
of
affairs
,
and
by
modestly
reminding
the
House
,
that
a
year
ago
he
had
predicted
the
present
condition
of
things
,
and
indicated
its
inevitable
cause
.
This
was
the
great
speech
on
a
great
night
,
and
Mr.
Bertie
Tremaine
walked
home
with
Trenchard
.
It
was
observed
that
Mr.
Bertie
Tremaine
always
walked
home
with
the
member
who
had
made
the
speech
of
the
evening
.
“
Your
friends
did
not
behave
well
to
you
,
”
he
said
in
a
hollow
voice
to
Trenchard
.
“
They
ought
to
have
made
you
Secretary
of
the
Treasury
.
Think
of
this
.
It
is
an
important
post
,
and
may
lead
to
anything
;
and
,
so
far
as
I
am
concerned
,
it
would
give
me
real
pleasure
to
see
it
.
”
But
besides
the
disquietude
of
domestic
affairs
,
famine
and
failures
competing
in
horrible
catastrophe
and
the
Bank
Act
suspended
,
as
the
year
advanced
matters
on
the
Continent
became
not
less
dark
and
troubled
.
Italy
was
mysteriously
agitated
;
the
pope
announced
himself
a
reformer
;
there
were
disturbances
in
Milan
,
Ancona
,
and
Ferrara
;
the
Austrians
threatened
the
occupation
of
several
States
,
and
Sardinia
offered
to
defend
His
Holiness
from
the
Austrians
.
In
addition
to
all
this
,
there
were
reform
banquets
in
France
,
a
civil
war
in
Switzerland
,
and
the
King
of
Prussia
thought
it
prudent
to
present
his
subjects
with
a
Constitution
.
The
Count
of
Ferroll
about
this
time
made
a
visit
to
England
.
He
was
always
a
welcome
guest
there
,
and
had
received
the
greatest
distinction
which
England
could
bestow
upon
a
foreigner
;
he
had
been
elected
an
honorary
member
of
White’s
.
“
You
may
have
troubles
here
,
”
he
said
to
Lady
Montfort
,
“
but
they
will
pass
;
you
will
have
mealy
potatoes
again
and
plenty
of
bank
notes
,
but
we
shall
not
get
off
so
cheaply
.
Everything
is
quite
rotten
throughout
the
Continent
.
This
year
is
tranquillity
to
what
the
next
will
be
.
There
is
not
a
throne
in
Europe
worth
a
year’s
purchase
.
My
worthy
master
wants
me
to
return
home
and
be
minister
;
I
am
to
fashion
for
him
a
new
constitution
.
I
will
never
have
anything
to
do
with
new
constitutions
;
their
inventors
are
always
the
first
victims
.
Instead
of
making
a
constitution
,
he
should
make
a
country
,
and
convert
his
heterogeneous
domains
into
a
patriotic
dominion
.
”
“
But
how
is
that
to
be
done
?
”
“
There
is
only
one
way
;
by
blood
and
iron
.
”
“
My
dear
count
,
you
shock
me
!
”
“
I
shall
have
to
shock
you
a
great
deal
more
before
the
inevitable
is
brought
about
.
”
“
Well
,
I
am
glad
that
there
is
something
,
”
said
Lady
Montfort
,
“
which
is
inevitable
.
I
hope
it
will
come
soon
.
I
am
sure
this
country
is
ruined
.
What
with
cheap
bread
at
famine
prices
and
these
railroads
,
we
seem
quite
finished
.
I
thought
one
operation
was
to
counteract
the
other
;
but
they
appear
both
to
turn
out
equally
fatal
.
”
Endymion
had
now
one
of
those
rare
opportunities
which
,
if
men
be
equal
to
them
,
greatly
affect
their
future
career
.
As
the
session
advanced
,
debates
on
foreign
affairs
became
frequent
and
deeply
interesting
.
So
far
as
the
ministry
was
concerned
,
the
burthen
of
these
fell
on
the
Under-Secretary
of
State
.
He
was
never
wanting
.
The
House
felt
that
he
had
not
only
the
adequate
knowledge
,
but
that
it
was
knowledge
perfectly
digested
;
that
his
remarks
and
conduct
were
those
of
a
man
who
had
given
constant
thought
to
his
duties
,
and
was
master
of
his
subject
.
His
oratorical
gifts
also
began
to
be
recognised
.
The
power
and
melody
of
his
voice
had
been
before
remarked
,
and
that
is
a
gift
which
much
contributes
to
success
in
a
popular
assembly
.
He
was
ready
without
being
too
fluent
.
There
were
light
and
shade
in
his
delivery
.
He
repressed
his
power
of
sarcasm
;
but
if
unjustly
and
inaccurately
attacked
,
he
could
be
keen
.
Over
his
temper
he
had
a
complete
control
;
if
,
indeed
,
his
entire
insensibility
to
violent
language
on
the
part
of
an
opponent
was
not
organic
.
All
acknowledged
his
courtesy
,
and
both
sides
sympathised
with
a
young
man
who
proved
himself
equal
to
no
ordinary
difficulties
.
In
a
word
,
Endymion
was
popular
,
and
that
popularity
was
not
diminished
by
the
fact
of
his
being
the
brother
of
Lady
Roehampton
,
who
exercised
great
influence
in
society
,
and
who
was
much
beloved
.
As
the
year
advanced
external
affairs
became
daily
more
serious
,
and
the
country
congratulated
itself
that
its
interests
were
entrusted
to
a
minister
of
the
experience
and
capacity
of
Lord
Roehampton
.
That
statesman
seemed
never
better
than
when
the
gale
ran
high
.
Affairs
in
France
began
to
assume
the
complexion
that
the
Count
of
Ferroll
had
prophetically
announced
.
If
a
crash
occurred
in
that
quarter
,
Lord
Roehampton
felt
that
all
Europe
might
be
in
a
blaze
.
Affairs
were
never
more
serious
than
at
the
turn
of
the
year
.
Lord
Roehampton
told
his
wife
that
their
holidays
must
be
spent
in
St.
James’
Square
,
for
he
could
not
leave
London
;
but
he
wished
her
to
go
to
Gaydene
,
where
they
had
been
invited
by
Mr.
Sidney
Wilton
to
pass
their
Christmas
as
usual
.
Nothing
,
however
,
would
induce
her
to
quit
his
side
.
He
seemed
quite
well
,
but
the
pressure
of
affairs
was
extreme
;
and
sometimes
,
against
all
her
remonstrances
,
he
was
again
working
at
night
.
Such
remonstrances
on
other
subjects
would
probably
have
been
successful
,
for
her
influence
over
him
was
extreme
.
But
to
a
minister
responsible
for
the
interests
of
a
great
country
they
are
vain
,
futile
,
impossible
.
One
might
as
well
remonstrate
with
an
officer
on
the
field
of
battle
on
the
danger
he
was
incurring
.
She
said
to
him
one
night
in
his
library
,
where
she
paid
him
a
little
visit
before
she
retired
,
“
My
heart
,
I
know
it
is
no
use
my
saying
anything
,
and
yet
—
remember
your
promise
.
This
night-work
makes
me
very
unhappy
.
”
“
I
remember
my
promise
,
and
I
will
try
not
to
work
at
night
again
in
a
hurry
,
but
I
must
finish
this
despatch
.
If
I
did
not
,
I
could
not
sleep
,
and
you
know
sleep
is
what
I
require
.
”
“
Good
night
,
then
.
”
He
looked
up
with
his
winning
smile
,
and
held
out
his
lips
.
“
Kiss
me
,
”
he
said
;
“
I
never
felt
better
.
”
Lady
Roehampton
after
a
time
slumbered
;
how
long
she
knew
not
,
but
when
she
woke
,
her
lord
was
not
at
her
side
.
She
struck
a
light
and
looked
at
her
watch
.
It
was
past
three
o’clock
;
she
jumped
out
of
bed
,
and
,
merely
in
her
slippers
and
her
robe
de
chambre
,
descended
to
the
library
.
It
was
a
large
,
long
room
,
and
Lord
Roehampton
worked
at
the
extreme
end
of
it
.
The
candles
were
nearly
burnt
out
.
As
she
approached
him
,
she
perceived
that
he
was
leaning
back
in
his
chair
.
When
she
reached
him
,
she
observed
he
was
awake
,
but
he
did
not
seem
to
recognise
her
.
A
dreadful
feeling
came
over
her
.
She
took
his
hand
.
It
was
quite
cold
.
Her
intellect
for
an
instant
seemed
to
desert
her
.
She
looked
round
her
with
an
air
void
almost
of
intelligence
,
and
then
rushing
to
the
bell
she
continued
ringing
it
till
some
of
the
household
appeared
.
A
medical
man
was
near
at
hand
,
and
in
a
few
minutes
arrived
,
but
it
was
a
bootless
visit
.
All
was
over
,
and
all
had
been
over
,
he
said
,
“
for
some
time
.
”
CHAPTER
XVII
“
Well
,
you
have
made
up
your
government
?
”
asked
Lady
Montfort
of
the
prime
minister
as
he
entered
her
boudoir
.
He
shook
his
head
.
“
Have
you
seen
her
?
”
he
inquired
.
“
No
,
not
yet
;
I
suppose
she
will
see
me
as
soon
as
any
one
.
”
“
I
am
told
she
is
utterly
overwhelmed
.
”
“
She
was
devoted
to
him
;
it
was
the
happiest
union
I
ever
knew
;
but
Lady
Roehampton
is
not
the
woman
to
be
utterly
overwhelmed
.
She
has
too
imperial
a
spirit
for
that
.
”
“
It
is
a
great
misfortune
,
”
said
the
prime
minister
.
“
We
have
not
been
lucky
since
we
took
the
reins
.
”
“
Well
,
there
is
no
use
in
deploring
.
There
is
nobody
else
to
take
the
reins
,
so
you
may
defy
misfortunes
.
The
question
now
is
,
what
are
you
going
to
do
?
”
“
Well
,
there
seems
to
me
only
one
thing
to
do
.
We
must
put
Rawchester
there
.
”
“
Rawchester
!
”
exclaimed
Lady
Montfort
,
“
what
,
‘Niminy-Piminy’
?
”
“
Well
,
he
is
conciliatory
,
”
said
the
premier
,
“
and
if
you
are
not
very
clever
,
you
should
be
conciliatory
.
”
“
He
never
knows
his
own
mind
for
a
week
together
.
”
“
We
will
take
care
of
his
mind
,
”
said
the
prime
minister
,
“
but
he
has
travelled
a
good
deal
,
and
knows
the
public
men
.
”
“
Yes
,
”
said
Lady
Montfort
,
“
and
the
public
men
,
I
fear
,
know
him
.
”
“
Then
he
can
make
a
good
House
of
Lords’
speech
,
and
we
have
a
first-rate
man
in
the
Commons
;
so
it
will
do
.
”
“
I
do
not
think
your
first-rate
man
in
the
House
of
Commons
will
remain
,
”
said
Lady
Montfort
drily
.
“
You
do
not
mean
that
?
”
said
the
prime
minister
,
evidently
alarmed
.
“
His
health
is
delicate
,
”
said
Lady
Montfort
;
“
had
it
not
been
for
his
devotion
to
Lord
Roehampton
,
I
know
he
thought
of
travelling
for
a
couple
of
years
.
”
“
Ferrars’
health
delicate
?
”
said
the
premier
;
“
I
thought
he
was
the
picture
of
health
and
youthful
vigour
.
Health
is
one
of
the
elements
to
be
considered
in
calculating
the
career
of
a
public
man
,
and
I
have
always
predicted
an
eminent
career
for
Ferrars
,
because
,
in
addition
to
his
remarkable
talents
,
he
had
apparently
such
a
fine
constitution
.
”
“
No
health
could
stand
working
under
Lord
Rawchester
.
”
“
Well
,
but
what
am
I
to
do
?
I
cannot
make
Mr.
Ferrars
secretary
of
state
.
”
“
Why
not
?
”
The
prime
minister
looked
considerably
perplexed
.
Such
a
promotion
could
not
possibly
have
occurred
to
him
.
Though
a
man
of
many
gifts
,
and
a
statesman
,
he
had
been
educated
in
high
Whig
routine
,
and
the
proposition
of
Lady
Montfort
was
like
recommending
him
to
make
a
curate
a
bishop
.
“
Well
,
”
he
said
,
“
Ferrars
is
a
very
clever
fellow
.
He
is
our
rising
young
man
,
and
there
is
no
doubt
that
,
if
his
health
is
not
so
delicate
as
you
fear
,
he
will
mount
high
;
but
though
our
rising
young
man
,
he
is
a
young
man
,
much
too
young
to
be
a
secretary
of
state
.
He
wants
age
,
larger
acquaintance
with
affairs
,
greater
position
,
and
more
root
in
the
country
.
”
“
What
was
Mr.
Canning’s
age
,
who
held
Mr.
Ferrars’
office
,
when
he
was
made
secretary
of
state
?
and
what
root
in
the
country
had
he
?
”
When
the
prime
minister
got
back
to
Downing
Street
,
he
sent
immediately
for
his
head
whip
.
“
Look
after
Ferrars
,
”
he
said
;
“
they
are
trying
to
induce
him
to
resign
office
.
If
he
does
,
our
embarrassments
will
be
extreme
.
Lord
Rawchester
will
be
secretary
of
state
;
send
a
paragraph
at
once
to
the
papers
announcing
it
.
But
look
after
Ferrars
,
and
immediately
,
and
report
to
me
.
”
Lord
Roehampton
had
a
large
entailed
estate
,
though
his
affairs
were
always
in
a
state
of
confusion
.
That
seems
almost
the
inevitable
result
of
being
absorbed
in
the
great
business
of
governing
mankind
.
If
there
be
exceptions
among
statesmen
of
the
highest
class
,
they
will
generally
be
found
among
those
who
have
been
chiefly
in
opposition
,
and
so
have
had
leisure
and
freedom
of
mind
sufficient
to
manage
their
estates
.
Lord
Roehampton
had
,
however
,
extensive
powers
of
charging
his
estate
in
lieu
of
dower
,
and
he
had
employed
them
to
their
utmost
extent
;
so
his
widow
was
well
provided
for
.
The
executors
were
Mr.
Sidney
Wilton
and
Endymion
.
After
a
short
period
,
Lady
Roehampton
saw
Adriana
,
and
not
very
long
after
,
Lady
Montfort
.
They
both
of
them
,
from
that
time
,
were
her
frequent
,
if
not
constant
,
companions
,
but
she
saw
no
one
else
.
Once
only
,
since
the
terrible
event
,
was
she
seen
by
the
world
,
and
that
was
when
a
tall
figure
,
shrouded
in
the
darkest
attire
,
attended
as
chief
mourner
at
the
burial
of
her
lord
in
Westminster
Abbey
.
She
remained
permanently
in
London
,
not
only
because
she
had
no
country
house
,
but
because
she
wished
to
be
with
her
brother
.
As
time
advanced
,
she
frequently
saw
Mr.
Sidney
Wilton
,
who
,
being
chief
executor
of
the
will
,
and
charged
with
all
her
affairs
,
had
necessarily
much
on
which
to
consult
her
.
One
of
the
greatest
difficulties
was
to
provide
her
with
a
suitable
residence
,
for
of
course
,
she
was
not
to
remain
in
the
family
mansion
in
St.
James’
Square
.
That
difficulty
was
ultimately
overcome
in
a
manner
highly
interesting
to
her
feelings
.
Her
father’s
mansion
in
Hill
Street
,
where
she
had
passed
her
prosperous
and
gorgeous
childhood
,
was
in
the
market
,
and
she
was
most
desirous
to
occupy
it
.
“
It
will
seem
like
a
great
step
towards
the
restoration
,
”
she
said
to
Endymion
.
“
My
plans
are
,
that
you
should
give
up
the
Albany
,
and
that
we
should
live
together
.
I
should
like
to
live
together
in
Hill
Street
;
I
should
like
to
see
our
nursery
once
more
.
The
past
then
will
be
a
dream
,
or
at
least
all
the
past
that
is
disagreeable
.
My
fortune
is
yours
;
as
we
are
twins
,
it
is
likely
that
I
may
live
as
long
as
you
do
.
But
I
wish
you
to
be
the
master
of
the
house
,
and
in
time
receive
your
friends
in
a
manner
becoming
your
position
.
I
do
not
think
that
I
shall
ever
much
care
to
go
out
again
,
but
I
may
help
you
at
home
,
and
then
you
can
invite
women
;
a
mere
bachelor’s
house
is
always
dull
.
”
There
was
one
difficulty
still
in
this
arrangement
.
The
mansion
in
Hill
Street
was
not
to
be
let
,
it
was
for
sale
,
and
the
price
naturally
for
such
a
mansion
in
such
a
situation
,
was
considerable
;
quite
beyond
the
means
of
Lady
Roehampton
who
had
a
very
ample
income
,
but
no
capital
.
This
difficulty
,
however
,
vanished
in
a
moment
.
Mr.
Sidney
Wilton
purchased
the
house
;
he
wanted
an
investment
,
and
this
was
an
excellent
one
;
so
Lady
Roehampton
became
his
tenant
.
The
change
was
great
in
the
life
of
Myra
,
and
she
felt
it
.
She
loved
her
lord
,
and
had
cut
off
her
beautiful
hair
,
which
reached
almost
to
her
feet
,
and
had
tied
it
round
his
neck
in
his
coffin
.
But
Myra
,
notwithstanding
she
was
a
woman
,
and
a
woman
of
transcendent
beauty
,
had
never
had
a
romance
of
the
heart
.
Until
she
married
,
her
pride
and
love
for
her
brother
,
which
was
part
of
her
pride
,
had
absorbed
her
being
.
When
she
married
,
and
particularly
as
time
advanced
,
she
felt
all
the
misery
of
her
existence
had
been
removed
,
and
nothing
could
exceed
the
tenderness
and
affectionate
gratitude
,
and
truly
unceasing
devotion
,
which
she
extended
to
the
gifted
being
to
who
she
owed
this
deliverance
.
But
it
was
not
in
the
nature
of
things
that
she
could
experience
those
feelings
which
still
echo
in
the
heights
of
Meilleraie
,
and
compared
with
which
all
the
glittering
accidents
of
fortune
sink
into
insignificance
.
The
year
rolled
on
,
an
agitated
year
of
general
revolution
.
Endymion
himself
was
rarely
in
society
,
for
all
the
time
which
the
House
of
Commons
spared
to
him
he
wished
chiefly
to
dedicate
to
his
sister
.
His
brougham
was
always
ready
to
take
him
up
to
Hill
Street
for
one
of
those
somewhat
hurried
,
but
amusing
little
dinners
,
which
break
the
monotony
of
parliamentary
life
.
And
sometimes
he
brought
a
companion
,
generally
Mr.
Wilton
,
and
sometimes
they
met
Lady
Montfort
or
Adriana
,
now
ennobled
as
the
daughter
of
Lord
Hainault
.
There
was
much
to
talk
about
,
even
if
they
did
not
talk
about
themselves
and
their
friends
,
for
every
day
brought
great
events
,
fresh
insurrections
,
new
constitutions
,
changes
of
dynasties
,
assassinations
of
ministers
,
states
of
siege
,
evanescent
empires
,
and
premature
republics
.
On
one
occasion
,
having
previously
prepared
his
sister
,
who
seemed
not
uninterested
by
the
suggestion
,
Endymion
brought
Thornberry
to
dine
in
Hill
Street
.
There
was
no
one
else
present
except
Adriana
.
Job
was
a
great
admirer
of
Lady
Roehampton
,
but
was
a
little
awestruck
by
her
.
He
remembered
her
in
her
childhood
,
a
beautiful
being
who
never
smiled
.
She
received
him
very
graciously
,
and
after
dinner
,
inviting
him
to
sit
by
her
on
the
sofa
,
referred
with
delicacy
to
old
times
.
“
Your
ladyship
,
”
said
Thornberry
,
“
would
not
know
that
I
live
myself
now
at
Hurstley
.
”
“
Indeed
!
”
said
Myra
,
unaffectedly
surprised
.
“
Well
,
it
happened
in
this
way
;
my
father
now
is
in
years
,
and
can
no
longer
visit
us
as
he
occasionally
did
in
Lancashire
;
so
wishing
to
see
us
all
,
at
least
once
more
,
we
agreed
to
pay
him
a
visit
.
I
do
not
know
how
it
exactly
came
about
,
but
my
wife
took
a
violent
fancy
to
the
place
.
They
all
received
us
very
kindly
.
The
good
rector
and
his
dear
kind
wife
made
it
very
pleasant
,
and
the
archbishop
was
there
—
whom
we
used
to
call
Mr.
Nigel
—
only
think
!
That
is
a
wonderful
affair
.
He
is
not
at
all
high
and
mighty
,
but
talked
with
us
,
and
walked
with
us
,
just
the
same
as
in
old
days
.
He
took
a
great
fancy
to
my
boy
,
John
Hampden
,
and
,
after
all
,
my
boy
is
to
go
to
Oxford
,
and
not
to
Owens
College
,
as
I
had
first
intended
.
”
“
That
is
a
great
change
.
”
“
Well
,
I
wanted
him
to
go
to
Owens
College
,
I
confess
,
but
I
did
not
care
so
much
about
Mill
Hill
.
That
was
his
mother’s
fancy
;
she
was
very
strong
about
that
.
It
is
a
Nonconformist
school
,
but
I
am
not
a
Nonconformist
.
I
do
not
much
admire
dogmas
,
but
I
am
a
Churchman
as
my
fathers
were
.
However
,
John
Hampden
is
not
to
go
to
Mill
Hill
.
He
has
gone
to
a
sort
of
college
near
Oxford
,
which
the
archbishop
recommended
to
us
;
the
principal
,
and
all
the
tutors
are
clergyman
—
of
course
of
our
Church
.
My
wife
was
quite
delighted
with
it
all
.
”
“
Well
,
that
is
a
good
thing
.
”
“
And
so
,
”
continued
Thornberry
,
“
she
got
it
into
her
head
she
should
like
to
live
at
Hurstley
,
and
I
took
the
place
.
I
am
afraid
I
have
been
foolish
enough
to
lay
out
a
great
deal
of
money
there
—
for
a
place
not
my
own
.
Your
ladyship
would
not
know
the
old
hall
.
I
have
,
what
they
call
,
restored
it
,
and
upon
my
word
,
except
the
new
hall
of
the
Clothworkers’
Company
,
where
I
dined
the
other
day
,
I
do
not
know
anything
of
the
kind
that
is
prettier
.
”
“
The
dear
old
hall
!
”
murmured
Lady
Roehampton
.
In
time
,
though
no
one
mentioned
it
,
everybody
thought
that
if
an
alliance
ultimately
took
place
between
Lady
Roehampton
and
Mr.
Sidney
Wilton
,
it
would
be
the
most
natural
thing
in
the
world
,
and
everybody
would
approve
it
.
True
,
he
was
her
father’s
friend
,
and
much
her
senior
,
but
then
he
was
still
good-looking
,
very
clever
,
very
much
considered
,
and
lord
of
a
large
estate
,
and
at
any
rate
he
was
a
younger
man
than
her
late
husband
.
When
these
thoughts
became
more
rife
in
society
,
and
began
to
take
the
form
of
speech
,
the
year
was
getting
old
,
and
this
reminds
us
of
a
little
incident
which
took
place
many
months
previously
,
at
the
beginning
of
the
year
,
and
which
we
ought
to
record
.
Shortly
after
the
death
of
Lord
Roehampton
,
Prince
Florestan
called
one
morning
in
St.
James’
Square
.
He
said
he
would
not
ask
Lady
Roehampton
to
see
him
,
but
he
was
obliged
suddenly
to
leave
England
,
and
he
did
not
like
to
depart
without
personally
inquiring
after
her
.
He
left
a
letter
and
a
little
packet
.
And
the
letter
ran
thus
:
“
I
am
obliged
,
madam
,
to
leave
England
suddenly
,
and
it
is
probable
that
we
shall
never
meet
again
.
I
should
be
happy
if
I
had
your
prayers
!
This
little
jewel
enclosed
belonged
to
my
mother
,
the
Queen
Agrippina
.
She
told
me
that
I
was
never
to
part
with
it
,
except
to
somebody
I
loved
as
much
as
herself
.
There
is
only
one
person
in
the
world
to
whom
I
owe
affection
.
It
is
to
her
who
from
the
first
was
always
kind
to
me
,
and
who
,
through
dreary
years
of
danger
and
anxiety
,
has
been
the
charm
and
consolation
of
the
life
of
“
Florestan
.
”
CHAPTER
XVIII
On
the
evening
of
the
day
on
which
Prince
Florestan
personally
left
the
letter
with
Lady
Roehampton
,
he
quitted
London
with
the
Duke
of
St.
Angelo
and
his
aides-de-camp
,
and
,
embarking
in
his
steam
yacht
,
which
was
lying
at
Southampton
,
quitted
England
.
They
pursued
a
